Retraction

Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column."

Fortnight ago at the Braddock-Farr fight fists flew when Sun Sportswriter Ed Van Every repeated Dan Parker's charge to Jimmy Powers' face (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week this phase of the unseemly friction between Editor Powers and most of the rest of his colleagues closed with a letter printed in Dan Parker's column "in justice to Jimmy Powers. . . ." "Dear Mr. Parker:

"I am trying to rectify a wrong that has been done Jimmy Powers. ... I regularly clip and send fillers to the [New Orleans] Times-Picayune with full credit lines. I sent the Gorem article from the Sun with credit. It was not actual news and was placed on the 'bank' [with other unused type] in the Times-Picayune. Several days later the column written by Jimmy was sent in. In some manner the makeup man on the Times-Picayune picked up a part of the Gorem article and added to the Powers column with no separating . . . dash or credit line. . . .

Marion J. Pike New York Representative"

With equal gallantry, Jimmy Powers acknowledged the apology: "I have always had a deep respect for Dan. And I wish to thank him for his magnanimous and wholly unsolicited retraction."

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