The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-16
BILL PROPOSED IN LEGISLATURE IS KILLING STROKE.
Death Of Jerome Was Un- timely Incident Fos
 Game
" HwEsTDRooK PEGLER

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 NEW YORK. Jan. 1E--Ths referee has started to count over the horf- zpntal form of the boxing business and unless he stutters. the call of -ten and out is likely to be heard i'm very short tirna. =
 If this transpirsas it will be the snira t hnsssous of es So5isE S1,Es Gu.l Snz. been introduced i'm the legislature in ATbanys each demanding tho abolition of the busfuess for no very specific. reasons but hoxtngs n usual. is un-l able to raise . nand to defend It. zeIf.s .ls.,5l5s...& E
 rs sas s r :: :..sass a.Drsd ss. Ss yeunG msn who have become rich in and aruund the ring du1ing the last four sea1pns as though there should be some law to prevent one parti-. cu1ar typ6 of loefer from becoming rich G<fntfng that most prize fight ersetakes a pslpetuaI oath against useful empioSment the Resentment tof the lawmakers has always seemed to be dfsarfnfnatory as the same oath is part of the ceremony that mast' young men and women paB through when bscomins movie stars, agents for million dollar relief com mfttees. However. no legislature ever picks on those professions.
 The boxing business is never able ta dafend ftseIf because the man-s agerss promoters and fighters who make tiiefr living from the ring do not trust ene another sufficiently to form a strong business organization for defense. They tried it once with supposedly altruistic club called the National Sports Alliance. This be- gam to be a highly elegant affilia7. tfion of tin-eared sportspen, boot leggers and Kindred whatnots. all germane to tfie fight trade.
 Exe.ang Dsssx neauirea. -A14 fsa
 when the sports alliance gave dinner ali guksts were required to wear evening dress. Such laxitfes as I tam shoes and flannel shirts may have been overlooked by the bauncers now and again, but gent always had to have on his monkey suit or he didn't get near tho steak, pie and Euffee.
 However, the National Sports AL Ifance praspered all right until some low character recently cashed forged check for the entire treasury. STogoI and got away with it. All the members suspected one another, and i'm some cases, it might be said that the suspicion was not entirely gratutfous.
 me alliance still exists and will try to do something in defense or Zine boxing business next sunday night. when Senator Jimmy Walker. who devised the present boxing law and saw it through the legislature several years ago. will be present. i. Mope. burns very low. however. lor Senator WaIken. a wfry little feiioW fruua the lower East Side of New YmrIs. who, used to be in the fight 5 business himself, and knows all the 3 IiIttie ways of the game. has been ] ar1atesl as saying he now would not waIHk aerosssslse street to saseystnf ! Malse Toe Mueh Money. sTne. principal objection is the eitampions make too much money. They do make much money, but so far as amy one has been able to as- certain there is no law defining too
 much And if such a law exists II { has newer been involved against Dougras Fairbanks. Madam ale1itza On Henry Ford. The champion Tight CTS. especially Jack Dempsey. have refused to box indoors1any more at aIp because. no available ehcioseo ansphitnsatre would hold q gate Iarge enough to5lmeet their demands. A few wears ago, they were all not oury willing but wildly eager to right indoors. but that was after the long
 
 famine i'm ffStfana.
 Tine death of Frankie Jerome sun day night was deplorable misnap, of course, but much more ,depior- able. because it was avoidable. was the death of Andy Thomas, who stnrxed and sweated himself to death about a year ago in order to make the weight for an impossible match: Thomas collapsed in the final round of a r2-round ffght-.G Jerome's death fS psychoIogiaal1Y untimely. how ever. lit happens when the boxing business, is i'm trouble from other req snnSl ~t, 7 If boxing goes out of business there win still remain some territory i'm which the million dallar spectacles may be promotedl SSenting the braeze a short time agoS Tex Rickard made, arrangementas tA YrTansfer his business to Phfladelplia <where the law now permits 0-rounders and decisions. Jersey has a 12Tround, mo- decision law, but the GeGsey legisla- ture nas been restives ef. late and a general immigration Of the New York flight colony might cause the Sout5 Enwry of .tke husiness on the Jersey o~,,s,I<. 0f 4 anaEA04 wear