Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
.bOXlNG CONTROL BY
WORLDWIDE BOARD
BACKED BY R|NCMEN
Secretary of international I'm
ion Calls Meeting of Sports
men at Paris for February
3, 1920.
HAS AMERICAN SUPPORT
Move Follows Unsuccessful Eff
forts Extending Over Several
Years-Frenchmen Taking
The Lead.
HAS AMERICAN SUPPORT

IL those who go in for boXing-they
seem to go in for it on all six cylinders
in France-can put it overland the
E'renchmen seem determined to make
a colossal effort to achieve their am
bition-there will before long be
world wide body to control the glove
snort. That much information is OBJ
tanned in u recent communication from
Paris. which pears the stamp of au-
thority.
1t viii be remembered that back in
1913, before the world war threw the
universe into chaos. the initial step
was taken in France to create an Or
ganization which would mean some
thing to the sport. That was the Tor
union Other efforts previous to tins
notably the move by the sporting Llie
of London, which sponsored a plan TO
create an international ASSOCIATION,
stated in 1909. met with little success
MOVE MADE BY AMATEURS
Again in 1911 France started the ball
rolling. At this time those Interested
in the amateur end of the sport went
into action. This resulted in the ten
tative establishment of an orSaniza-
ton carrying the name, Federation
Francaise de BoXe. 1t was not meant
to make this entirely a French institu-
ton, but to enlarge it to a scope that
would entitle it to the dignity of an
international organization. Then the
wheels We're really clogged by warfare
and little progress was made by the
Federation Franchise de BoXe the fol-
lowing year.
AS for the International Boxing I'M
Ion, the organization became an es-
tablished institution in Paris on April
s, 1912, the following associations ad-
herring to the /. Il. U. code: New York
State Athletic association, the Fedora :
ton Beige de Boxe, the Federation
Franchise de Boxe. The Federation
Suisse, de Boxe Joined the following
year, Switzerland not being one of the
countries mixed up in the war.
MEET IN PARIS FEB. 5.
That brings one up to the present
time, quite lapse of time, but 1t seems
the future promises greater activity in
the establishment of an international
boxing body. AS evidence of this a
letter has been sent by Secretary Paul
Rousseau to all organizations in all
countries interested in boxing, calling
their attention to meeting of the
International Boxing Union to be held
in Paris on February 5, 1920, and ses-
sion of the Federation Internationale
de Boxe Amateur to be held day
later.
There are few who do not believe
that boxing control is one of the things
necessary to make boxing a complete
success. They seem to think SO in
France and they play the game big
in England.
A few words written by the Secretary
of the IntoS national union follow:
"As secretary of the Internationa
Boxing union, ] am of the opinion
that now that peace is signed, 1t is
necessary to resume the internationa
connections which had been establish
ed before the war.
'.On the morrow of the very hare
times we have experienced, and after
the glorious cooperation of such ma
lions as Belgium, the United States
italy. Great Britain and France, friends