The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-09
STATE POLICE TO
 PROBE STATUS OF FIGHT PROMOTERS
Chief Egan Sends Report of Leonard Fight to State
 Police Commission.

Boxing promoters in this state may
 be called upon in the near future to
 make some explanation of recent
 bouts, according to Chief Thomas F.
 Egan of the state police. who Watch-
 ed the fight in Hartford last Honday
 night when Benny Leonard boxed.
 Chief Egan was present at the battle
 and made a report to President Jonn
 H. Perry of the state police commls-
 sion. An interesting story published
 in the Hartford Courant in connection
 with fights follows:
 Fight promoters of the state are
 violating the state laws concerning
 prize fights or they are "faking the
 public" according to the view taken
 of the squared ring situation by
 state officials at the Capitol yester-
 day. Chief Thomas F. Egan of the
 state police department yesterday
 status of the fight promoters by
 transmitting to President John H.
 Perry of the state police commission report on a fight card pfeSen; ed in Hartford last Monday. this step belns the result Of request of the con- mission.
 ! A strict interpretation of the. state statute on prize fights in the opinion of members of th9 9commission, places the fight promoters in an unenvla ble light. Summed up the strict 1nterpre- ! tation of the law means this. it was said pesteday. The fight promoters cannot give what they advertise With out violating the law and if they do
 not give what they advertise they are "fakine the public.' This situation, it is said. is prevalent, all Over the state in the various boxing eXhlpl- tiOns.
 As the result of the steps taken yesterday by Chief Cgan at the re- quest of the co1nri ;sSi.'ifs Il IS nf-ieFed that the status of municipal boxing commissions will be locked into. Chief
 T. ~ry1r, 1ott tn
 the commission included report on the fight card in Hartford last Mon day. The report was made 5S captain Robert T. Hurley, who attended the fight on instructions from Chief Egap. The fight card feature was ten round bout, but one of the contest ants gave up after the fifth round. Chief Egan said yesterday that the state police commission at it's meet ing on September 3 took a decided attitude against prize fighting and that the mem bers of the conmlsslorl have since informed Chief Egan that they had not changed their attitude. i The commission instructed the ch1e1 to send state policemen to attend these fights and make reports on them Although it is said by those who witnessed the fight last Monday that the main bout was stopped not because the man who quit had been beaten up but because her ealized ne | was no match for his opponent, the wording of the law Is Of great I'm l portance.
 1 Section 6341 of the general statutes
 revision of 1919, defines prize ngth1ne 1 as follows: "A contest in which blows | are struck which are intended or cal 1 cu1ated to stun, disable, or knock ou' 1 either of the contestants, or in wh1cf ! either contestant is counted out o1 1 otherwise declared defeated because of failure to resume the contest l within a certain time, shell be deem l ed a prize fight within the meaning of this section.''
 | Recently, according to Chief Egan the state nr,1r,, iszio,1 had rrhlish ad