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Show How muCh longer will the public stand for Its boxing champions to keep their titles wrapped In the napkin of the ho-decislon fichts? Two recent defeats administered to the bantam champion, I'ete Herman, b Joe Burman and Jack Sharkey, respectively, re-spectively, put the subject In drytWick for the ringside customers to gase upon. No sport can succeed unless i: la . on the up-and-up and above board in all Its phases. No-dccislon fights don't hase this flaxor. People do ( not mind seeing champions make a little stack of dollars out of theh titles but they don't like to see the things I over-worked. A champion, who can't defend his title every tl mehe enters the ring Isn't a real champion in his division. , He is a poser He is working the t 1 1 r ; for a craft. Leonard. Kllbane, Wilson md Herman Her-man how long do ou suppose they would hold their titles if they hoxed 1 decision fights'.' The only fellows they'll box with a referee's decision attached are sure things, whom the? themselves name Then they hog-tie their opponents by weight itlpulatlona and other matters to safeguard their meal ticket the title I Jack Dempsey Is about the only champion who isn't afraid to lake a chance. He comes under the same Lclase ef ( hamplona as Man O War and 1 Babe Ruth Thr-ir positions are serai se-rai pe, Dempsey packs his decisions In 1 his fist. That's where alj champs are Supposed to hae the goods j ball panics decided by the scribes or How would you like to have your the umpires In the newspapers the day following Ihe game? This comparison may be a bit far-fetched, but the principle prin-ciple Is the same It's lead pipes to Nlsmy that you'd soon lose interest in the greatest game on earth. Cold feet and a real champion shouldn't be bedfellovs. hut most of 1 the present title-holders are as thick with tfco hoof Icebergs as grasshoppers grasshop-pers In Kansas. |