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Show liEGLER " ; Seen It By Weslbrook Pegler Kdratrd by WNU Feature. AS SOME OF US RECALL. FranJ S. Hogan. the district attorney m New York county, slipped on gas mask, popped his head in the dooi at the recent annual dinner of th New York boxing writers, reiteratec his low opinion of the fight racket and popped out again. Eddie Eagan, chairman of the prizefight commission, is an ole Olympic and Intercollegiate heavy weight champion and a former as sistant to the U. S. attorney in New York. He ran a temper and sassed Hogan back. He said that if Hugan knew so much evil about the prizefight prize-fight racket, the thing for him to do was prosecute. Superficially that was rather well put and some of the leading lead-ing journalists on this seamy run took their pitch from Eagan and ave Hogan another going-over. As a group, with Individual exceptions, ex-ceptions, the boxing writers have been down on Hogan for about a year since he turned up some corruption cor-ruption that they should have known about and started the expose ex-pose of the sorry army career and police record of Rocky Grazlano, the present middleweight champion. cham-pion. Grazlano Is now a king without with-out a country, for after he won the title In Chicago writs of banishment banish-ment were Issued In many Jurisdictions Juris-dictions because he was a bad soldier. sol-dier. Before the expose fully broke, Eagan argued with sweet and genuine genu-ine charity that society could be big enough to waive his past and let Craziano gather the rewards of his talents and opportunity. HE IS A GOOD POY SCOUT LEADER AND WOULD BE A GOOD PAROLE OFFICER BUT HE IS NO WAN FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE BOXING COMMISSION IN NEW YORK BECAUSE IT WOULD BE HARD TO IMAGINE A FELLOW FEL-LOW AS NAIVE AND IGNORANT OF ALL THAT GOES ON AROUND HIM AS EAGAN. When he snapped Hogan back that Hogan is ought to prosecute in- Too Smart 8tKeadf of J"st talki"g about crookedness he was leading with his chin because his job as chairman of the commission com-mission includes the duty of knowing know-ing what's what and keeping crooks Dut. This he can do by the arbitrary powers given him by the legislature. But by his instinctive and perhaps political reaction to Hogan's charges ie let Hogan maneuver him onto the ide of the rogues and put him In opposition to law, order and the good society which he is sworn to uphold. The Journalese reaction pro-Eagan pro-Eagan and antl-IIogan aroused a virtuous resentment In the D. A. He had his suspicions of some of the writers' motives, Judged by their congenial association with the vermin of the racket. To be sure, a writer of boxing should know the personalities of the business and their home phone numbers for emergencies. Bu he needn't have social truck with them and If he dues he can' complain when others form a certain opinion of hlra. Some time after this episode, Irv-rm Irv-rm Cohen, one of a triumvirate hich operates Graziano as a property, prop-erty, discovered that his name nad seen forged to a check for $320, apparently ap-parently by someone familiar with lis office. Cohen said "Oh well, ;nsy go," in the philosophical way of a fellow who is insured against such -noral error by fiduciaries, and the jonding company made him whole ind started its routine inquiry. In .his process, Cohen was asked to qive samples of the handwriting of ill persons In his professional, as it Acre, household for comparison with '.he writing on the check. Almost all of the New York writers writ-ers on the pritefight run are on this list, together with these little figures, fig-ures, and these individuals have been allowed to hear the news, Indirectly. In-directly. It would be presumptuous presumptu-ous to peer Into Hogan's mind and say that he Is enjoying the situation, situa-tion, but since when bas presumption presump-tion been felonious? Donald Day, who Thit lived in Europe many p years after World T War 1, has been de irvnmn uncd by the Ampr :ans in Germany where he was picked up after the collapse In 1945. He seems to have been suspected f collaboration on the ground that ie didn't come home when he could lave. Another exile In a similar fix, Robert Best, has been brought back ind accused of treason, which turns ut to be a charge more easily made 'Jinn to stick. 1 could tell Best's Jury that I believed be-lieved he was spying on the Amer-can Amer-can and British correspondents in Vienna, where he lived, a dissolute gigolo, and, In the light of later do relopments, that he probably was informing in-forming the Austrian Nazis on his colleagues who spoke freely on the issumptlon that their little conversations conversa-tions were a family affair. The other Americans who later were Interned with him In Germany intU the change could be arranged and saw aim Jump ship In Lisbon to rtturn . !o Germany may have some tvl-ience |