Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-14
Boxing is Gaining
 as Sport Among
 Leading Colleges

New York, Jan. 13--Boxing as an intercollegiate sport is rapidly gaining supporters at number of colleges and universities in ali parts of the country and cham pionship tournaments under re- vised ring rules are not at all un likely within the next few years. Inter Varsity bouts between picked boxing teams representing Oxford and Cambridge universi- ties have been part of the annuaI English sport schedule for many years and similar contests are no. entirely unknown in the United States.
 It is expected that such meet, ings will become more frequent as the boom in boxing gathers strength. The tendency in this direction is shown by a number of recent reports of boxing activity among the collegians. Word comes from Peoria, Ill.,, that the Little Conference" has included boxing in it's list of major sports and that a championship tourna- ment would be held next spring.
 In the east the University of Pennsylvania has long been an ar dent advocate of boxing for the college athlete and has several times suggested the formation of an Intercollegiate Boxing League. At the present time both Pennsyl- vania and Penn. State College have the largest squads of boxers trying for the teams in the his- tory of the sport. Both squads are under the instruction of com- petent coaches and there will be a dual tournament early in the spring between the two institu- tions as was the case in 1919. Dartmouth and other colleges in the east. have engaged boxing coaches and plan intramural tour naments wit hthe possibility of broader activity within a year or two.
 The plan for a set of interna- tional boxing rules to supercede the antiquated Marquis of Queens berry code promises to be a sub- ject of considerable controversy during the coming months, The Army, Navy and Civilian Board e, Boxing Control ii. this country re- gently sent a representative abroad with the outline for new regulations. Later it was learned that the International Boxing Federation, a European organiza- tion, was also at work on such a set of rules. It was further learned that there was wide gulf between the proposed codes and that so far as the European authorities were concerned there was little inclination to adopt the American ideas.
 The Amateur. Athletic Union has also issued a notice to all car- didates for places on the Ameri- can Olympic Games boxing team that the contests at Antwerp next summer will be conducted under the English amateur boxing rules and that they must familiarizc themselves with this code if they expect to make the team. These rules differ in number of re- spects from the United States regulations and point winner under the latter might easily be declared the loser in a bout fought at Antwerp.
 In this connection portion of the report of the manager of the A. A. U' team of boxers who re- gently returned from tourna- ment trip through Scandinavia is enlightening. All the bouts were fought under English amateur rules. The manager states:
 America learned lesson from the tour which will be of great aid in preparing a championship combination for the Olympic games. The rules under which the Americans competed in Den. mark and Sweden are the rules which will govern the boxing con. tests at the Olympic games, namely, the English amateur box- ing rules.
 "The judging and scoring of points under the English rules greatly favors the scientific boxer and no credit is given for aggres- siveness.
 "The American boxers will have to change their tactics if they hope to win at the Olympic games next summer, and the American Olympic Committee and those re. sponsible for amateur boxing should take advantage of the les son learned on this tour, and en- deavor to change the styles of some of our best afateurs.
 "Unfamiliarity with the boxing rules in the Scandinavian coun- tries was a big handicap to the Yankees, but despite this the trio was very successful, winning thir- teen of the seventeen contests ia which they participated"