Show LEY BILL IS VETOED VETO Boxers Can Spar for Sports Sake but Box Office End En Go Albany N Yf Y May 4 Governor Hughes tonight sent to the senate his veto veto of ot the Frawley boxing bill blU The bill passed both houses last lastar year ar but Governor Higgins allowed It to die in the period comment V The amendment proposed by the bill provides that sparring ex exhibitions exhibitions with gloves of ot not less than eight ounces each h f weight wight may be he beheld beheld held by the Metropolitan association of the thEl A A U C tot Iii his veto message Governor Hughes points out that the section as it now stands does not prohibit sparring exhibitions for the purpose of ot pure sport It prohibits such exhibitions when an admission fee is charged or re received received received This restriction has been maintained In the public interest as It does docs not Interfere with the sport itself but has haf been found he says to furnish practicable means for or preventing the abuses that creep In when such exhibitions arc are given for the purpose of ot gain The bill is not necessary to support a wholesome interest in boxing as a sport The Th There e es is no reason why ama amateur amateur amateur athletic associations should not encourage encourage It and why lovers of the sport should not engage in It under suitable conditions This they can do without charging an admission fee for exhibitions The wise policy polley of the state stat to prevent the tho excesses which are certain to result if the sport is arti art artificially artIficially stimulated by permitting pay exhibitions should be adhered to The act respecting the original proviso was approved by Governor Roosevelt and the act proposing a new proviso very similar to the one now proposed was vetoed by Governor Higgins I |