THE HEAVY WEIGHT |
CHAMPIONS
BOXING CONTROL BOARD'S IMPOTENCE
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WAS FARR DELIGHTED TO
MEET SCHMELING?
(By B. BENNISON)
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FEEL as a man condemned to the impossible. Which is to state with every positiveness the exact position of Tommy Farr in the matter of Joe Louis and Schmeling. I have reviewed the situa- tion from all manner of angles, and, frankly, I can view that the way has now been not be sure what will be the outcome.
fight Louis. They at least take the
cleared for the Welshman to travel. to the States. I have grown weary
ON THE ONE HAND THERE IS SYDNEY HULLS THE of what after all is said and done, WHITE CITY PROMOTER-IN-CHIEF,
F, ARMED WITH ARTICLES is an afortunate business. I feel WHICH, AS HE HOLDS, BIND THE BRITISH CHAMPION AND that the ring has been and is being SCHMELING TO FIGHT, UNDER HIS AUSPICES, FOR WHAT ridiculed, and for the life of me I AT HIS REQUEST, THE BOARD OF CONTROL AGREED TO cannot understand the Board of
Control RECOGNISE AS A CONTEST FOR THE WORLD'S TITLE.
FLOUTED LOGIC
It was not enough that they flout- ed logic by setting up Sehmeling as
Farr, through his manager, Ted Broadribb, insists that the White City, by making public the terms guaranteed to the German, have broken a definite pledge not to divulge the financial side of the arrangements, and that he is free to go to the States to fight Louis the world's champion. They have for the championship which the latter took from James J. Braddock.
The White City declare there was no stipulation that the pay- ments to the fighters must be kept secret, and generally the parties are at cross-purposes. I have had the articles of agree ment entered into by Farr and Schmeling placed before me, and
on the face of them there ap yer, and the signing last Monday pears to be no question but that of a contract by which Farr was to Farr and Schmeling undertook to go to New York for Louis, and an take the ring at the White City intimation that the negro would be or pay forfeit. It can only be kept at home until he had fough assumed that Farr's and his the British champion. manager's interpretation of the contracts is different from mine. And I am not disposed to quar- rel on that account.
:)
SEEKING DAYLIGHT-
out having
to
not at the time of writing made. any move to ascertain the true posî- tion of Farr and Schmeling, so-far as it had to do with the White City, nor sought to smooth over the dif ficulties.
To ask the world to accept a fighter as champion of champions on moral grounds is ridiculous. The most that was required of them was to sympathise with the German in having been frozen out of a fight with Braddock. There is no moral right to a title. Championships may not be decided by a court of equity. When Braddock got to the ring at Chicago, he was universally re- cognised as champion.
Meantime the White City are
RIGHT OF CONQUEST seeking daylight through various It is not for me to deny Farr a agencies. Farr came back to Lon-
He was knocked out by Louis. right to conduct his affairs accord- don from Paris last Tuesday with and the ne
by right of conquest, ing to his own lights. But I do dîs-
fered with Sydney succeeded to the title. It behoved like intensely the least quarrelling. Hulls, who had flown over
the Board of Control, so soon as I feel that boxing has been hurt France to see him. I am now as they learned that Farr was comet- by all that has transpired. The pub-sured that all details of a Louisting with Louis, to the presumed lic, apparently, have not been con- Farr match have been settled to the sidered, although it is the purse of satisfaction of the Welshman, and the public upon which fighters, he will leave for New York within managers, and promoters depend the next week.
exclusion of Schmeling, to call for whatever the written contracts are governing the proposed fight be- tween the British champion and the the scales e German. It was their duty to hold
bet rich fighters pro
to
To week of fent, so be ready ous pr
for their living. I wish that 1 Further, that Farr will fight for were free to tell in full the story the title on a da
DELIGHTED!
That, however, cannot be done ot at the moment. It may be re- called that a Farr-Schmeling fight.
was announced to the accompani-
will permit of his dou London before the
first September is out, so as
he had not run out on the German developed for Schmeling, thereby proving that ing of have inquired of Mr. Hulls what alleged
and
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That is for
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LOUIS FOR LONDON.
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ment of blaring trumpets, and with much rejoicing; that Farr, for his part professed to be delighted that Was
visers he had got to grips with the Ger- man, in whom, with his manager, he saw the real world's champion- ́and, Schmeling assured a large and
But listen! I am told that responsible gathering of crities
Lonis beats Farr, he wil that he was delighted to have an London, and fight at opportunity to do battle with
Earl's Court
hich
fighter so worthy as the
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agreed
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