European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Yuppie Sef has discovered boxing the fight game is choose a a Grimy and smoke filled throwback sport attended by a chorus of people who look like the cast of a 1930s Edward Robinson or a group shot of the Bis 10mostwanted from a Post office b a elegant after dinner show attended by yuppies in three piece their scrubbed and stylish career wives decked out in Rodeo drives trailing a tasteful scent of Chanel Over the whole proceeding As if it were a Broadway opening or a Charity if you went to the Marriott hotel in on a recent thursday and repaired directly to the you woul Dve probably been surprised to see there at the Correct answer is boxing hold on to your hats has become As upwardly Mobile As the Ivy As establishment As the Bond As Republican As Orange coun the game of can cutters and Racke Teers has become As trendy As a the Rowdy Racket of Jake Stanley the belting and the Manassa mauler has become As socially Correct As croquet on Long As High society As a beaux arts John Sullivan must be spinning in his so must Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons and Jack Doc Kearns must be wondering where he went nosebleeds have become a Spectator sport for the country club unconsciousness is any one has been replaced by get the other Louie Mink at ringside is not ail that uncommon for big heavyweight championship fights or Casino extravaganzas in vegas or but a monthly club fight card in hotel in Reagan country its like seeing the Queen Mother at a i whatever happened to Polo in this country Doest anybody Chase foxes anymore whats next Nancy Reagan climbing into the ring with swabs in her ear  these people be out Selling Bonds Why dont they just go to the opera like their families have always done fights Are for Blu Collar truck Drivers and Saloon not Wasp what do they fight Tex the great fight would have Rickard was the first Guy to take the sport of the barges and out of the mining towns and put it on he was the first to print up Gold tickets so that they looked like deeds to a Diamond mine or a Law degree from he was the first to put tuxedos and Diamond tiaras at not since Nero had such opulence gazed Down on a blood i never seed anything like it he was moved to exclaim when he saw what kind of a fight crowd he had produced for Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpen Don Fraser is a fight promoter from the old you can Tell by the big the Well filled the a wrinkled when most sport crazy kids of his generation grew their heroes were Guys like Pete Rose or babe Ruth or Joe when dem Fraser was grow ing up in suburban los his heroes were honest Bill a promoter Nick aimed the boy and ticket czars Mike Jakobs and the legend Ary Tex Don served a proper he was Public Ity agent at the old Hollywood where the Flower of Holywood used to come to the Friday night fights a fight Flack at the olympic a matchmaker for the fabled Aileen boxing commission director in and promoter at the forum for the famous Jack Kent Fraser has been in the game Long enough to be unsentimental about he knows that pugs Are Crea Tures who eat at one end and usually fall to the floor on the he knows that managers and promoters Are masters at double entry that checks that the toughest Guys in the game Are not always the ones in the he once sat in a room with promoter Jackie Leon who was on the phone to the late Frankie the godfather of the boxing begging him to Call off the triggers because he didst have enough Money to pay off kid Fraser put on Al Norton ii in their heavyweight he was the Liaison for Cooke and Jerry Ocren Chio when they staged bouts 1 and i went to new York and this High priced press agent they hired handed me a list of a champions he wanted at the he had four dead Guys on including Jack Johnson and Max 1 told him if he could get in touch with those we didst need the we could get Richer that Fraser thought he knew the Way to get Rich in the fight game in lease the Dingy olympic and schedule two mexican cult one from below the one from the get the word wait for the Border exodus and Dayo flight then Hope theres a clearcut Victory so that the scats wont be torn cars set or snakes tossed into the would make enough Money to tide him Over for three or More buildup when this fellow from the Marriott hotels Canie to me with an idea to promote boxing in the Irvine i thought he was who Gonna come j asked the gardeners ill Tell you who came Guys in Mercedes and Button Down ladies in Paris the White wine they dont care who they dont boo a bad they the poor Fellows they dont throw they dont get mad at bad they it might have been closer than it they know their Mercedes will be in the parking lot and not at an auction in Virginia when they get that Valet parking Doest mean the Valet will take your car and Park it in Kansas i sell out every people Why dont you do it every week and i 1 want in to be a not a its the pol test form of pugilist known to dont