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1 i ' | EFEREES ALWAYS REGARDED AS SOLE ARBITER IN RING Cleveland Commission Accepted Gardner as Third Man in Wilson Bout and Should Be Held Responsible for His Decision— Verdict of Foul Should Have Beén Accepted, Middleweights Orderes Rematched and All Controversy Forestalled. By Vincent Treanor. | MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OHNNY WILSON js still: middle- spite the unsatisfactory ending of WONTON, duly” He—Souuny his bout with Bryan Downey at) yo ye asin x ddl Cleveland jast Wednesday might. If) weight boxing champion, #0 far as he ien't, then all the rules and regu) 1h.” Massachusetts Boxing Com jations of boxing as written by the| 7 a fate Marquis of Queensberry and re-| Mssion Is concerned. § The d cision of Referee Jimmy Gardne THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 30, ROWNING DOWNEY CHAMPION VIOLATES ALL RULES OF BOXIN 1921, |THE WEEK-END (IN YEARS PAST) 1921, by the Press Publ'ghing Co. (The New York Evening World), 4 CANNOT TELL A LIE-1 WITH MAY LITTRE / Bur, sie, THe TROOPS ARE READY TO ue ND wi WELL; LETS bo WASHINGTON WouLONT HAVE BEEN & SCINTILLATING arded ay almost gospel in the sport- Swaeyiath Ps iNg world are wortniess and have| (Pat Bryan Downey struck Wiloon been for all these many years. If @) of their Hout at Cleveland Wed- Boxing Commission can arbitrarily) iciny night will be recognized eee ee te aay. Oa aes | by the commission in this State, it had floored Wilson three times and Ff oMelally announced. | In to. after the referee had declared the) GiIE {0 aeoryy tne aetian a champion a winner on a foul, then | ie eee crerme's award, the the referce ceases to be the all im-| yee ite Commicsion. hold portant @fficial which rules have al-) NG: t retee Deval ike ways mae liim in the past, Indeed. at the ty Labo LL es he is & powetlens figursheed, jority. Mis appointment by the Up. to Wednesday night's’ mix-up Ole Cominission, Commiss\one at Cleveland boxing rules regarded, Mugene U. Buckley of Massachn- THR Sarcrna aa: wits declared, carried with it “The chief official of contests, who Supreme control over the contest shall have general superv Martin Killilea, manager of Wil bouts,” with pow such as: gon, added to-d. statements ‘To stop a bout or contest at of last night tl SAS RISD EE stage and make a decision if he can- a formal statement of ui siders it one-sided, dents: mnected with the “To stop a bout or contest if he| Clevelend bout, He alleged th considers the competitors are not in| a deliberate attempt was mad earnest, dc. rob Wilson of the title The referee shall decide = = tions arising during a conte: are not epecified in the rules.” The foregoing excerpts are intended | to convey the idea that the reteree | {ne flee had Be s the wholé works in any bout after ;oy°nUys Hf Guides ad heen on th it begins and so he has been regarded |!°C) sao, wherever bouts are contested under) wig jay rules, 4 Frank Moran, for instance, neve would have be red to get inte the ring with Bob Martin, as he dad is one of those enihusiasts boxing and hus en interested im iis uplift, | He hos agreed to undertake his new duties ay not be straight |) risk of neglecting: his own business, HE referee n or honest, but if he isn't, that | é will accept no pry ees HH work is the chance the public la'tak- | 16 “Vaotitiee connect) with thei ing. As a vule referees are sbonest,| hointment, becatse Ciuider Isn't and if they are accepted by a com-| potitician and would be a long whi mission whose duty it is to protect | ¢ the public, as) Jimmy Gardner, \¢; Wednesday night's official, was, the chief interest Is to governing body 1s bound to honor hia! gid sport on its highest leve ratings and decisions, If they are | wrong the commission should be held! Cleveland — Comm responsible. Other Noarda Downey tn There is no doubt that Gardner) GLmvELAND, «July waa Wilson's own referee, imported |jand Boxing Commission it prepa from Boston to protect the champion's|\t'\,ment to he ant. to all State. Hox interests, and to guard him against AL IEU ATED Goan Sax attempts to put something over on) imé Commissions and ¢ eRe him on behaif of a local pride such ay Ix Commission to-day, reversing Downey is in Cleveland. These