The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-01-06
BOXING AS AMATEUR SPORT
MAY AGAIN BE POPULAR
Revision of the Rules Will Enable
Colleeg and University Men
to Participate
Associated Pressl

New York, Jan. 3.-Boxing as an
Intercollegiate sport is rapidly gain
ing supporters at a number Of COL
leges and universities in all parts of
Inc country and championship tourna-
ments under revised ring rules are not
at all unlikely wittin the next few
years. Inter-'varsity bouts between
picked boxing teams representing OK
ford and Cambridge universities have
been part of the annual English sport
schedule for many years and similar
contests are not entirely unknown in
the United States.
It is expected that such meetings
will become more frequent as the
boom Of boxing gathers strength. The
tendency in this direction is shown
by number of recent reports of box
ing activity among the collegians
Word comes from Peoria, ILL.,, that
the "Little Conference" has included
boxing in its list of major sports and
that a championshi ptournament
would be held next spring.
In the east the University of Penn
sylvania has long been an ardent ad-
vocate of boving for the college ath-
lete and has several times suggested
the formation of an intercollegiate
boxing league. At the present time
both Pennsylvania and the Pennsyl-
vania State College have the largest
squads of boxers trying for the teams
in the history of the sport. Both
squads are under the instruction of
competent coaches and there will be
a dual tournament early in the spring
between the two institutions as was
the case in 1919. Dartmouth and
other colleges in the east have engag-
ed boxing coaches and plans intra-
mural tournaments with the possibil-
ity of broader activity within year
or two.
The plan for set of international
boxing rules to supercede the anti
quated Marquis of Queensbury code
promises to be a subject Of consid-
cradle controversy during the coming
months. The ermy, navy and civilian
board of boxing control in this coun-
try recently sent a representative
abroad with the outline for new reg
ulations. Later it was learned that
tbs International Boxing Federation,
a uropean organization, was also at
work on such set of rules. 1t was
further learned that there was
vide gulf between the proposed code
ard that so far as the European au-
thorities were concerned there was
little inclination to adopt the Amer
lean ideas.
The Amateur Athletic Union has
also issued a notice to all candidates
for places on the American Olympic
games boxing team that the contests
at Antwerp next summer will ce con-
Quoted under the English amateur
boxing rules ard that they must fam
iliarize themselves with this code If
they expect to make the team. These
rules differ in a number of respects
from the United States regulations
and 81 point winner under the latter
might easily be declared the loses in
a bout fought at Antwerp.
In this connection a portion of the
report of the manager of the A. A.
U. team of boxers who recently re-
turned from a tournament trip thru
Scandinavia is enlightening. All the
bouts We're fought under English am
ateur rules. The manager states:
america learned a lesson from the
tour which will be of gerat aid in
preparing a championship combina-
tion for the Olympic games. The
rules under which the Americans COM
peted in Denmark and Sweden are
the rules which will govern the box
ing contests at the Olympic games,
the English amateur boxing
lIles. ~
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