Fouled

When one boxer fouls another the profession of boxing is also fouled; when judges hand out a bad decision the profession is given a figurative black eye. Last week in the sixth round of an elimination light heavyweight fight at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, Leo Lomski, roundheaded Pole, hit hatchet-faced Pete Latzo in the groin. While Latzo writhed on the canvas the crowd rioted, felled one spectator with a cane, then trampled him until stopped by policemen. Two nights later, at Coney Island, N. Y., George Courtney, middleweight, after thrashing David Shade for ten rounds, saw with amazement the referee give the decision to Shade who, barely able to sit up, smiled broadly but painfully with a cut mouth in a face pounded raw by blows and crimsoned with blood flowing from a cut over the left eye and on the bridge of the nose.