The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27
MEMBERSHIP BOXING
AGAIN IN BROOKLYN
Broadway Sporting Club An
nounces Intention to Re-
open on Old Plan.

John Weisnantel. who promoted box
Ing bouts under the Frawley law at the
broadway Sporting Club in Brooklyn and
who was closed by the police when. after
the repeal OF the law. he attempted to
conduct bouts under the membership
plan, has decided to try again.
Weismantel has tired of seeing boxing
clubs in Buffalo, Rochester. Syracuse,
Schenectady. Elmira. Utica and Albany
stage bouts under the membership plan
every week without interference. and he
rails to see why a promoter in the lower
part of this State should be discrimi-
mated against.
His club was specially constructed for
boxing and has not been used for any
other purpose. Weismantel has called a
| meeting OF tho club members for next
Tuesday night. when the club will be re-
organised and officers elected for the
current year. In commenting on his
plans Weisnantel said yesterday:
We VIII have a membership OF some
5000 and We will hold boxing shows
| ohce week The club will be run
strictly according to law and only MEM
| bers in good standing will be permitted
TO attend the weekly boxing exhibitions,
although 1t is planned to hold other
| amusements Of an athletic nature from
| time to time.
Failure Of the Rules Committee IA
| report out the two boxing bills SO tina,
the Assembly could vote on the question
after the Senate had passed the Gibbs
and Walker boxing measures. to my way
OF thinking. was bad judgment The
soldiers, sailors and marines who fought
90 calamity and who by the thousands
sacrificed their lives for the cause OF
democracy were apparently given nc
consideration whatever at Albany, de.
spite the fact that this point was brough,
out most forcibly at the hearings on the
boxing bills.
The people OF the Empire State are
simply sick OF mollycoddle ideas. Sun.
day baseball lie a glorious thing and has
| long been real necessity for the health
| OF those confined indoors during The
! working days OF the week, The health
| and conduct OF those who were unable
to see a game heretofore will be greatly
| increased.
The movie picture bill which pro.
vides for Sunday movies is another thins
that will meet with the support of the
| general public and Is really a necessity
why the boxing bill was held I'm com.
mite Is hard to account, for because OF
It's great demand by the public. It Is
tho cleanest sport one could wish for
|
ground that there was enough liberal
| legislation already put through Is as
lame an excuse as one could hatch up
at Is the intention OF the Broadway
Sporting Club to hold weekly boxing ex.
hibitions for its members, starting within
| week or two. We are not going to VIC,
late any laws The law OF the State
| applies to one and all, and II the clubs
upstate can hold bouts without interior.
ence. we will do the same here in Brook.
| Ign or know the reason why we can moi
and others can. Why Brooklynites
should DO deprived of a sport that hat
long been established and cherished ii
| this borough while others are permitted
to have the game in other sections of the
State 10 a question some one higher W
will have to decide. II IN holding boxing
exhibitions we are violating the law, Their
others will be guilty of the same offence
The clubs lawyers. after carefully going
over the situation. win decide the
question"