fact the decision of Referee Jimmy Gardner cannot be denied, but no one but a of Boston and giving the middleweixh! hoxing commission of the local option championship of the world to Brya: variety, not one that is legalized, but Downey of Clevelan!, J. B. Wilby instead simpiy tolerated, would at- ging. of the ¢ tempt to cast rules aside and be- ing ( smirch the reputation of a heretofore In honest man for the sake of a local Gardr nnny Wilson of Boston, ; the champion, the decision on a ‘foul’ celebrity, as Sune tn ente cane: in the seventh round, .laiming Downey struck W while ‘the champion was [ the Cleveland Commissioners were down, following two previous knock recognizing one. In appointin r, Chairman Muldoon shows that the good dow good sports they would have ac- The jocal Boxing Conn! cepted Gardn decision, and Gardner's decision on thn, at = tw ny Rocording the oMcia then seen that Wilson and Downey Wilson was down for 134-5 seconds on were rematched. ‘the first knockdown in the seventh The New York Commission has said round and for Il eeconds in the se, ond, it would respect the ruling of the while Gardner counted only nine on Cleveland body in the matter, but (ach dccasion; that Downey did not hit this Bounds like snap judgment in a \V8qt while the champion was down very important situation, It places was by Martin Killilea, manager of the Empire State Boxing Governors Wilson, when he placed ls hand on his in @ position former commisston boxer while the latter was down in the | refused to take when the so-called seventh round. Fallowing protests growing cut of the National Boxing Association was in \fyilloming » cee. oe Vere ore * 17 Wilson-Dow bout. Mayor 8 imation here, Seana Wilson may or may not be a real "The next time any general protest tampion, Personally we have re- 's made against the way box! rded him as poor excuse for a matches are conducted here, | will pi iddleweight title holder, but that Mitt further bouts.” t the issue here. The question is.) he or was he not fouled by Down- y as Referee Gardner said he was The referee, in the best possible posi- tion to see what happened, was the sole arbiter and his word should be tinal. ion reve und t By Thornton Fisher. HE life of a champion of any I class isn't all milk and honey | THE POOR NUT. these dass. Traps are set for We were slipping oe! them ail over the country and schemcs bistening to old twice: told t tre concocted to rob them of their Putlor yarns and others too titles, It is for these reasons that Just like strangers gen'liy de mart managers recently adopted the every topic we discussed ule of bringing their own refewes My Volstead we all cussed with them away from the home town. ‘Turiff, taxes, Prohibition Not because they want any the bet- ‘tn a yocul exhibition, er of St, but simply to see that they | are not made the victims of double- Prices, cost and poor product crogsing, quick counts, fouls, betting me tax and its reduction oups and th e. Every locality “here boxing is permitted has a local Just as strangers gen'lly do. ampion, and what the home foik wouldn't do to put him on the top of OM we sped by town and station, © heap in many instances ten't, Dopin' how to save the Nation worth trying, | From the Ce Our own Benny Leonard has iad| Ruled to-day by Ivory patos many worrisome experiences away’! yw ; : : from home, and so has Welter Cham. | We, ad silenced war's red gun And began to talk of fun Baseball, tennis, current feghts | Uppercuts and nasty rights pion Jack Britton, Mike O'Dowd to his day claims he was “rolybed” of | iis title when the referee in Boston decided against him and in favor of smith could pick the pennant bunch, | He sure wa Wilson, Br | Brown it was who h ‘ Downey may be Wilson's master! On Rugle Eve for aud probably is. He wouldn't have| Fact. he had the ol © be a wonder to prove it, but by all | da hunch w, “info.” ng precedent, rules and customs he! But one among us never stirred, # no legal cinim on the Hoston-| We couldn't amputate a word; * honors yet. A champion is a) He only sat and puffed away hasnpion until he is knocked out in With not a @ingle thing to say @ judgment of a referee, and not| fa boxing commission He gave us ne — As tank and vill r once the eye © hasenrd by. According to the timek Downey kno in Cleveland the other night. Accord Muldoon has just appointed Jim Guilder as chief inspec Guider, who ig well known in New York and throughout the country, was a good hoxer himself in his day, and now. Still champion, This change of (1m engaged as a physical culturist in this th city, is the first man to accept the position. His duties will be to ae that principals enguged in important z bouts in } York are in condition fieht Tes to do their best. He will visit n training and note thetr various stages of thelr reparation for contests. Two years azo we siz gested lo Goy, Smith's original Box!n pg is confusing: The mo oO ar was drivin ond epilied Tex and the whole int & position was necessary, From time to time men have ap- ternational Sporting with vacate” notice. Tex has listed u peared in the ring unfit with the result + that they femished a exhibition, domobile accidents in she Gane cate-| we rout the “good oid day! mae lame arco rT ye Tew You WHAT Les DO-LES MAKE IT A DOLLAR & Hove AMO *~D OM CAN YOU PICTURE THE GREAT GENERAL GRANT AS A GOLFER? BENS FRAKKUN! (wo SAID "WASTE NOT- WANT WoT” - By Thornton Fisher | WN PLAY EXPECT n MAKE DEBU: ==— _INPRES 5 GETAWAY Racegoers’ Interest To- “Day, Centred in Appearance or: Man O' War’s Full Brothet, My Play, full brother of Man War, pride of the Xalapa-Lexinatos Stable confederacy, hope of T Kimball Patterson, delicht of hig | breeder, Major August Belmont. i | scheduled to make his first apes Tos, ance under colors at Empire Gily; (alae afternoon. ‘ To witness that performance there will be the usual horde of vity-bound) racing lovers taking their tinal view, jot the thoroughbred for (1 nth of August, “packing in a supply,” ther will be the breeding students wha ve~ gard the union of Fair Play and Mas jhubah, the coit’s sire and dam, the greatest that has ever been wecoms plished—because of the colts big brother, and there will be othare. the pessimists, who Will not be disap- pointed if he fails to make goad oniy tor the justification it wil provide their beliet that Man O° War is: the horse of the century. These latter i® vil] be difficult to convince, avem if My Play shows indications of the speed or courage his brother possessed and won tbem with—they have set their idol on a pinnacle, and thes resent the prospect of any oth horse's sharing it with him, theim Man O' W. ABOUT FISH AND FISHERMEN OR PATRICIE HENRY (WHO SAID “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH”) ENTHUSING OVER THE GAME THESE DANS. ENJOYING THE Gare Scientific End of Baseball Decreased by Heavy Hitting Very Little Inside Stuff Used in Games of To-Day—-Not Like: Staged Real Contesis—Team With the Hardest Pui.ch 11 Present Matches Usually Wins. | By Robert Bond, ; CONDITIONS ANNOUNCED FOR NATIONAL AMATEUR GOLF TOURNEY SEPT. 17-24 The twenty- championship States will amateur olf {LIV be held at the St. Country Club, according to the plans an- to-day by the Association. conditions of the play for the championship call for a prelimi- nary qualifying round at eighteen holes on Saturday. Sept. best sixty-four scores and ties to continue Monday in a thirty-six- hole medal round, Old Times. When Pitchers used years ago it Was not the in- in which the nthe diselns of the list few ye ure of reeords vill start on Tuesday at 9 ofclock. and will run through: until Friday, when the semi-final round will be played. The match will be at thirty-six hole: e final for the championshio will be played on Saturday, Sept. 26, beginning at 10.30 o'clock. , in 3 06 TAT 8 By Neal R. O'Hara. (Wustera standard time. Add ene Coprriamt, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) nour for daylight saving time.) Only @ few more weehs now before the A’s are mathematically _— vertain of eighth place. . The Weather Man promises local . 