Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-25 | Page 4 | Detroiter Boomed to Referee Big Fight

BOOMED TO REFEREE BIG FIGHT i Rooks Has Officiated in More Than 2000 v Battles DETROIT D April 25 Detroit Detroit L- L boxing fans are booming Billy Rooks as a referee for the coming Dempsey Carpentier match match Rooks has refereed more than 2000 fights lie He has handled over boxers In the ring PICKS G- G GANS S. S Of Ot all the lighters he has worked with he ho picks pIcks' Joe Gans as the great great- est cst great I lie Ite had the punch the heart and the head says saS Rooks 1 There was no no dancing when Gans Cans was in the ring He hit from where he held his hands and he moved only to avoid a punch COMPARES lUS IL I doubt if it Benny Leonard could coui have havo beaten Gans when whon he was going They fight differently Leonard L dances He lie hits Just as hard no nn doubt Leonard steps around looking for an opening which would have hav counted against him in the old days das of ot longer fights Gans Cans achieved the same thing as at Leonard by merely sliding back orOne on or one foot or else lse turning his haid hald or raising one shoulder DEMANDS IS ACTION ACTIO I follow one principle I In ii referee- referee Ing The to see action I try to handle boxers from that view view- point Rooks was mentioned as a a. possible referee for the Dempsey Dempsey- Dempsey Willard Villard fight at Toledo but lost out when Ohio In Insisted insisted In in- on an Ohio man