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Show I BATTLERS QUIT I GRIN REPARTEE Fights Nowadays Lack Verba). Encounters So Eagerly Watched Old commercialism has crept into H the fight w ith -ikIi i i n' - cording to Jimmy Dunn, the man who discovered and developed Johnny K11-, bane, there Is n .onper any Interest- j H ing sidelight such as added a touch of romance to the sport some years ago. "It's a cut and dried business i proposition now, and even the ers have gotten entirely away fronii the personal stuff.' Dunn opines i Questioned further. Imnn cxpl.i : -I'-d his opinion 'In the old days," he be-, gan, "It was scarcely a real battte unleis there wis some repartee 1 tween the battlers befrr . during ir after the contest. The fnns wore al- ways looking for this anwle and theyv were rarely disappointed. Probably it Is alright the way it is but certainly cer-tainly the change ha robbed th sport !l of a lot of Its color." 1 EVERY MOVE WATCHED Dunn explained that today boxers I rarely meet before the con'e-r It's a plain unvarnished business agree-ment. agree-ment. The boys introduce! welghing-Sn time ii they have neve,-met neve,-met before, but there is no cc!a H if painfully f rmal to the scaling place, th? battlers ad-1 Hi. journ to a restaurant or chop house,' HJ J partake of a tender. Juicy steak '.hen' Hj retire until time to depart from ihsj not el for the an na. Hj ' in tn. old days there 1 n friendly greeting r a hienscing HB , grow) from ihe battlers It didn't HB matter which, the followers were in- terested and thej di ink in HJl and every move the main boutl HBj principals and figun-d it into the net. HB; !-esult of their pre. battle dopi-. Maii HK O fthctn withheld wagers until they Hb noted the condui t of the prim pals Hl -n the occasion of their first mcet-j h ing. i Dunn Is right Commercialism has I removed a lot of color from the sport J 1 'rim merclalism has also helped to up- I lift the sport, but It might have left I the little thrills. Take the visil Ol Ij Voung Cprbett to the dressing room of Terry McGovern, jusi before the I memorable Hartford mill wherein Mc- j Govern lost his crown and bis backers I lost a healthy wad of coin. Youap t f'orbctt's Insulting remarks to the i champion simply ignited the infltfm- j1 mable McGovern temper The rest Ii was easy. LAKKY BOB UPSET. Then take the visit of Flrz-aimmons T, to Jim Jeffries dressing room on the occasion of their memorable scrap at the Coney Island Athletb club. Fltz ' always maintained he visited the Call-1 J fornlan to dls'-uHs the rujAS, but lu 1 those close to Itinky Bol have always 1 declared Fltz made the visit to gle I Jeffries the up and down, j Fltr trlod to discuss rules with Jeff it is true, but the western novice wan Kruff and Indifferent Fltz, thinking ho could win Jef over playfully put I his arm about Jeff'n neck J fi heaved up on one shoulder, and Fltz ' was sent reeling Into the corner of I the dressing room That Is supposed to have been the Incident that result td in the downfall of Fltz, because It H 1 was at that moment Fit, got his flrt i trlea of the gigantic strength of the j 'allfornlan. Fltz was not afraid of H .lefferles. but the incident Impressed Hj I him with the power he was going to j combat and his mind was Immediate J, ly confused. He was powerless 1o put I into operation the plans he had j mapped out. That Incident was I noised about and it tipped the wise ones, because Fltz was affected by it to a marked degree. j Dunn was right Such Incidents to- I day would be catalogued as unwar- j; I ranted manifestations f roughness. -. ' I There would be no pre-battle discus- 'ion of the rul"s They arc discussed in the rnv Mifh of the romance has been loet tn the rush for business ' efficiency . |