New Britain herald., 1927-10-13
MANDELL TO BE DEPRIVED
 OF LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE
National Boxing Association to Void Championship at Convention In Toledo Sunday - Legislation by Commissions Is Killing Fight Game Joe Dundee Only Boxer Sure of Unquestioned Crown - New York Athletic Body Makes Ridiculous Rulings.

New York, Oct. 13 tUP)-The sport of boxing already has suffered from too much legislation in New York state.
 The local athletic commission has become fairly notorious for rldicu- lous rulings. which as its insistence q little more than year ago, that Harry Wills was the logical contend CT for tle heavyw eight champion ship and it's haphazard awarding of titles.
 Match-making, price fixing and other activities which were no legitimate part of the New York commissions business caused gener- a, dissatisfaction.
 Now it seems that the business of laglslating the fight game "Ad Ab- surdum' is 10 be taken up on Il national scale.
 Eighteen states and four foreign nations are affiliated with the Ma tional Boxing Association of the United States which meets in annual convention in Toledo next Sunday,
 The first important action of the National Boxing Association, we are told, will be to deprive Sammy Mandell of Rockford Illinois, of his title as lightweight champion of the world.
 Probably Sammy deserves it. Ger tainly he hasn't gone out of his way to look for suitable oppononts-from the pubic's point of view. At least since he won the title from Rocky Kansas on a Chicago decision 15 months ago.
 But one hesitates to think how far the business of legislating the boxing business may be carried.
 It is said that the associations s plan is to toss the lightweight title into a sort of battle royal in which Sid Ferris, Phil McGraw. Billy Wal lace and Lou. C&id) Kaplan will compete. Sammy Mandell is to be given short count for his failure to defend the championship against a worthy opponent.
 There seems to be danger of over legislation in this respect. There IS TO telling where the national asso- citation will stop. if it's absolutee au- thority over the sport is recognized and confirmed.
 Things may reach the stage where loud speakers such as Leo P. Flynn, James J. Johnston and other man. aeers will he running to the N. B. A. before and after every fight, get ting out injunctions and generally getting the game all snarled up In red tape.
 Walk Miller, who manages Tiger Flowers, will be at Toledo next week squawking his head off about Mickey Walkers failure 10 give the Georgia Deacon a return bout Tor the middleweight championship
 It has been proven right h"re in New York, to look no further for an example, that the more boXlng commission interfcres with the transfer of boxing titles, the worse 1t is for the game as whole.
 No thanks are due to any commls- sion that Gene Tunney is heavy weight champion. If the New York commissioners had been permitted 10 have their way, Jack Dempsey would have fought Harry Wills a year ago. instead of Gene. The fight would not have been held in New York, of course, nor anyWher" else where a prejudice against mix cd bouts of such importance exists But the commission insisted upon the bout and had to do prompt about-face 10 get in line for recoe- ntjion of the present champion after Gene had whipped Jack at Phlla- delphia.
 The commission drove Jack De lanov out of the light heavyweight championship hauded it 10 Mix" McTigue and then sat back and watched Mike McTigue knocked of by Tommy Loughran. who is cer- tainly no real champion.
 Proceeding down the classes, II seems that the National Boxing As sociation will have something to say about the mfIdleWoight title, 1h" lightweight title the fcatherW"ight title and the flywoight title. Already It has voted tlc bantam crown to Blonde Bud Taylor of Torre Haute,
 Aside from Gene Vunney, in whose affairs the various conmis- sions apparently are too wise to monkey. Joe Dundee Of Baltimore seems about the only champion whose title will not be brought into question when the talking starts al Toledo. Which IS somewhat of a ioke. for if there ever was a non fighting champ, 1t is the cag"y young Italian.
 There may be somo phases Of the boxing business which will be h"'- tered by q guiding hand but in gen craI it would seem wiser to trust 10 the r1oved fist 10 determine who's v ho among tho champions.