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On Second Thought Promoter Turns Philanthropist PhilanthropistBy By BARNEY NAGLER NAGLERNEW NEW YORK N Y May 1 Emil Lence is a dressmaker who it seems got some of his skirts muddied in the fight business Until May 17 Lence will be the promoter at EasternParkway Arena Thereafter hes handing over the joint Jock stock and loot to his employes employesMe Me the little cloak and suiter says Im happy to see my boys make good They can have the business businessLences Lences philanthropy is not readily under ¬ stood in the boxing business Not even as fine a promoter as Mike Jacobs who came before Lence ever decided to turn over the firm to his workers Lence has it says here in small type typeIt It could be that Lence magnanimity was prompted by the 8000 plus fine and taxes imposed on him by the New York State Athletic Commission on Friday for with ¬ holding some tither due the state on tele ¬ vision fees collected from the DuMont net ¬ work This is doubtful doubtfulAgain Again it could be that Lence was so overwhelmed by the better deal given him by the American Broadcasting Company for the telecasting of Eastern Parkway bouts he should had to retire to think it over These are nasty thoughts The truth as Lence sees it is that he wants to make his hirelings happy happyHis His press agent for example one Joe Arata has turned up as president of the new corporation running the fights at Eastern Parkway Aratas introduction to the commission and press as president was not Saturday SaturdayIs Is it not true said Bob Dryer at ¬ torney for DuMont that you Mr Arata are only a dummy and a figure head headMr Mr Arata was stunned by the suggestion The redundancy got him himAt At any rate enough of this ambivalent equivocation Emil Lence has told the box ¬ ing board he is no longer connected with Eastern Parkway except in what he calls an advisory capacity anybody who sug ¬ gests that this isnt true and is a subter ¬ fuge should have his instincts examined Why perish the real nasty thought In reality of course nobody cares Certainly the fight fan or the one taking his fun via television doesnt give a single drop of Pabst or the merest nick of his Gillette as to who runs the boxing He is concerned with whos fighting where who will win and is there a fix in inThe The very evening of the day on which Lence announced formation of the Emil Lence foundation for the fiscal advance ¬ ment of Joe Arata there was a fight at St Nicks Paoli Rosi the Italian light ¬ weight was fighting Orlando Zulueta the Cuban CubanA A late arrival ran smack into a journalist on a mission missionMe Me the journalist confessed Im now an undercover agent for Bob Christen berry He wants to know if its true the fights off the boards boardsIs Is it itNo No said the journalist Its 3 to 1 on Zulueta but you can get down on it itThis This was a sharp turnabout Earlier Rosi had been favorite Before the fight a quaint citizen told this operative The odds are even Thereafter the price went all the way up to 3 to 1 Suspicious man Mr Christenberry Might be he even suspects Lence At any rate the price on Zulueta was justified in terms of result Rosi was cut ever so slightly over the right eye in the second round It was a mere riick but the break in the skin provoked a freshet Thereafter until the bout was stopped in the eighth round Rosis face was magneta smeared Visibility out of the right eye was zero He rather welcomed the intercession of Al Berl the burly referee in behalf of kindness to visiting Italians ItaliansMr Mr Chrisienberry left rather hurriedly The price as it turned out was right Couldnt be that somebody other than Zulueta nicked Rosi At that where was Mr Lence Friday night
