Arizona republican., 1919-09-25
AGAIN DELAY ACTION ON ORDINANCE GIVING.
 POST BOXING CONTROL

Action by the city commission on the ordinance creating a boxing commits | son, as proposed by Frank Luke Post of the Amercan Legon, was agan de- layed at the commsson meeting yes terday morning. AS a result the ordin ance will be submitted to the commits sion against next Wednesday, October l. for definite action, after it has been submitted to the city attorney for being placed in shape for regular action.
 Yesterdays delay was occasioned by the commissions decision that the wording of the ordinance should be amended. The most important change was the amendment proposed by City Attorney Sloan, who yesterday made his report to the commission on the legal phases of the ordinance, for sec ton 3, to make it read'a follows:
 Sec. 3. No boxing exhibition shall be given in the city of Phoenix, or a permit granted for the same, until the application for such permit has first been submitted to the said Boxing Commission as in Section hereof provided"
 In the original ordinance, as pro- posed by the former service men, a boxing commission would be created by the city commission to have control of all boxing in the city. The members of the boxing commission were to be the commander and the adjutant of the local American Legion post, and a phy- sician named by the city body. This commission would have the power to grant or refuse boxing permits, and would receive compensation for the permit.
 Judge Sloan, in his report to the commission in regard to the ordinance, stated the state boxing law and the provisions of the city charter gave the city the power to appoint a com mission whose duty it would be to examine and report upon applications to hold boxing or sparring exhibitions. The city attorney, added, however, that he found no authority in the statutes under which such a commission could be given the power to grant or refuse permits.
 T find, however, no authority in the statute under which the city may dele gate to such commission the power to grant or refuse permits said the judge. Tn order to bring the proposed ordin- ance within the law, therefore, Section 3 should be amended so as to read as follows:
 He then proposed the amendment for Section 3, which in effect would leave the granting or refusal of per mits still in the city's hands. while no one could obtain a permit without first getting the approval of the boxing commission. He then stated he was of the opinion that the city would re- quire the payment of a license or per init tax. and could base it, in whole or in part, on the percentage of the gate receipts.
 The legal report on the proposed resolution, or rather the resolution it. self aroused much discussion at the meeting yesterday. Members of the Frank Luke Post present expressed the desire to have some action taken at once. Members of the commission in turn declared they were anxious to do everything they could for the boys, and wanted more time in order to take up the matter thoroughly and eliminate all possible objections toward speedy action
 The discussion ended with the move by the commission to place the pro- posed ordinance in the hands of the
 city attorney to get into shape for