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THE DEMPSEY FIGHT:

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COMMENT

The following, which in from the London Observer, appeared just after the Dempsey-Tunney Fight: Dempacy's rise and fall may serve a "purpose, however, for he may focus the public attention on the canker that, is eating its way into the heart of boxing and many other sports. When he became champion, he was no longer an in- dividual joying in a combat, and fighting partly for honour and glory and partly for wealth. He Immediately became the Dempsey. Syndicate, only one piece in this. financial corporation's game.

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It was Tommy Barne who blun dered on to the correct formulal and started the rot when he shock- ed the world by demanding £6,000 win, lose, or draw,. for his match with Jack Johnson. Ho, diverted the stream and turned boxing from n sport into a business concern. But he played a lone land. Those who followed bettered his instruc- tion, and turned the one-man busi- ness into a vast financial organi- sation with Its syndicates and mergers publicity and propaganda," for the exploitation of the public. "Blg" boxing has now entered the domain of high finance with a political pull, for just when the big purse was threatened, import- ant kinema interests were rushed up to give the syndicate added power. The kinema kings now dominate the issue,"

Showmanship.

Consider how eagerly every kinema proprietor in the Stutes and South America, in Canada, Great Britain, and many other countries," is awaiting this Demp- sey-Tenney film. It did not cost a milkon dollars to produce, as is so frequently told is the case with recent American "super-produc tions." It needed. only special lighting and two" good, kinemi. operators. No staff, no artists, or costumiers, no producers and scenario writers, no perruquiers or beauty choras, and much more important, no vast expenditure on advertising or publicity. That was achieved already by the'ni truistic efforts of a generous Press.

It is said that after the contest Dempsey wept, Not only was he weeping at his hotel on Thursday night, but according to a sympa. thetic critic, he started again. on Friday morning, The world, is invited to extend its sympathy. But it is rather lovers of real box- ing who should weep that this foul fungus has sprung up amidst a manly sport which Englishmen raised, husbanded and cultivated.

With flagrant impudence the Dempsey Syndicate erected a thickset hedge around their golden goose to ward off logical con- tenders for the title. The men chosen to oppose him at long in-. tervals averaging over sighteen months each have been an insult to boxing, Firpo was entirely a creation of the Syndicate for mul- cting the public. .

The Syndicate puts its faith in their national adage that "there is a fool born every minute," but by experience they have made the in- teresting discovery that "very second" is nearer the mark.

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It was not. Demsey who was doped before the contest. It was the public. Negotiations are pro- ceeding for staging a repetition of this humbugging business at Wem- bley next year, and, of course, the public will be invited to pay big FOR prices for a display of impotence,

. Well, if the public enjoys being made the milch tow under the soothing hands of the cinema kings, so much the worse for box, ing, for it will assuredly perish. But I know that there is a sanity about British sportsmen that ab hors fake and flummery, that wili hotly resent any desecrating hands being laid on the national sport to which we gave birth, and will mark their disapproval in no in- certain manner when the time is rise "Punch."

At a Communist conference 'at' Hellemmes, near Lilje, at which M. Doriot, the Communist Deputy, was present, h stranger brought salutations from the Communists of Russia," saying "I have no right to be in France, but I care nothing for the French police.". 'At Lille railway station, after the meeting, the stränger admitted to a Commissut of Police who had folk, lowed him that he had entered Franco with a false, passport. At the police station a considerable sum of money in dollars and pounds aterling was found in hid' possesion,, He was conducted over the frontier..

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