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Show 1-1 WANT LAW REPEALED, h ' Statutes Governing Prize-fighting Open-if Open-if ly Violated' in Iowa. ' i. . ' Tribune. Special Sporting Service. DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 1. Shall r Iowa, again tolerato sparring matches, ' if a question which may be put seri-i seri-i ! .J ously to the Legislature this winter, ji r Under the present statute oven tho ! ; 3 moving pictures of a. prize-fight held in ff 'Australia cannot be displayed in the .? State legally-. J In Davenport and other river towns 1 fights are held all the timo in violation f of the law, but by common consent of J; tho people,, and there is a movement A . among tho sporting men of tho State ,i -to havo the present law repealed, so , that sparring matches can be pulled off 1 under the sanction of the State, j .Mac Connolly, a sporting promoter, ,1 vi las offered to pay a license of $1000 a f j month for the privilege of holding spar-JR spar-JR matches m Des Moines. Saloons arc now licensed for $100 a month, rjj , Connelly says there is a demand among ' the people "for this athletic cntcrtain-jj cntcrtain-jj ment to such an extont that a large Jill Ji-ll cense feo could bo paid. It is con-th? con-th? fiidercrl certain that a law will bo draft-cd draft-cd and introduced in tho Legislature ml1 permitting the municipal licensing of V sparring matches. in- The present stringent law was passed at a session of the Legislature during , mj which sparring matches had become W very popular. The Legislators went to It ' one in a body one night, and it hap- penod tho match turned out; a rank fake. In their disgust tho legislators next morning passed tho present law, which even prevents the showing of fighting pictures. Connelly, the man who says the privilege privi-lege of pulling off bouts in Des Moines is worth .$12,000 a year, has for the last few years bnen engaged in "wrecking "wreck-ing engines" throughout the country, llo formerly playod ball in tho National league. |