Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1918 — CHARLIE WHITE THIRD MAN IN MANY BATTLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHARLIE WHITE THIRD MAN IN MANY BATTLES

Charlie White, a landmark of the ring, who passed away at his home in New York a few weeks ago, was the most .prominent referee of pugilistic contests in this country. In nearly all the big events, when championships changed hands or were defended successfully in the Eastern states, he was “the third man in the ring.” The last big contest in that vicinity where White was the arbiter, was the Wil-lard-Morgan contest in Madison Square garden,* March 25, 1916. He was at the ringside when Johnson defeated Jeffries in Reno, Nev., in 1910, as alternate referee. Among other prominent fights in which White officiated as referee were: Jeffries-Corbett, FitzsimmonsSharkey, at Coney Island; Fitzsim-mons-Ruhlin, Maher-Ruhlln, WalcottSmith, Walcott-West, Walcott-Cree-don, Jordan-Dixon, McGovern-Erne and Erne-Gans in Chicago, and Young Cor-bett-McGovern, in Hartford, Conn.