Show FEW RING 1 Cannot Toll Ten Seco a Properly Willard Long Cc By Otto Floto FIola J I 1 I ANSAS CITY Dec 23 Ho II I KANbAS TK referees can toll toU of off the I ond and mass over a prostrate J JI a form correctly 7 in a hundred We Ve know for we J i I them try time and again Han 3 Many ring arbiters can take out their A I and come conic pretty close to accompli the feat when theres there's s nothing at But get them Into the ring amp excitement and tumult and see ho how hov It works Some of them them too fast and crowd second after sj sS unto Into the allotted period the rules ca call callOn On the other hand you hear the j handle count and stretch the O of often often ten ticks of the clock Into fifteen fifteen Continued on pa page e 3 3 I 1 FEW COMPETENT I I Continued from page pase 2 twenty swings of ot the pendulum Hardly any two men count alike and th the referee referee ref ref- if 11 he Is II inexperienced or so 10 disposed disposed dis dis- posed can hand you OU the quick or short count or h he may let et you ou have the long and dreary count thereby saving or gIVIng giving ing away reputations of the fighters fighter To my rny mind the old da days In California were about right for they employed the method of oC allowing the timekeeper to 10 toll toil off the seconds No sooner had a aman titan man hit the canvas than George HardIng Hard Hard- lug Ing jumped to so his hll feet and began liard-I liard to count The referee kept his eye on 1 the he official count coun t and acted accordingly There wasn't a chance for tor Harding to tobe be ite wrong wrung for Cor he held and looked upon hl ills hi watch in his left lert hand while lt he motioned mo mo- honed up and down with his hit right arm ann It was an atm absolute and correct count each principal All referees do their best beat and mean wt-ll wt but hut how few are correct In III this re- re aped That Thu Thais Thai's 1 s 's s wh why they should be re relieved relieved re- re re-I re from fromn rendering the count The second day after the Dempsey Willard-Dempsey bout at it Toledo we were given a peek at atthe atthe the mavin moving mo pIctures J taken of 01 the event Whit What we wo noticed particularly particular was the thet t or third knockdown Willard sustained atm sus l The pictures show Ih the referee walli walking ng clear across the ring begore ore h he began to count over the disheveled dis Willard who was in III a sitting po- po altion In a a corner holding onto the ropes and anti who did Just manage to 10 gain his feet at the time count of nine aine J This or was not Int n rial on the tart part of DC but he lost fully Culb six seconds walking to where Willard lay A timekeeper with authority to 10 count would have ha jumped to his feet the moment mo mo- ment Willard went down and began his official count This would have meant victory right there anti and then for Demp- Demp KC He any In less than a It round and thousands of f dollars dollari lost on a Dempsey victory victor In one Jill round would have been won instead We v still maintain the folks who bet bel that thai would win in III a round really y won their wagers on two occasions but un- un circumstances because of oC amateur ama ama- eliI officials at tho the ringside deprived him of that triumph I May Mav we wt sll suggest st g to the patrons of oC the I new 11 International Sporting club which inns 1111 to place Educe boxing on a high plane platte i i It t all in official timekeeper do the count- count I og |