The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-28
MAY REVIVE BOXING
 IN NEW YORK CITY
Rumored Bill Will Be Sent to
 Legislature
PUGILIsM WAS CROOKED
Boxing Formerly Has Not Been Done on the Square md the Art Has Fallen Into Reproach on
 That Account
By ". w. NAUGHToN

San Francisco, November 27.-A news dispatch of recent date hints that there Is likely to be revival of boxing in New York city. The story goes that a bill will be introduced at the next gen eral session of the state legislature in Albany and that said bill will provide for exhibitions of the sport of the gloves, that state boxing commission will be appointed In this connection and the duty of the commissioners will include the is- suing of licenses to clubs of recognized stability.
 If there is anything in the report it Is to be hoped that commissioners will sit as a board of censors occasionally. Not that the New York handlers of box ing are trickier than promoters in other cities, but because other sections would probably copy New York and adopt sim liar measures.
 Much of the opposition to pugllism arises from the fact that in the past there has been no way of keeping the game above reproach Baseball has It's tribunal, where offenders are dealt with and so has racing. In boxing there has never been any bar of justice. In New York, as well as in other cities, jobs have been perpetrated and when discovered they were written about and talked about. A crooked fighter or a pair of crooked fighters, if they didn't care about defending themselves with a show of bogus indignation, could simply hold their peace and wait for the storm to blow over, as 1t was sure to do Then these same fellows could go right along making matches as though nothing had happened.
 In some instances some single critic would discover. or think he had discov- cred, fraud In boxing. In such a case 1t would be a rare thing If he received much support from other men in his line. Not that they took the other side for the purpose of embarrassing the man who was denouncing, but for the simple reason that 1t was a rare thing for crit icn to view an affair of this kind the same way. As for the public, it always has been apathetic about the queer things that boxers do. A fighter who is any thing of a fighter seldom remains long in disgrace.
 With board of censors in New York to deal with crooked ring men, other places where boxing thrives will soon adopt the censor idea and a grand step toward keeping the sport alive will have been taken.
 If there Is anything in the report that there Is to be res sumption of box ing In New York a movement in that direction Is likely. Paris, which for a few years conducted the ring sport on opera bouffe lines, is now becoming a serious bidder for high class matches If the game continues to languish OH this side of the pond, Paris and Lon don may divide the pugilistic events of the future between them.
 As evidence of the way that Paris is reaching out for big fights, it may be instanced that the promoters there recently offered a purse of $25,000 for contest between Jack Johnson and Joe Jeannette or Sam McVey. Up to the present time the offer has not been accepted.
 New boxing clubs are springing up in Paris every week, and en passent the names conferred on these organ izations sound well in foreign ears They already have the Voltaire, the Casino Del Turrelles, the Salle Wagram and the Elysee Montmartre.
 To show that France Is starting out alright in Its ideas of controlling the ring game, there Is Federation Des So- ciete de Box. It Is hard to realize that places with high sounding titles are really common ordinary slugging are mas, where upper-cuts and rib-roasters are dispensed and where black eyes and broken noses are fashionable while you wait. I'll be bound that a cauli- flower ear in French sounds like some. thing to eat.
 Even the boxers have something dis tingue" about them. They have a Marce Catcher, a Marcel Moreau and a new heavyweight named Marthuin. These read immeasurably better than "Ont Round Hogan" Eat Nelson" Spike Sullivan" or "The Alaska Kid"
 The agitation against the bogus anna. teur bouts of San Francisco seems te have died away again and the promo. ters who handle four-round bouts be- tween the professionals of inferior qual. ity are again permitted to advertise their shows as amateur bouts. Amons people who are interested in seeins amateur sport safeguarded wonder ]. expressed that the local officials of the western branch of the Amateur Ath. connection. little litigation in this direction would probably result in re- moving the amateur label from thes, frankly professional bouts.
 Around the tenderloins of the city billboards are placed outside the build. ing on the sidewalk every week. These signs contain information that there is to be a grand amateur night at some place designated and that the patrons will be treated to1"six corkinE goes. Information as to the prices of admis. sion is given in large type, and there Is no pretense that the place where the ring is pitched is an amateur athletic club or that the entertainment is "for