5 a showers for to-day. Football season starts two months hence. Coaches’ only worry , that there won't he @ shortage of oheer leaders Midweek fishing off shore wee not- Boston fans are wild about the Braves, But just a year agy ite | satisfactory, the eenbass and po! Hostonese were betting that Ponzi would make good, too so plentiful at the Klondike last week,' . . could not be found. Carpentier is France's greatest idol, proving that och picked the & wrong end of the fight business. | Frank P. Hilton and Stuart ‘hatha Harvard gny that can : ine for feet weuld ' j went, to) the atlondines Chpkesey, Sil vard guy that can broad jump for 25 teet weuld be a tough | "eRh [Ot ‘ bind to keep off a moving wat the Giralda.and got little else bap beg ( eee pleasant sail. Less than twenty } valand Box- | stubborn defense, on Wedneaday night | og minus clever st interesting and the ni national game has always been looked won't shencugh to keep bull players out of vacdieville this winter Cravath bit sim the Na ; init of Lawrenco in the service Including t cost Tex Ricard $1,000.97 tu ‘ing the fight of tne United States Fish Commis- Rin Reprn nl Ets MT NEW OPI on, gave an interesting talk on sci- Fistic News and Gossip d out twenty-nine Series. And one good spree was abont all Joe's share of the ewag | cebergs, &c could buy at that ttme. art of pitehing suffered nt that it is ac ed with fifty sacrifice By William E. Simmons. HIGH WATER. ody Hook. Gov Inland. Heli vaca, MAM. P. FE WIRES if would be a more fascinating game if the spectators in the were taken on the boat all day, The y could oniy sit down Evelyn seemed to do a little better. } son for the actors. but our only sviy is that | Ata meeting of the United Anglers | ague last Thursday evening,’ Mr, Nightingale, who had been up to the Ths is a tough s entific studies of fish life, ill 19 World's by phi strated. tographs of Northern scenery, Joe Jackson said he had “one good spree” after ___| The Honest Plumbers’ Fishing Clue en and Young of By John Pollock: hot compare idle Collins led Miss Browne Meets Marie Wagner | deat Chatiee P. Seddon diauneicnedd Gene Tunney light heavyweight, the pomular west side s taken off ton had twenty-eight © records of 1919 in the National Dyekman Oval now weighs 178 pounds ing at Scobeyville, N Augie Ratner, Earns Right to Play for New| witless vollying, captured the set. |denberg and Mr. White. Yor who fights Mike Gib- is working shits Joe Gedeon | with Tunney ISS MARY K. BROWNE, by her | tific sm 40. That same year Will battle at New Orleans on Monday night Roth stole 24, on Mike MeTigue, the peominent Trish | » did this gent utter, snd mentioned in the figal round of the New York | treat, a State Championships on the Crescent MeTigue ahd get. the 5 hitters were 34, with Zeb" base stealing he leaped to life, | right to meet Miss S dowand by the New Jersey clubs and explana to box Benny Cohen a re more weeks this season, unwound just slike each one of ue The mad impul | ow him out the door for luck. Jersey City nas prac Charley Pitts next month, Ie aigued him up io batt! the following unprecedented | | hitting: is revealed: In the American League Ruth That rea} good welterweight of Tilivabeth. N. J the challenge round to-di uted by Miss Browne would have eR ter aropping the first set at 6—2,; Riven the great Mlle. Lengin som Coon: Over Devrer: 4 ig ie fats ‘|thing to think about, had she been| Jimmy Cooney, the Harlein featier- |Miss Rrowne fought her way to ! present, ‘The little coast girl, defy ng weight. won the judges’ decision «: | well-earned victory over her sister|the rain by playing hout a hat, (irish Jimmy Dwyer at the Palace a lealifornian, the final score being | finally broke the deadlock by taking Sa end ae Dene Coney Adee three of the last four games in sen- | YOR 128i; pounds a ig ational fashion and concluded the | wauidn't take Dwyer's $10 forfeit. Dwyer Before # small, though enthusiastic | match, was dropped in the second round, tay | Taughtin of Ablentown, AC a show to be bi on ‘Tuailay neh mendors for Jack Bris was not tongue- jsmaipraved: ust gallery of tennis walked more this year than in the jas! and kids and good home brew, Williams | men fought" isn’t the word for it. It was|¢ormer anybody's match” vp until the] y seventh game of the last set, and the | brand of tennis and s exhibited by the cle {With the gest of insane that wild be Wut been matched to meet Kadi And whose wheels were badly | seventeen and nineteen for at Nowark, N. J, ay they we and sputtered, ‘There is such @ demand tor League the heavy | intting Is more obvious Kelly, has hit While his arms both rose a poor dumbbell. | bout