Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1928 — Page 8

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WALSH THINKS HUDKINS WON _ — 1 "— A Financial Flop Chicago. June 22.— (U.R) — The Mickey Walker Ace Hudkins bout, promoter Jim Mullen s loftiest bid sot a place beside Tex Rickard, has a financial flop. Although predicting a week ago that the title bout would draw a $2(M),ooo gate, he found today, when the receipts were counted, that he was $15,000 in the hole. More than halt of his boxing shows during his 4-year promoting career here have failed to pay expenses. "Maybe," lie said, "Chicago does not want boxing." By Davis J. Walsh. INS Sports Editor. Chicago. June 22.—They pulled one out of the hat for the boys at Comiskey Park in the rain last night when they said Mickey Walker was the winner over Ace Hudkins in their ten round fight for the middleweight championship of the world. Walker didn’t win. according to my scoring, any more than the same fighter beat Dave Shade out of the welterweight title in New Yoik several years ago or, according to popular indictment, any more than he won the title he now holds at the expense of the late Tiger Flowers. But I've had a hard, hard life and somehow I find I'm mellowing in the ageing wood very nicely. No longer do I react violently to decisions that fail to cajole my judgment. The pass has been reached wiiete resp»ct f r the opinions of others has become strangely tolerant and the fact of the , matter was that two local citizens. ( Ed Kelln, a restuaranteur, and Harry Carroll, an auditor, sat in the judge's (hairs and said Hatt Walker had won. Ed Purdy, the referee, voted for Hudkins but quite a few newspaper critics saw it the way the judges did. The crowd of some 30,000 didn’t like it at all. So maybe there was a margin of I honest doubt about the business and maylte, too. I'm as blind as a hook j without an eye. It must have been ; one or the other it couldn't have been both. 4 Walker, as the writer saw him. carried just two rounds of the ten, one ’ of them by a convincing margin. This I was the fourth in which had Hud I kins drooling on the edge of a knock-.: out from v flurry of lefts and rights | to the jaw. This was Walker's big moment virtually his only one, just s the seventh round was Dempsey’s climax with Tunney. It also wa,s I Dempsey's anti-climax before the bell sent them on to ano.'.ur round xnd strangely there was one resemblance . f this to Walker's failure to put Hudkins on the floo- in the fourth’last i night. One mo-? punch might have [ won for both of then, l iit neither had ! it Walker b’ew up with victory in 1 sight. So did Dempsey. His arms I and legs went dead when, by all the I odds of the game, they should have ] been tingling with life. Dempsey's did the same. I think Walker is through. I know Dempsey is. Mickey was so weary after the ' fourth that he could barely lift his , arms and then only to protect him- I self against Hudkins' incessant attack on the body. It is difficult to see how they could give a decision to a man who did nothing very steadily : for the last six rounds. But they I <ould, in fact, the matter went a trifle further than that. They did. Some observers said they thought Walker won because he landed the leaner punches. Personally, I would like to know just how many he landed, clean or otheiwise, in the last six rounds and I’ll even count the ones he would have liked to start, had he been able. The champion just didn't have a punch in him for the second half of the fight. Occasionally, he lashed out in the briefest of rallies but these always were succeeded immediately by the old army game—safety first and always. Having shot his bolt in the fourth found. Walker simply was ont-roughe.t, and out-bulled by a younger,, tougher man. The latter was warned several times for low punching and as many times more for hitting on the break, a possible source of point-reduction by the jud'-s. It didn't seem, however. that even this could have made the ('■ I.non a just one. Getty Blames Low Hitting By Frank (Jetty

