The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-27
BOXING MAY Be
SEEN IN NEW YORK
If Reports Are True Board of
CenSOrS Would Ge Good
Move.
PARIS HAS RIGHT IDEA
Game Kept Clean With Proper Su-
pervision in All De-
tails.
PARIS HAS RIGHT IDEA
BY W. w. NAUGHTON.

San Francisco. Nov ga news
dispatch of recent date hints that
there is likely 10 be a revival of box
ing in New York City. The story
goes that a bill will be introduced at
the next general session of the state
legislature in Albany and that said
bill will provide for exhibitions of the
sport of the gloves, that a state box
ing commission viii be appointed in
this connection and the duty of the
commission viii include the issuing
of licenses TO clubs of recognized sta
biliry.
If there is anything in the report.
it is to be hoped that commissioners
will sit as a board of censors Occa-
siOnally. Not that the New York
handlers of boxing are triekier than
promoters in other cities, but be
cause other sections would probably
copy New York and adopt similar
measures
Much OF the opposition to pugilism
arises from the fact that in the past
there has been no way of keeping the
game above reprOach. Baseball has
its tribunal where offenders are .lealt
with, and so has racing. In boxing
there has never been any bar of JUS
tice.
In New York, as well as in other
cities, Jobs" have been perpetrated,
and when discovered they were writ
ten about and talked about. A
crooked fighter or a pair of crooked
fighters, if they didn't care about de-
Tending themselves with show of bO-
gus Indignation. could simply hold
their peace and await for the storm
to blow over. as il 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 dis
covered, a fraud in boxing. In such
a case il 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 en-
barrassing the man who was de-
nOunced, but for the simple reason
that it was a rare thing for critics 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
anything of a fighter seldom remains
long in disgrace.
Board of CensOrs.
With a board of censors I'm New
York To deal with crooked ring men,
other places where boxing thrives
VIII soon adopt the censor idea and a
grand step towards keeping the sport
alive Will have been taken.
IL there is anything in the report
that there is 10 be a resumption of
boxing in New York, a movement in
that direction is likely. Paris, which
q.
sport on opera bOuffe lines. is now
becoming a serious bidder for high
class matches. If the game continues
TO anguish on this side of the pond
Paris and London may divide the pu-
gilistic events of the future between
them.
As evidence of the way that Paris
is reaching out Tor big fights il may
be instanced that the promoters there
recently offered a purse of S25, 600 for
a contest between Jack johnson and
Joe Jeanette 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- PEASANT, /
the names conferred on. these or I
sound wen in foreign ears /
They already have the Voltaire. the 4
Casino del Turrelles and the Elysee 4
To show that France is starting out /
Alright in its ideas of controlling the
ring game, there is Federation Des
Societe De Box. II is hard TO realize
hat places with high-sounding titles
ire really common, ordinary smuggling
arenas, where upper cuts and rib
coasters are dispensed and where
black eyes and broken noses are
fashioned while YOU wait III be
pound that a caulihower ear in
French sounds like something 10 eat.
Even the boxers have something
'distingue" about them. They have
Marco Gaueher. a Marcel Moreau
md new heavyweight named Mar
HUN. These read immeasurably
letter than "One Round Hogan"
Bat Nelson, Spike" Sullivan or the
Alaska Kid.
Bogus Amateur Bouts.
The agitation against the bogus
mateuF bouts of san Francisco
GEMS TO have died away again and