The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-24
FAKE FIGHTS
Prevented
Senator FrawIey Of New York Favors
Boxing Under Regulations.
duce a Bill to Prevent Fake Fights
and Also to Foster the Sport-Says
1t Is Clean and Aids Morals.

New York, Feb. 18.-Those inter
ested in the clean and manly port f
boxing are gathering statistics to be
forwarded to Senator James Frawley
at Albany. With their aid and gen.
eral knowledge of athletics which
Senator Frawley has acquired in
life time devoted to sports of Ill
sorts, the senator may induce his col
leagues to look kindly upon a bill
which. he intends to introduce.
"It is health and life," said the sen
ator. 81 favor boxing as one of the
| finest of exercises. 1t brings into
play every muscle in the body. 1t
| teaches a man to be manly, resource
| full and clean. A man with healthy
body must be clean, morally and ply
sically.
81 am willing to father boxing
bill but it must be drawn as l die
tate. Under it's provisions there
could not be any such prostitution of
| the sport as took place under the
Horton law. 1t was a relief to me
and to all true lovers Of sport when
the Horton law was repealed. The
| public had been robbed and swindled
| repeatedly by fake fights, by collu-
| sion between fighters and promoters,
and in various other ways. II |
| thought for one moment that a repe-
tition of these things would be posi-
BILE under the bill l have in mind.
that bill would never be introduced
| What would be the features OF
your bill?"
THE feature would be the estab-
lishment of a commission to take box
ing under it's wing and regulate it.
This commission would have the
power to license regularly organized
athletic clubs to conduct boxing
matches"
Regarding fake fights, what meas
ures would you take to prevent
them?" ....
| mo measures are necessary. 1t
would be entirely within the power
of the referee. If he saw two boxers
i taking it would be his business to at
once declare the fact. If he did not
and the fight was known to be a
fake, then that referee would meyer
be permitted to referee another bout.
He would be disbarred. AS for the
boxers, they would also be disbarred
from entering the club again or from
boxing publicly at any other place
within the state.
will your bill provide for bouts
of a limited number of rounds?'
Yes, we would have to do that. 1t
will be impossible to prevent knock
outs. of course, Knockouts are bad
but they really do not amount to any
thing l have myself been knocked
out many times, and there is no
harmful after effect. AS matter oil
fact, if | was asked to take my choice
between a long fight and knockout
I would put up my jaw at once and
take the punch. 1t is my intention
to have the bill provide that de
cision must be rendered in every;
also, to provide that judges should
be appointed in addition to the
referee. Under this system there
will be steadying influence upon the
referee, and the fact that decision
must be rendered would prevent col
fusion between the fighters. How
many fights were fought under thu
Horton law where the boxers stipu
| ~
their feet at the end of the bout, {
draw was to be declared? A grea
majority of them. The men sai(
they did not want to suffer loss o
reputation by trusting to the decisio,
of a referee. when, as a matter o
fact they had agreed to fake and di
vide the purse"
DO you believe your bill will
pass?"
Il hope so. Clean boxing is mos
healthful sport, and as said befor'
would not attempt to get the bill
solutely fair and clean sport woul,
be the result I believe that it is tn
very best thing for a young man NOR
ally and physically. I believe that
father should see that his sons ar
taught to box. 1t teaches them sell
reliance and control. Go to tn
courts and see the men who ar
brought there for street brawling
Do you ever see any boxers there
They avoid trouble. and if they car
not avoid it they know how to en-,
it quickly. They do not roll all owe
the street and tear each other
,, Clothes"