| Show yS Bt I j i iBy B Steve Ste e S ANOTHER BLACK EYE S the work of one or two f fellows possibly three the f 11 II bo boxing boding hH gain gaii got another nother black eye in In Utah on Friday night Jim Tim D fiasco the twelve round bout between Battling S Ortega of Oakland and Gordon McKay l o of Ogden was responsible for the entire affair i fair I a S Managers J boxers promoters backers friends and everybody connected with the entire affair are arc running around in little cir circles trying ing to to convince everybody bod either that the affair was all aU right the public was all wrong wrong or 01 that i it was was the other fellows fellow's s fault S This much we do know The Thc fight fighters rs didn't play fair and gi give e eth th the fans fan what their tickets called for They even attempt to make a showing They hey insulted th the intelligence of their audience audi audi- enc ence with their miserable work They just weren't on the level A The Thc pr promotion of the affair was also unsatisfactory What i is hard bard to tell since nce Jim Downing of Ogden who was r. r Responsible for or the affair was highly successful with a series of I bouts several weeks ago when McKay met Al Sommers This time everything v ryU ing went wrong Perhaps it was hard luck but most likely it was vas si sins of omission I Th rh The management failed to make the the boxers post an appearance forfeit Downing allowed or was party to a last minute switch froma from decision a d bo bout t to a no-decision no bout This was was directly unfair to the fans who paid to see a decision bout Al a big fat kid entirely out of condi condition fon was sent in fn to box Ed Shepard That was another joke S fj- fj But thereL is no use of rehashing the entire affair again I to It was terrible It left a taste which still sickens It was the j t disgusting affair that we have ever witnessed JO But J But let us forget the entire affair The quicker it passes into I the book the better Then we can look forward to better things in the in-the the thc boxing world J w IT COU COULD D BE DONE I OLF has bo grown wIt with sufficient nl rapidity In tn the intermountain West to 10 e. e become recognized as one on of or this sections section's greatest sports To that end those Interested in the tho game game should fO foster faster er any movement that will tend to promote the best interests of or tho game gam or At t t present U there tere ere Is nothing being done dono between the Dakotas and the Pacific coast to arouse or hold hotd th the interest of tho the golf golt devotees An TAn excellent move for tor those thosa prominent in the oi Pi game would be the tho inauguration ration of ot an open championship tourney taking In the golfers ot of Co Colorado 0 Utah Idaho and Nevada The affair affair- would not b be difficult to arrange The Thc tourney If it held heldon on the plan of ot other sectional championships could be developed into ono one of or the prominent golfing events of or the country comparable com corn parable to the tourne tourney the Southwest tourney and other othe sectional meets Tho The first attempt pt pf course would not bo be such a winner but interest in such luch Uth a a. meet meat would develop rapId rapidly I S There is Js a a. good chance for tor some somo of at tho the clubs to start S something There are several clubs in Denver including a municipal course course There are other clubs throughout Colorado four tour In Utah a couple in Wyo Wyo- mt ming g and A R. number in n Idaho There is scarcely any doubt but that the tho eye nt nt wo would ld be a success tr from m the first gun iun 2 4 While none of ot the tho clubs in this section are aro members of ot the tho United States Golf Gott i association lon Bome some of ot t them em will undoubted undoubtedly Join very cry soon Should they Join tho the event could be made Into one of or the authorized champl cham cham- pl events of ot the country S Among mong the local clubs the Country club is the logical club to start I such a move nove for tor sectional championship matches should l that organization d lI r to handle the affair It has the right of ot seniority However should W We jis Country club not care to handle such a a. meet meetS some of ot the other clubs could take 1 it t up 5 S Ed d Shepard would never be able to b beat at Gordon McKay He nt It t run that fast S e 0 rt S' S The middleweights seem t to be doing well lately First there was as the Johnny Wilson-Bryan Wilson Downey jangle and now comes Bat Ortega and an and Gordon McKay I ron MORE ABOUT BAT a Oakland isn isn't t a at all happy over over the fact act th that t Bat at J- J Ortega comes from that city The foll following is 18 a clipping from a s 's story ory by Bob Shand which appears in the thc Oakland Oaklan Tribune It is is in in reference to the recent split between Tommy Simpson and the Mexican battler hJ has h had had hi his hs troubles trouble with fighters and grid remained S still They y have thrown the 5 M j T j er well-known well harpoon into tho the West and he h has s never squawked When Bat Rat on him Tommy m had hd nothing g to to say and Ortega ran out with out referring to his split with Jimmy Duffy he 8 simply explained there had been misunderstand misunderstand- fly Ing ng It la Is some somo time now since Ortega and a misunderstand misunderstand- Simpson parted company company com- com pany and T. T S. S wishes the Battler nothing but luck pinned BUT down to a straight answer to a 11 straight that hat Ortega ii i. bout about through that he does docs Tommy question admits not care whether or r loses losea and that Jie ho flopped to Littleton ho he wins t That Littleton fight was was' always something of a mystery to the Battler local friends The middleweights were not making a custom f bowling over the Oakland bOY and ho was licking the best in the country before he got careless Littleton was unknown and Ortega had b been pretty much of an en promised a match with Champion U Johnny Wilson if ho- ho won after You the h hlA fight lA took a flop didn't y you said id S' S Simpson to t. the Battler What if I did two of my teeth and Simpson I says Ortega replied He knocked out was not going to fa a fun of tho thing get all beat up just for the M 4 himself Ortega and made another nothing for Simpson by not getting up He lost a bet for i 01 In his hI last four starts Ortega has and dropped out of the the other three on fouls been knocked out once and lost Battlers Battler's Dizzy recent from battles b taking em m is is Simpsons Simpson's lac laconic explanation of the S |
