The Seaforth News, 1954-09-09, Page 7Aust what is wrong with bee-
ing—Or "the fight game," as it is
szOre familiarly known . Both
4he millions who take in the
fights via TV, anti the faithful
few who still pay o1• chisel their
pray in to see the brawls person-
ally, aro asking the same ques-
tion. And while n0 t,wo fight
fans can seem to agree on the
answer it is the well-nigh unani-
mous opinion that something is
seriously wrong.
Mickey Walker, former World
Middleweight Champion, was a
xeally'tough cookie in his leather -
;flinging days—but, unlike many
of his contemporaries, he left the
Wing with his brains unaddled,
in fact "the Mick" is about as
;skewed a critic of flstic affairs
au you'll run across anywhere.
And here is how Walker sizes up
the situation.
* v
Jack Dempsey suggests a rem-
edy for .today's ailing exhibitions,
limiting fights would be witness -
ted if boxing promoters through-
out the country would arrange
shore no -decision bouts. He be-
lieves champions would appear
$p these contests because their
titles wouldn't be on the line
every time they fought.
I agree with Jack. In this
Way, fans could keep tabs on
Meir favorite fighters' flstic en-
deavours. I also agree with him
Ors the idea of more spectacular
fights. This, type of contest would
keep a champ in razor -edge con -
condition, ready for his very best
when a tough title contender
popped up.
*
I honestly • think Jack's sugges-
tion stems from his own experi-
ence. But he forgets there was
only one Jack Dempsey. After
a left hook or right cross, deliv-
ered from his weaving crouch,
found its mark, decisions weren't
necessary, In his first important
contender bout, his left punch
crashed against Fred Fulton's
long chin in a New Jersey no -
decision contest. That left hook
convinced the boxing world that
Jack would be the next title-
holder.
There, three year s later, as
champion in another New Jersey
ring, Dempsey with the same left
hook ended Georges Carpentier's
championship dreams in the first
million -dollar boxing gate.
e e *
Adding another ingredient to
Dempsey's remedy, Casey Bow-
man, the former "Michigan
Flash," believes that boxing judg-
es are only a waste of opinion.
He questions the various methods
by which fights are scored by
judges, Casey claims that from
their stationary ringside seats,
the judges can't truthfully score
a punch as having been blocked
or as a point for the puncher.
He gives as art example the scor-
SOME POINTERS FOR BACKWARD CITIZENS
The citizens of Perth Ontario, (population 5,000) have form-
ed an association for the industrial development of their town,
certainly ane of the most beautiful in Canada, and as a start
raising a fund of $75,000 to buy two and a half acres of
Industrial land and a factory which stands on it.
The Perth Courier has strongly supported the project but
+..mo. somments editorially in a recent issue that "no space at all has
been devoted to suggestions for the reader whose ambition is
Se do nothing for his community."
The paper then proceeds to list 13 pointers on town
pplanning, "designed especially for the backward citizen", as
follows:
1. Don't pay taxes. Let the other fellow pay his. Vote against
taxes. Then fuss because the streets are not kept up.
2. Never attend any of the meetings called for the good of the
town. Wait until you get outside and then cuss those who
made the suggestions: Find fault with everything that was
done.
P. Get all the town will give you, and don't give anything in
return. Write unsigned letters to the editor demanding more
for tax money.
Al. Talk co-operation, but don't do anything for your town unless
you get paid for it. And by all means refuse to serve unless
you are chairman.
Never accept an office. It's easier to criticize than do things.
Accuse anybody who serves in an elected office of being a
publicity-seeker.
6, Don't do any more than you have to. When others willingly
and unselfishly give their time to make a better town, howl
because that 'town is run by a clique.
7, Don't back your fire or police departments. If the firemen
work to bring the insurance rates down, tell everybody that
Is what they are supposed to do. Don't thank them or the
policemen for endangering their lives that you might have
a safer town in which to live. Demand special treatment;
raise coin if anybody expects you to obey traffic and parking
laws.
look at every proposition in a selfish way. If you are not
the one that gets most good out of it, vote against it. Never
consider what it will do for the town as a whole.
