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Show GLEAN SPORTS 10 BE. STAGED politics in the bocqjn bvjls.gshrdsh There will be no throat-cutting poll-tics poll-tics in the boxing game in New York slate under the Walker law. according to Major Anthony Drexel Blddle, of the International Sporting club and The Army, Navy and Civilian Board of Control Competition of an honest and j clean variety is goliiK to be en. ourag-' ourag-' ed. but there will be no excursion rates j by promoters who try to outbid and 1 outelo one another In the natter ot staging scraps. 1 his will bo taken care of by these who are appointed by j Governor Smith 1 Throat-cutllng polities among promoters pro-moters featured the mitt sport in New York under the old Horton law anO also under the Kravley law although there was some pretense made at regulation re-gulation under lh lattrr law Under I the Morton law, as many as four and five high class shows were offered on the crime, ilov . - nlhi n.ih thr. mm suit the general publlv suffered while a few fighters raked In huge gobs of coin. Invariably the fighters got the I benefit of having the promoters bid i for their services, and in some cases) the boxers received champion rates without being even close to a title. And In some cases the promoters lost I heavily on their ventures and were: forced to leave the business. OBI TIM I I V. Jeffries. Corbett. Sharkey and a few! of the others of their da' chared in the great boom of the fistic game under un-der the- Morton law. Sharkey recently declared he received more than (TOO,-1 000 for four scraps in New York In I less than one year, and each of the I scraps was staged by the promoter! to beat anothor promoter Sharkey I admitted that none of tho battles were! for a title, but thoy averaged better than $0,000 each. Almost the same condition obtained at San Francisco years ago, when the famo was on the crest of the popularity wave on the Coast The last Jim Jeff-1 rlea Jim Corbetl tight there drew i $t0,000 gate, and this was large fori that time. Corbett and Jeffries got most of the money, because the pro-motor pro-motor had to bid for their services over the bids of several other promoters. pro-moters. Kan Francisco never equalled New York, however, In tho matter of large attendance. In the old days al gae that did not exceed $50,000 was not considered anything great by New ( York promoters. Under the Horton 1 law In New York, politicians had control of the sport almost entirely. |