Show 4 BILLY EV EVANS ANS SAYS Safety-First Safety Champion Making J Joke oke of Referee Boxing Game Suffers Lacks Directing Head 4 Once a fighter wins Ins ft n champion nhip ship he IU puts buts the th title In camphor balls He H makes mak s It Ita ita Ita a to shun states In which decision outs are Irp staged stared When hen II a championship contest is 1 I sug- sug suggested suggested suc-ested suc In which thol theme I In Is a s possibility possibility of ot the till title changing handsh hands he seeks to safeguard himself by bv insisting on his Q own n referee S S S Sot Not t ot mar more morr than ten years year back baek the champions did not pursue the s fety first tactics that ar are now In vogue In those there days It t take k a 0 purse purse- o ot of 50 or more to lure a champion Into the ring ring- with Ith witha It a ral eon contender tender Those Thoe were the day days w when hen the title holder holden were ere lIng l w tiling to take a chance chanc were real fighting men Now when a 8 tighter fighter wins vins a ft title till he h Immediately be- be becomes b come comes contes a 0 business man He seeks sek to get all the money and Insists he I shall hall he be b permitted to select his 0 oni n refereeS referee S S 1 T lii la doing more more- to hurt the boxing game than the tho th custom adopted by many champions ot of earr InK theli own ec It I is isan Ifan an easy ca y mattel matti to ap how how a II champlan champion cham- cham plan pion would not care to risk his ti- ti title titie tie tle lIh w ith come om am Incompetent referee presiding However Ho It I Is always possible to arbitrate a difference rence over the referee It if ono one on exists Some SomA state boxing commission could make mak the thi selection or It toe he b put lut up to a II group croup of reputable ble newspaper men to set set- settie tie l-tie tie the tho th dispute S S C This thing of ot a champion Insist Insist-Ing Ing that h he be permitted to name I the referee simply because b cause he h Is the champion Is all wrong There Is nothing sportsmanlike In such uch tactics It It at once one makes a 8 bout eem seem a sure thing thine affair rather father than x Jl real contest It Is a 8 bad thing for tor the game came and the sooner the th promoters promoter staging championship bouts bout realize It and on having some om a say nav v In the I el the better It will be for forthe forthe forthe the game came S S C The rhe boxing game came has developed Into big bl business It la is to be re- re r that better botter supervision and administration seems Impossible Boxing should hould hae ha ha e a governing head bike baseball and In each state whore boxing Is legalized his word ord should hould be final In all matte matters It come to that If boxing Is to continue to make proper progress pro resIn In the sport aport world orld I 00 |