The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-19
England Wants
 New Boxing Law
Ry T. S. Andrews.)

A really definite move is being made in England towards establishing a board of control of professional box ling The recently established Inter 1 national union, which had it's origin l in France must get the credit for awakening the London National Sport ing club to a sense of it's responsfbili- ties, for it is quite certain that the British palladium of the professional boxing world would not have taken up i'the idea but for the big advertise
 ment the union gained by barring out
 Jack Johnson from the worlds cham pionship. Negotiations are now pro- ceeding between the club and the Roy al Navy and Army Boxing association to combine and frame rules to govern the game throughout England.
 If the board becomes an established fact, it will not seek Jurisdiction out side of that country, but it is safe to
 assume that a reciprocal agreement
 between it and the International union will soon be fixed up. How the pro-
 posed board will affect the outside
 clubs and promoters remains to be
 seen and rests largely on the rules
 it may formulate. It can not, of
 course, possess any legal status ana
 it will have no actual means of en-
 forcing any of it's restrictions and sus-
 pensions upon the outside clubs,
 though it is not likely that they will offer any serious opposition. AS all the championship battles are decided at
 the National Sporting club in Lon
 don and as the Army and Navy asso- citation already has control of boxers belonging to the two defensive ser vices of the country, it follows that the projected board will have under its thumb a large majority of British professional boxers and the latter will naturally think twice before foutiug the supreme authority. Curiosity will range round the names of the mem bers to compose this controlling body, but am informed on good authority that it will not contain any member of the press.
 There are several reasons against including writers on boxing matters, the principal being the deep-rooted jealousy that exists amongst them. It would be a difficult. task to select a
 member of the press that would not arouse a storm of protest from his brethren of the pen, and for this req son alone it would be advisable to pass over the writers. Some years ago an attempt was made to form a con trolling board of professional wres- within a. few days through the bick- erings of the many pressmen that formed the majority of the board. If the conference comes to a successful Lonsdale. He is at once the most widely known of our British sports men and stands for everything that is straight and clean in sport.
 MT Bettinson, tine manager of the London National Sporting club. will most likely be the business head and he will also have the assistance of Eugene Corri, the famous British ref cree, and John Bernard Angle, who was in the boxing game before most of were born. Anyhow, it is cer- tain to comprise all the wise heads of the boxing world on the other side and will be a step towards a nuch-de- sired International federation and one that will carry some weight. Now it is up to the Americans to get busy on a similar organization.