"The promoters should have three or four good emergency bouts ready, he said. "And when those preliminary fighters don't come through with the brand of bout that the promoter and the crowd expects, they should be tossed out, and other bouts substituted. I'd toss a lot of them out in the first round. When people p: big money to watch a-boxing show, nothing is more deadly than dull preliminaries."
And the worst offense to the patrons comes when the main bout is ready to £o on. Then, Jack says, they fill thering with half a hundred current end former fighters and start introducing everybody from the days of John L. Sullivan on down.
"When they start that—even when titey sometimes get me up there in the ring—it gives me the willies" he stressed. "Its deadly. Nothing like Spectator Angle that would be allowed in any other type of entertainment. Not content with thet, when the guys introduced Snally climb out of the ring, the rę- force calls the fighters to the centre and starts giving them "a "long rigmarole of instructions. That's strictly the salami, Those fighters have been given their instructions by the commission after the weighing in. They don't pay any attention to what the referee is saying. They know how to fight and they're on edge. It's just another time-killer.
"And then there's the drunks who keep hollering on all sides of you and distracting your attention, and making you sorry that you brought your-wife, or your girl friend. And a lot of other things like that. The promoters should get wise to themselves. - This is 1938."—United Press.
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