| Show LIGHT THE SPORT LIGHT l 9 7 LAND QUANT-LAND Copyright lUll 1925 Ne New York Tors Tribune Inc TrademArk Registered V U B 8 8 r Patent te t Of fine tJoe Till 01 TIlE THE And now writes F 1 L you you fellows will ill III be In io ball hoing this Tunney thing thine- which Is pretty sure suro to be terrible Ill Iii ad- ad admIt admIt ad admit mit that tl the tle e Dempsey Wills thing would be bo no better No Jo one M ot of o tte the three h has s fought fou ht a II fool gool KOO man In three years years- Why try try to stir up a ahot lot hot of o public Interest that doesn't I exist 1 Our happy soWed correspondent seems to forget that any fight concerns the tho heavyweight ot of the tho ho wor world word d can ean take care of ot itself In the tho a way ay of Public Interest The Th Intimate details of o all con con- concerned concerned con concerned are arc not printed to ballyhoo occasion but because II a good many millions arc are Interested In a title that has grown crown to bo be b worth orth or more The public at large knows s what tho facts are Certainly enough has been printed about both fight ers And there Is no law compel compel- compel log Ing any Individual to Invest latest 2 or 50 30 In a ticket But V 1 L 1 should get eel It Into his bean that any heavyweight champ champ- champIonship championship championship melee where the th title Is at stake is still a 0 rather flashy public occasion from front one on ocean to another HOW 11 IT Ito Possibly 70 per cent of ot those In- In In Interviewed dont don't concede Tunney much of ot a chance I Yet when the two moo mon step Into the ring rine there will be no vacant seats In the th largest ball park inthe In lh the world worl Ther 1 There aIWas always Is the chance that somethIng will happen The rhe finan- finan financial finan financial cia cial I side aide alone with over 2000 2000 at stake has its dramatic value Firpo crude crud and clumsy n Ith little experience came cam within to a half breath of ot lugging the 2000 2000 frown Crown somo some miles away An And the tho th average fight fan sto to consider that Tunney Is a vastly vastly Improved box box- box boxer er r and since ho m mt t Carpen Carpentier tier tier lieI The Th average a fight fan of the average citizen doc nt have hav to consider this detail It Is Ii quite quit enough for him that the tho champion Is to appear Demp- Demp fy Demp-fy ray packed Madison Square Squar Gar Gar- Garden Garden Gar Garden den he packed Boles Boyles Boyle Acres and he packed the Polo Grounds where where the tho betting belting was 4 and and and- andS and to S Ii to to 1 In his favor and andY here andr-here Y where here few conceded his opponent cven cn a II flimsy in look I Tunney Tunny certainly Is conceded a chance chanc than Carpentier Brennon or Firpo had nad I f There r has been much c chirping back and fourth as to what op- op opponent op opponent or what opponents Man Man- Mandarin Mandarin darin darin- C C Pyle will dIg di up for Mile L Lenglen when she arrives And what location he nih will Ill find for his tennis tennis contests with the amateur courts all barred Soi Somo o time tim ago aco one might of oC saId that C C P Ie l was heading for a IL noisy smash Shut But some sonic time Ime ago aeo no one he- he be believed he would ever eYer vcr lure the th French champion Into profession profession- professionalism se It would be no great surprise to hoar hear that he h had signed up Senator Borah Vl Vice President VIce c Dawes or Babe Ruth as lS an 01 op opponent for his champion and t that at atho ho he had bad ar a od to build a tennis court In the Yalo Yale Bo Bowl Bost 1 or Mad Mad- MadIson Madison Madison ison Square Garden If It C C C Pyle has his and ay way ho has ha It so 50 far far- far there thero ther will willbe willbe be bc no amateurs left There Thero are aro not so many left as it Is ECONOMIC SOT NOT OT to If It an amateur wants to turn professional that i is his business or her business Tho The question Is economic no not moral This has been made the age ae of large gate eat receipts receipts- even for tor all amateur sports Whether a a star football player Lakes up coaching or goes In for professional play Is again arain a matter ot of economics s not of ot ethics Amateurs even though It Is often no fault of ot their own have hav been profiting f fin financially In- In a lY cla by bf their excellence at sport no matter maUer what business they took up There Is nothing unethical In MIle Lenglen or any else turnIng pro It the tho th desire desir Is there to todo todo todo do so The Tho Th main battle batti Is l to keep pro pro- pro few fese fes out of amateur ranks There Is little trouble where both 1 tand In the tho th pen The point Is that there Is not many who can can profit nver over flyer a long span ot of o years They may collect heavily for a Il short span but In Inthe Inthe the majority of o cases roses th average a man would be better oft at ot thirty thirty- thirty five of o forty If It ho he had left pro pro- professional professional pro professional sport alon alone and had built buill up business or occupation or trade I Not every pro Is n a Dempsey or ora II a Cobb or a 11 a Ruth Ruth or a Grange orI I There Ther was no such h rush In the theold theold I old days toward but In the tho th old days day there no such golden olden harvests So jo to b bo be reaped An almost endless flock of spectators has hai been built Ul In the thelast last ten years where crowds crowd rang rang- rangIng ne Ing from to are arc common affairs Interest In almost every variety ot of sport has been lifted to an amazing height It If the attendance at all eames ganies ever was wag added It I would run far tar be beyond yond ond the thc th mark And the tho mount amount of money tak taken n In from the th public would overflow hal halt bait f a II dozen ozen mints |