they tend to Stop and get squeamish when someone gets Cut Fraser is he youd be surprised How game the upper class he they been getting a bad c los Angeles times Gomez cant understand and jars Allstar Boycott Milton Richman Minneapolis up the old Man wants everybody up in his lefty Gomez remembers it As if it were it want it was 52 years ago and in a few More the first Allstar game was going to be played at Comiskey Park in the old of was Connie that what everybody called the grand old and if Ever a description this one most certainly did because he managed the Philadelphia athletics until he was and there we rent any grander individuals than in every sense of the As manager of the first american league Allstar team in july Mack had called All his players to is Chicago hotel room for a meeting Only a few hours before they were to go out to the a Hall of Famer now but then one of the Yankees Star was among those who went to the room and he had hardly gotten there when Mack told him he was the starting i nearly he it ruined my whole not Gomez always was a great almost As great As he was a and could he he was the winning Pitcher in that first Allstar game and was such a Bear of a he started five of the first six Allstar contests and wound up being credited with three of the his 60 world series record still lefty Gomez enjoys a Good joke and a Good time and i cant Ever remember him getting into any kind of Contro Versy during All the years he but like so Many others on hand for this Allstar he finds it hard to understand the thinking of Joaquin the Louis 15game win Ner who turned up his nose at coming because san die gos Dick Williams want sure whether he was going to name him the National leagues starting Williams was on the Fence whether to Start Andujar or his own Lamarr since Andujar was facing Hoyt in a game Between the cardinals and the padres in Louis last Friday Williams thought the Best Way of settling the matter would be to designate the Winner the National league he made his feelings known before the but that didst suit Andujar at he thought he Shoul Dve been named the starter regardless of whether he won or lost Friday nights and he said if that was the Way Williams was going to handle he want going to the Allstar Andujar lost that game and the All stars lost Hes not but if his prime purpose was to stir the pot and get everyone talking about what he he has succeeded maybe that what he really there has been even More conversation about and jars decision not to come than there has been about the decision to strike Gomez shakes his head Over when i was picked to play in an Allstar i considered it As much an Honor As being in a world he it was my dream to play in an Allstar game As a kid and its still a dream for me to play in it says padres first baseman Steve making his 10th All Star playing in this game is something that gives you a special sense of a sense of accomplishment and of being honoured As the i know i never would pass it up if i were mets Catcher Gary twice an Allstar feels the same Way Garvey he had to pull out of tuesday nights game because of a knee injury and that bothered him so much he apologized to Williams about it Over the youre letting me Williams kidded i wanted you to win your third Andujar has been selected to three previous Allstar so he has to know there is no other game quite like if he Doest know he Joaquin Andujar made a maybe hell get another Fiance in some future All Star but there is no no one can look into any baseball future and foretell How suddenly it May Richard knows All about who has won 10 in a said he is Happy Andujar decided not to it gave me Opportunity to pitch in this he Williams says he considers Andujar fairs class Pitcher and he wishes the cardinals Dominica born right hander had decided to the int Happy Over hearing one of and jars quotes about him i guess he Doest like Williams Points out that one of his padres Ozzie is a dominican the first dominican to play in the in has been with him nine my is a coach at Williams went his manager is Felipe who is also from the dominican people can say anything they but that Doest mean there they should get their facts straight Nigeria upset Over soccer fans violence London a Nigeria has protested to the Ivory coast about violence at a weekend West african football soccer Union cup match which was abandoned after ivorian fans invaded the Field and attacked nigerian play Lagos radio reported sundays match Between Nigeria 1 ice shooting stars Side and Africa sports of the Ivory coast in the Ivory coast was abandoned after 23 the state run Nigeria radio said in a broadcast monitored in the radio said that according to news reports from the violence continued monday with attacks on the Homes of nigerians living in Many nigerians were said to have been chased out of their Homes while their belongings were the radio it added according to the Ivory coast police participated on the brutalization of members of the nigerian