Don't .do anything for the youth of the town. Criticize them
as potential delinquents. Keep your feet on. them. En-
courage them to move away when they grow up.
'10.1f you have good town leaders, don't follow them. Take a
jealous attitude and talk down everything they do.
11. Don't work on any committee. Tell them, "I'm too busy."
12. Don't say anything good about your town. Be the first to
point up its shortcomings. Pretend that if trouble comes
your way it will be residents of some other town who will
visit you while you are ill, bring in the fire department if your
home is burning, comfort you if you lose a dear one, stand
back of you in disaster.
13. And don't support your local retail stores and industries.
Claim the prices and services in stores in other towns are
leetter. Claim industry hurts the town.
But if you need a donation, ask your local stores and in-
dustries for it. Expect them to back you but don't back them.
From "Civic Adminstrator"
11,
>D.
Rens int The Family — Double or nothing seems to he a policy
of Marilyn and Carolyn Orders, identical 18 -year-old twins.
Nast August they were married in a double ceremony. Recently
eoeh gave birth to a son. Mrs. Marilyn Gizzel, left, is shown
With newcomer Donald, Jr„ and Mrs. Carolyn Jones is holding
Jimmy, Jr. The sisters and cousins are sharing a hospital room.
Precautionary — An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure, according to Paul Loeffler, 4. He erected this stop sign at
a busy intersection where two accidents assured during the past
month. He put up the sign "so .there'd be no more wrecks,"
ing of both judges' cards in the
Olsen-Gavilan match.
One card showed each fighter
having 144 points, while the other
gave Olson a victory by a wide
margin. I have a hunch most
fighters would accept Casey's
theory. He'd like boxing com-
missions to eliminate judges'
opinions for better punching
action in the ring,
1 n t
Then Bob Perry, possibly the
only modern who has witnessed
every heavyweight champion in
action since John L. Sullivan's
reign, adds his remedy. He be-
lieves that everything which
concerns boxing today is decorat-
ed with sparkling publicity trim-
mings.
Back in the 90's, say Bob, all
fighters had to prove their worth
before they gained recognition. A
last-minute rally, .exhibiting
heart and endurance, might turn
the decision for a defeated war-
rior into victory. A champion
ah0uldn't lose his title in a close
decision climax, is another be-
lief of Bob's.
John Moran, authority on past
and present fights, supports
Perry's theories. John compares
the drab ring performances of to-
day with those of yesteryear.
* 5 *
The point system which decides
a winner in states where boxing
is legalized is slowly killing the
Eame. And here's the reason.
ach state has a different way of
totaling up points. For instance,
in one state there are 20 points
to a round; in another 11; in still
anOther, 10. Points are awarded
for aggressiveness, cleverness
and harder blows,
tt e *
The smart fighter (and most
fighters are smart today) figures
out the system. They've discov-
ered that points are given for
aggressiveness, so they develop
a style Of pushing forward. 1f
there are two pushers in the ring,
they meet one another in the
center and nothing happens,
In my book there's only one
definition for an aggressive fight-
er. That's the guy, regardless
if he gets off the floor or springs
from his corner, who's always
trying to knock the other guy's
brains out. Such were Dempsey,
Midget Smith and other spectac-
ular ring performers. (Mickey
modestly doesn't include himself
—Ed.) These fighters had sour
-
age. a a • re
Recently 1 was invited to act
as guest referee for amateur
bouts using the ten -point system.
I was instructed by an official
how to award points. Each con-
test was 'scheduled to go three
rounds,
The official said: "In case of a
knockdown, seven points are
awarded to the one who knocks
the other down,' '
"The boy who's on the floor,"
I said, "is going to have a tough
time overcoming that lead when
he gets up, no matter how well
he fights."
