The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-03
Will Not Be Granted
For Boxing.
WRANGLiNG SPORTS
Destroy Their Chances in
the Board Hearing.

worcester sports killed the goose that
laid the golden egg at the meeting of
the license board in city hall yesterday.
Ihey got to wrangling about a license
TO conduct boxing exhibition, and the
result was that the license board called
matt and gave no license.
The sports have regarded a boxing
license as such good thing that thew
nave been falling over each other in
rhelr haste to get one. Two weeks ago
the Forestdales applied for a license.
Inc board postponed consideration for
week TO get an idea of the law and
aiso VI the program. The Forestdales
ula not SHOW up with the program. and
the board postponed consideration until
yesterday.
IN the meantime the Forestdales got
4 mo trouble. Two factions formed in
IN yesterday. 1t asked that a license
De granted to Billy Whalen and George
boles, to run a benefit show with hoy
ing as the chief feature. The Forest :
cafes application was headed off and
finally Withdrawn. '''ie'
Inc rival claimants secured co,elsel
Inc Whalen contingent appeared in
tLly nan with James F. McGovern and
Inc horeStoale representative had
councilman John +. Meagher in tow
Inc sports and their counsel laid FOR
members of the board, and buttonhoIed
tleIn IN the corridor leading to room 40
IL didn't take long for them to undar.
stand that their hopes of securing. IL
cehses Tor boxing shows while there
was such Wrangling, would be decided
~ silght. so a compromise was agreed
torestdale man consented to withdra ",
the application for license at the rink
| Feb. g. '-t0 linn
mat decision did not save the VIVA
len contingent. That party. with ire
counsel, was invited into the meeting
70 explain its case, which it did. It ex-
plalned TOO much. Had the entire mat
Ter peen left to Lawyer McGoyern. he
might have jollied the license hoard
Tor ne does pretty good job when he
starts out with that intention, But one
OF the Whalen men was DESTROYS of
explaining a point, and before he was
alloWed to sit down the license board
ldu more information than any of the
applicants desired them to have.
| The boxing fraternity and it's coun-
sci We're allowed to depart and the
| board considered the application. If
ala not approve of granting a license
| TO individuals, and it did not admire
the spirit of the sporting men in maxi
ing boxing license such contestable
! OBJECT But it was the program the
Whalen men submitted that gave the
application the solar plexus blow. The
names of Billy Whalen and George
Boles appeared on the program The
board thought the statute prevented it
granting that license 1t reads that no
boxing shall be permitted where any
| OF the participants receive compensa-
| ton of any sort. Whalen and Boles
| appeared to be lined up for everything
that was coming, so the board sat on
| the application.
The greediness of the rival applicants
has given boxing a black eye. One
| good thing has resulted, however The
board won't even consider any more
applications unless they are from
thoroughly responsible parties. The
| board does not propose to abet money
| making schemes of everybody who
chooses to devise them.
The board does not object to boxing.
1t has been informed by the city solicit
or that the sport in itself is not illegal,
and the members of the board wit
messed an exhibition to see whether
boxing is as Objectionable as some
claim. They did not discover any OBJ
jectionable features and were prepared
to permit the sport to be carried on as
long as 1t was kept within proper lin
its. The Forestdales came close to kill
ing 1t off.