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Show Jflii Hi" hhi iin inif Hint t imiiiiiiii jjjj ij ijji II III I il I i 1111 i n,H I ' '! ii hliii Hill lllllllllnii I mi limit inimiill mi liiniiiiiiilll lii!!iiiiiilll Inn tin! llll lllliilliilll Why not give our boxers ratings , Like We do our tennis t in Sq license boards could judge 'cm To avoid those wot-up j i It would make the burly tighter i i to smooth his pstic style: And we'd soon be having better cards; Not tho kind that make us smile. The handling of the ring game by State boxing commissions has pfovi n to be a Idg step In improving fistlana. The pubHc pays the freight, and It Is the first to comment on rlmr affairs i when It t;ets a row deal. Money Zealous iu.in.i'' i nnd promoter- are In the business for other purposes pur-poses than their health and sp iidlm: their lime. I The suggestion thaht all boxers bi given ratings similar to the plan followed fol-lowed in tennis sound- like a mighty good guide book to the boxing commissions. com-missions. if matchmaker had something! tangible to work with other than the natural compiirbantar) remarks which .any Wlde-awaVe msinagcr will attach to his fighter, the set-up evil could he avoided more effectively. Practically every fight of recent date has t.i-. ii follow.. I bj a wall from thl public that it had been cheated which all remind- One Of "holtliiK the door after the horse Ikis been stolen." I The time to protect thi tans from the one-sided fights is before thej pull off the show not after I The muchly ovor-tyicwritten lulk' Of ehOOSini.' .1 Sllllllhl, opnonelU f,. lack Dempsey has brought up the suggestion for the classification of li envy Weights, hut it might be applied to all divisions of boxers. It is dead easy to pill over a set-up match The general procedure Is to put the card in the hoppei and lot the so e. lied experts play It over a few meS oh their pianos. Some hammer and some boost, and Mister General Public swallows all of It. Naturally, being optimistically in-i in-i linnl. f ins give it their ok and lay lhclr bank notes on the rail-After rail-After leaving tho arena they geu-erally geu-erally take oath not to support another an-other sucker match Rut. because they are boxing tuns, they soon forget .md go back for more So tin- classifying of boxers listens like a fine proposition. It would give all concerned a line on the game. Even the fighters themselves would profit by such a plan. |