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Show VOTE OF SPORTSMEN ELECTS GOTHAM GOVERNOR Enough "Boxing Votei" in New York to Hold Balance of Power, Floto Says By Otto Floto JOE MULVIHILL of Danhury, Conn.. Is even. Joe la the fellow fel-low who had Dempeey and Fulton Ful-ton all algned up to battle on tha Fourth of July last. In tha hat center or America. But a cog slipped somewhere some-where and the bout failed to materialise. material-ise. Joe began an Investigation and soon learned that petty politic, aided nu abetted by Judge Cunningham f Danbury, were at tha bottom of h's trouble. Tha tight wsa called off and Joe laid hi plan for future action. Time rolled around and Judge Cun. 1 iM-hai. .b- - i. n n I mf I ii-wl mm judge of the probate court. Mulvlhlll made hay while the aun waa ahlnlng. He made a personal campaign among the Danhury folk. He went among those fond of sport: he financed all expenses of the campaign to re'l-e Judge Cunningham and. teach ether meddlers a lesson. . What's more, he succeeded. Judge Cunningham waa snowed undsr, while the rest of his ticket want In with flying colors. Ws received a letter from Mulvlhlll this morning. In which Mulvlhlll says: "Cunningham played petty politic with me. The Fulton-Dempaey bout meant a lot to Danbury and a lot to me aa well, ft would have put Dan-bury Dan-bury en the map aa no other event not even a fair would have done. It was always a mystery why Cunningham Cunning-ham etopped tha fight when Danbury had ao much at atake. I laid low. aaid nothing, but went loaded for bear all the time after that. I made up my mind to get Cunningham's, scalp and ' how wall I succeeded the election re I turn chow. The Sams thing can be I done everywhere if a real fight la made, because the average man haa Plenty of red blood In hie velna. He won't corse out and publicly express himself, maybe, because that In some I Instance would be Indiscreet, but hell 1 ge Into the election booth and scratch In secret If you'll call hie attention to thoee who opposed boxing." Whitman, late governor ef New' Tork. la another whom the votes of boxing enthualaata managed to alay. in New Tork to hold the balance of power, and when tha boy a around Buffalo Buf-falo and ' Syracuse got buay and scratched Whitman they managed to take enough votea away from him to allow Al Smith, a real fellow, to allp In by a small majority. All the Republican Re-publican ticket waa elected with the exception of Whitman, and you can ge and bet that vote ef thoee who favor boxing cut quite a figure In the results. re-sults. If boxing enthusiast wilt stsnd together they'll com into their wn every time. Of course, wa a.-e not In favor of allowing al-lowing boxing to run wild and unrestricted. unre-stricted. But with the proper safe-guard safe-guard (urroundlng ths sport It Is on of the grandest pastime, the world ever knew. Our eoldlar and sailor, when they return, will tall you about It They'll enllat on lta aide and da. ma nt the same privileges at home they enjoyed abroad while offering their lives In the big fight for humanity that haa just been won. |