berween € jon Heony Ionard a ble, was a credit to the sport Voshell and the Kinsey Brotl : ‘ ce ETA hing with denadly |cifie Cons mpions, will be 1 a Mrs. Bundy, smashing with deadly | 40" 444, 3 Siiss Browne 11d,! APOLLO W. | § SHOWS patty. Jew |necuracy and covering court with sur-| Mise Wagner will meet i CW MREATRE 2nd St. * on | prising speed, carried off the first set}!enge round at 4 P. My mateh ALL We VEY A peraele ur y tried to hide, Meusel with fourteen and Mc will run 4 special train direst to the ball pari found every corner of her opponent's | sheng and Miss Wagner and Miss Cas- ' Pete HERM. ys. Joe LYNC Anything to duck the fore 1 too went off my hitting of all town of Koko Simon Planerty to mee back court cont records of this year will | Mrs. Bundy outplayed her opponent, | battera wou! ong Hand City on Along about tie interest th Delng dlyplayed tn gan to shower and many of the smart. round douts to be fournt per, Bryan] @ ked Johnny Wilson out | not instructed to steal. | e Tunney hocks up with of New Orleans, \y anid Jiwmy Duffs battles nem around the paths rather than to ‘stand, The mate Jack ik iy contempla tiv ing to the referee's time, Wilson is at ithe pitehi ne this year As infinitely | Miss Browne began to tind her g Vorcing her way to the is now making his bome at 9 meet Harry London of the He Lyneh twelve rounds 4 s winner like t newed vigor her clever vollyt ea . am y ie Bacay oat ran endiine former | 7 RETTE® |: They are GOOD mbeldon ch en hbets n his boiler when some WAP! jay rider hit him on the — portsids furhor sated Mat vowne’s net street, The day following the Commission that the creation of such Boxing Commission plastered tie In bshort end of ME gamely took thenext two wanes, [oted = CIGARETTES MeLore bat the clev etopped and by beaulitul piacipg and Of Heaton te of a few years nteresting baseball 2 BASENALL oO: aya | made its weekly trip to Breeportt The Pres Ha If by landing two, the fret hey has captured in two years. One | weakfish and one fluke were | by the party, which inctuded | Hazlehurst, W. Pepper, Robert In Challenge Round Net Match| a ten minute internissiony the | . eo Ti by Beat- | thira set began with Miss Browne!) Capt, Walter J. Brock | of ins State Title by Beat | continuing her forcing tactics andj tagh, L. I, took a party of friends ay , making such bvilliant recoveries that | out fishing last Sunday on hts new’ ing’ Mrs. Bundy. she won the first three games handily.| boat, the Roamer, and according ‘0 — | Here Mrs. Bundy braced, and by te one of the number, “certainly 2.0.4 Hy hing succeeded in Keeping | them a good time.” Harry Mende, ; er opponent from the net long | former “Mayor of Coney Island” toox: brilliant victory over the f@-\ enough to even up the score in games.| a five-pound meckae and a thre mous Mrs. May Sutton Bundy The piay at this time was a tennis| pound fluke at the same time. Wes~ allery, which seemed Southard was high hook with an Browne, applauded | -ight-pound fluke, and Wd. Beden- ath | shire landed five weakfish averaging Sern. ‘There were many long valiies and| ‘hree and a half pounds, and we rie Wagner in| some of the sensational recoveries ex- | tuke to be continua liy courts yesterday, s wld hand. thfule”" the] Though Mrs. Bundy was talrly jplow breaking Coo ought it out; and |heaten, it will not detract from Mi Stare tough | Browne's victory to say that the ietors to saztha! “te | nav an 2.000 Seats at $2 top form, and we may ex- Mikg Gibbons vs. Augie: Ratner better tennis from her as | OVAL Gene Tunney vs. Marty Burke = older TUESDAY Earl Baird & Joh nounced that a r girls, playin Xhibition doubles match bets cn ndy driz-|Vincent Richards ands. Howard, NIGHT we tsmanshin | § through a BOXING to precede sthe championship donbles oe Worl d’s Championship FNC nd style. It seemed that she|iiiween Mrs, Bundy and Mrs. Hit- ind her long drives kept Miss PRICES SOc AND $1.00. trom getting anywhere Vhe play in the first set was iy, and ehih game it be. | sed women present with their sougul shelter in the press ever, continu the second set began, in w They are DIFFERENT qe>'| mpion soon began to | Both girls mad ae : a BEECH-NUT took 1 . efforts menul recover me was her opponent ands Mary was not to be