Show u California Executive T Titular i ular 1 Bout Boutt 1 ASKS u. u s. s FOR Y RESTRICTIONS ON p PASSPORTS Declares It His Ills Duty Duly to Rid Kid State of Evil In Influences cry Growing Gro Out of Such Pugilistic Encounters as Battle Proposed Carpentier S SACRAMENTO J CrL Cul Jan 11 Go 11 Gov William D. D Stephens of California announced today that he would ask the fe federal eral government go at atash Wa ash shafts ton tOll to impose passport restrict restrictions ous that would woula prevent lc the proposed world world championship bout between Jack Dempsey an and ca Carpentier f ilex flex lust just aro across the border li line from ro 1 C California 1 G ot stat sta ement I rot fot lows lovs I According to press dispatches it 15 y proposed that a prizefight between bathe i. i Jack Jaek Dempsey and Georges C Carpenti t shall be bo held at Tijuana Just leNS across the Mexican border The negotiations negotiation I and plans arc are going goin forward In a large part within tho state of oC California to t disrespect to the la law thereof It sir Ii planned to step across the border a as there something that j 15 is unlawful within our state and thus clr di our statutes 4 It lt is my dut duty to command rul respect t for tho the laws of oC California I shah s therefore be obliged If It necessary IV W make male protest to the federal g goveS ti o ment and request that it exercise exe t lu its powers of ot regulation and control o othe of the international boundary s so as al fa I prevent tho the holding of oC this contest J Tho people of oC California have ha rt re I fused to tolerate the evil Influence s growing out of oC suck pugilistic tors tars and have declared them t to bt be ua U I lawful Those Intolerable would be tho Janie me If Ie tho the contest were held in Tijuana as if it held in n San Diego or elsewhere lu in our state 1 Under tinder normal International rela lions a a protest l on the part pan Of or ibis country to the Mexican government o t against nc anything near the Loul ait lino that would would- be bo offensive l e to 10 th tb people of California would 1 be effective Inasmuch as no ench soch diplomatic relations exist I fh shall app peal to our federal government to ploy Its Us authority at tho the border lin line so as lS to make impossible this defiant cf c the law of California |