Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1926 — Page 19

JAN. 22, 1926

ORDERS BOTHER RICKARD Tex May Defy N. Y. Ring Commission and Stage Jersey Fight. By Henry L. Farrell United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 22. —Open defiance of the New York boxing commlßßlon was threatened today by Tex Rickard as a result of disagreements since he opened his new Garden. For the first time since he took up the promoting business here, Rickard scowled when told the commission might withdraw his license if he talked to Jack Dempsey about a fight against Gene Tunney. "I haven’t done any business with Dempsey or Tunney,” he said. “But I will if I see a money-making match. I can’t fiddle around with little matches. I’ve got to get big ones to make my investment good. Any one knows Dempsey will draw money any place.-” Commission Matches A break in the friendly and business relations between Rickard and the commission has been imminent since the committee got out of its role and started making matches. The commission forced a poor card for the Christmas fund on Rickard and when the bills were paid Rickard found himself holding the bag for SII,OOO. Then he had a prospective moneymaker blown out from under him when the commission refused to allow Mickey Walker and Tommy Milligan to meet for the world’s welterweight championship after considerable money had been spent in arranging and advertising the match. The attempt of the commission to force a light heavyweight championship match between Paul Berlenbach and Mike McTigue on Rickard, further peeved the promoter. Wanted Huffman He insisted that a match between Berlenbach and Eddie Huffman ■would be better for all concerned, but the commission said not. The commission’s rule against smoking during boxing matches also caused bad feeling. Rickard spent $150,000 for machinery that would Change the air in his Garden every two minutes, but the commission said it had a rule against smoking and it would stick by it. Rickard insists the anti-smoking regulation has caused a decrease in attendance. , * If he decides to make a match between Dempsey and Tunney in Jersey City, Rickard says the commission cannot stop him. He claims also that Harry Wills to be on the ineligible list because he signed a contract with Dempsey.

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By Joe Williams NEA. Service Writer RITCHIE won the Yy lightweight championship -J of the world by defeating Ad Wolgast in sixteen rounds Noy. 28, 1912, at Daly City, just beyond the municipal confines of San Francisco. v It is written in the books of pugilistic history that Ritchie was awarded the championship on a foul by Referee Griffin. Theoretically this is true, but actually Wolgast was as thoroughly “out” as was any battler who ever rellnguished his honors via the knockout formula. The of the struggle was a surprise. Ritchie was a little known fighter at the time. Indeed, when the story of his triumph came sinclng over the ’.vires from the 'West his name did not even appear in the record books. For this reason skeptics in the East were Inclined to discredit the San Francisco youth’s victory and the fact that he was awarded the title on a foul did not help his case any. The eastern attitude was that it was “one of those native son things.” All of which was, of course, un fair to Ritchie, who was as fine a

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right-handed puncher as the lightweight division ever knew and whose win over Wolgast was as clear-cut and deserving as if he had knocked the Cadillac (Mich.) German absolutely cold.

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Wolgast had the better of the early rounds. Coming to his corner at the end of the sixth round the champion boasted, “Watch me get this guy in the next round. I’ll jab him to pieces.”

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But Wolgast did not get Ritchie in the next round, or the next, or still the next. Instead, he began to fade and it was clear to all when the gong sounded for the twelfth that he was a beaten champion. The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth rounds were alike, with the game, bulldogglsh Wolgast bending gradually under a relentless savage pommeling and all the while snarling vulgarisms at his tormentor through split, bloodflecked lips. Came the sixteenth and the finish. Ritchie landed a right to the jaw,

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and the champion dropped to his knees. The sight of Wolgast on the floor seemed to hold the younger antagonist in a trance, and he made but a fainthearted effort to renew the attack when Wolgast arose and staggered around. WolgßSt, with uncertain legs and swaying shoulders, lumbered toward Ritchie. It was here he committed the foul which cost him his titlo. With one violent physical effort he swung both fists into Ritchie’s gToin and the ’Frisco taxi cab driver fell to the canvas, his features writhed with pain. Without an instant’s hesitation Referee Griffin pushed Wolgast away, helped Ritchie to his feet, and held the stricken battler’s glove aloft, proclaiming anew title-holder In the (then) 133-pound division.

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ONE PUNCH ENDS BOUT Amateur Negro Heavyweight Scores K. O. In Eight Second*. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Lawrence Creighton, Negro heavyweight, established anew A. A. U. record on Thursday night when he scored an eight-second knockout over Fred Strachat, New York, with one righthand punch. DETROIT TEAM WINS Bv United Press DETROIT, Jan. 22/—Pulaski Post, members of the American Basketball League, defeated tho Boston Whirlwinds, 31 to 11, Thursday. The score at half was 15 to 4 in favor of the post team. i

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