I couldn't change the official's
mine or rules and I entered the
ring. The second bout started
off with a tough, dark kid throw-
ing a long right hand, The
other kicl crossed his right and
the dark-haired one sprawled
face flat on the canvas. He
struggled to his feet before nine
and both kids battered one an-
other until the bell,
When the bell ended the final
round, the dark-haired kid had
the other groggy. Before the
judges' cards were collected; 1
raised the kid's band.
,k e
I have another hunch , ,
never be invited to referee at
that place again,
Valuable. Fingers
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pianists and son-in-law of Tos-
canini.
Horowitzz,, who will be fifty
on October 1st, has such amaz-
ing ability of finger that to -day
he can earn $3,000 an hour by
his playing in the United States,
where he lives with his attrac-
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Sonya, aged twenty.
Years ago Horowitz resolved
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appeared in public only for six
months every year. The rest of
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One of HOrowitz's earliest con-
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cause, said a somewhat pomptts
impresario, the pianist was "con-
valescing from a traumatic tense-
synovitis of the flexor digitorum
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sublimis and profundis muscle at
the metacarpophalageal joint."
He merely meant to say that
Horowitz had a sore finger!
Horowitz is good-looking and
olive -skinned. When he went to
Britain in 1992 be took one of
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PLAIN HORSE SENSE ee
By F. (BOB) VON PQdS
Great confusion reigns in the
minds of many people as to the
meaning of words like Social-
ism, Capitalism, Communism,
Liberalsim et al.
A case in instance is a re-
cent editorial in the Toronto
weekly Saturday Night whose
author is of the opinion that
Premier T. C. Douglas of Sas-
katchewan using "Marxist jar-
gon" when he spoke to a meet-
ing "about the class struggle,
about the ruling class that is
trying to destroy political de-
mocracy when the people try to
gain control of social democ-
racy."
If the mere mentioning of the
words ruling class and class
struggle sound like "Marxist
jargon" in the ears of Saturday
Night's editor, what does he
think of language condemning
"the social system of monopoly
capitalism which has denied
property to the masses and thus
created the division of classes
on which all class warfare is
based?"
Or. to give another sample, of
language which regards "the
prevailing system of industrial
capitalism as a disease growth,
born of man's rebellion against
Christian principles of social
life, and bearing within itself
the seeds of social anarchy and
chaos."
Incomplete Erudition
It may come as a surprise to
the editor of Saturday Night as
well as to many others that
these words did not emanate
from Moscow, that they were
not taken from any Marxist
writings, but that they are part.
of the Official Statements on
Social Justice issued by the
C at h o l i e Archbishops an d
Bishops of Australia in 1947 and
1048.
It is unfortunate that, the
otherwise so erudite editor of
Saturday Night apparently olid
not include in his readings St.
Augustine's "City of God" or
Thomas cl'Aquinas' S u m m a,
without which his education
cannot be considered complete
or he himself qualified to pass
judgment on the ideas of men
like the Premier of Saskatche-
wan.
Other Alternatives
All' too often the mistake is
)(SSA 37 — 1984
etrI
made to consider the two
prevalent socio-economic sys-
tems of Capitalism and Com-
munism as only alternatives to
order our present day daily life.
If the editor of Saturday
Night would go to the trouble
of looking through the second
part of the second part of the
Summa, he would find other
possibilities.
He might be shocked by the
discovery that business for pro-
fit as an end in itself, solely to
make money and accumulate
wealth — without any virtuous
and necessary end as the sup-
port of a family or the public
good. — is against nature and
has no justification in human
affairs.
He will also find a blueprint
for a Co-operative Common-
wealth, as d'Aquinas says that
trade for the necessities of life
does not belong in the hands
of private individuals, but ra-
ther to those in charge of the
domestic and social groups, to
the housekeepers (cooperatives)
and to governments (public en-
terprise), in other words to
those responsible for the neces-
sities of life.
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and suggestions, wise or other-
wise; it will endeavour to an-
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to Bob Von Pills, Whitby, Ont.
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