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(F. I*. Sports Editor) Chicago. 111., lune 22' (U.R) If Ace ll'idkiiir of Nebraska still retains his i ■ ambtion to win the middleweight , championship of the world, it would I be well for that sandy haired youth to make the acquaintance of the rules of the prize ring, as laid down by the Marqttls of Queensbury. The narrow margin by which ’ Mickey Walker retailed the title in, his ten round fight with Hudkins at Comiskey Park last night ihight hav» 1 been wiped out if the Nebraska wildcat had made the slightest effort to I conform to the ordinary decencies of I fi'.tlcuffs. The challenger carried the fight to j the champion throughout every round.! but for hitting low. back-handing, hit-1 ting on the break, butting and every-’ thing hut biting, the like of Ace Hudkins has seldom been seen in a high j class ring battle. Whatever sympa thy Ace might have won by his courage and persistent attack, he forfeit- ! ed by his unsportsmanlike tactics. Mickey Walker, who outpointed his challenger in six of the tea i r ounds, never complained. Occasion-1 ally, when he was fouled, he cut loose ’ with a flurry of fists which drove the | baffled Hudkins about the ring. This | was the only sign that the champion ’ had l>een hurt. STANDINGS Central League W L Pct. I : Akron 27 22 .551 j Fort Wayne 27 23 ,54ft' Dayton 28 24 .538 j Springfield 27 24 .529: Erie 27 26 .509 I • Canton 18 35 .3401 National League W L Pct ] St. I, tris 40 23 .635 I j Cincinnati 38 29 .567 ’ , New York 31 24 .564 f ’ Chicago 35 29 .547 Brooklyn 30 29 .538 j Pittsburgh 27 31 .466 1 | Boston 20 36 .357 ’ Philadelphia 16 37 .302 j American League W L Pt New York 45 13 .776 Philadelphia 35 22 .61# , St. Louis 32 28 .538 ! Chicago 22 37 .373 I Washington 25 31 .446 j Boston 22 31 .415 Detroit 23 37 .383 ‘ Chicago 22 37 .373 American Asscciation W L Pct. Indianapolis 38 29 .5671 Milwaukee 37 29 .564 F I Kansas City 36 29 .554 j i Toledo 35 30 .53? | St. Paul 34 31 .523! Minneapolis 33 32 .508 | i Louisville 27 38 .415 Columbus 22 44 .333 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Central League Canton 7: Erie 4. Fort Wayne-Springfield, rain. Aki on-. Dayton, rain. National League New York 9-1; Boston 4-3. Cincinnati 5; Pittsburgh 4. i St. L uis 1-4; Chicago 2-1. Brooklyn-Philadelphia rain. American League New York 4; Philadelph'a 0. Chicago 2-4; Cleveland 4-3. Poston 9; Washingion 2. St. Louis 8-9; Detroit 3-5. American Association Milwaukee. 6; Minneapolis 3. Louisville 3; Columbus 2. Indianaprlis 7; Toledo 3. St. Paul, 6; Kansas City. 3. o YESTERDAY'S HOME RUNS Player and Club S.T.‘ ’ Terry, Giants (1) 7 ; Blue, Browns (1). .7 Lazzeri, Yankees (1) 6 Rice, Detroit 111 3 ! E-ttencourt, Biowns (1) 2 j Schang, Browns (1) 1 The letters: Ruth. 25; Gehrig, 16; I Bottomle; . 15; Hornsby, 14: Bissonette, 13; Wilson, 12. f./*a;’ue totals: National, 263; American, 226. o . Bluffton Golfers Lose To Peru Team, 52 To 9 The Bluffton city gclf team suffered • a decisive defeat Wednesday afternoon ’ at the hands of the Mississinewa ■ Country club at Peru. The f.nal score ■ of the match was 52-9. Peru. Peru is rei gat (led as having one of the strongest I teams in the Northern Indiana golf i league.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY. JUNE 22, 1928.

('hampion Retains Title ■V■ t - . .. . fe I■J| " G oil* ■ . r v ? w FtjGflL- . - JEW KL ~ • ' > Mickey Walker, middleweight boxing champion, with his manager. Jack ’ Kearns. Mickey beat Ace Hudkins in a title bout at Chicago Thursday I n'ght. retaining his title.

Tilden Defeats Wilbur Coen. Score 6-2, 6-2 London. June’22—(U.R) -W. 5 . Tilden

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