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Show I Boxing Bouts Prohibited By Police Chief Grant J Lid Clamped Down Tightly on the Padded Mitt Game In Salt Lake City H': r a illis Mil is on tho boxing same In I Salt I.l;c. H' ; I According to Police Chief B. Hi l X F Grant, It !s clamped on tightly H' and wlJi remain ho during r.ja H;. trm of office. Admirers of the noble 'J art of biff will no longer have, the. op- portunlty In tills city of seeing boxers exchange punches nor hoar the referees t' stirring admonition to "break away. Chief Grunt's decision wiw announced H" 'esierday when he wnH asked to sanc-i sanc-i . lion a boxing nvhlbltlon. tho proceeds lo t.c given "Chalky" Gcrmains, who was Injured in ii recent boxing bout at the IK Salt Lake theater, and who is still In a ; hospital as a result of that Injury. The l ilef save an emphatic refusal to Issue iH a permit for tho proposed exhibition. 'J and further minted thai he will withhold H' 'Ms i-anrlion from all such bouts In the iHr future. PH; h the rlty eommfaslon In n resolution H.j pah"'!! recently Invested the police chief ) with authorltv to decide on th question tf permitting boxlnir contests In tho iH ty. IiIh decision Is final, and the death j knell of boxing In Salt Lako has been IHk sounded. '! While Chler Grant would not state iH 1 thnl the serious Injurv to Germalno do- ' rided the fate of the mitt Ram In this 1 ilt. I Ik a fact that the near-fatally PHI Is responsible for his rullntr. "It seems Impossible." said the chief last night, 1 "to prevent a so-called boxing contest from becoming x prize fight. Whl e the law permits contosts of skill with the padded mitts, It specifically prohibits prise fights and on that account I can no longer sanction BO-caJled boxing contests." con-tests." . . . Gcrmaine and "Yankee" Alien mot in a ten-round semi-final to the Brewer-Rowan Brewer-Rowan bout October 10 nt the Salt Lake theater. In the ninth round Germalno, who hnd not trained faithfully for the contest, suddenly collapsed as much from his own exertions as from the effects ef-fects of the blows administered by his opponent. Allen landed a hard swing which sent Germalne through the ropes, his head striking the floor with great force. He was revived with difficulty, and as his condition was serious, he was taken to a hospital where physicians pronounced him suffering from concussion concus-sion of the brain. He Is greatly Improved but is still confined to his bed. Harry w. Hengren, who promoted the exhibition, said tho occurrence was an accident which could hardly have been foreseen. "If tho boxer had fallen In the ring, tho padding under tho canvas covering would have saved him from Injury," he said; "but he fell through the ropes, his head striking tho hare floor, and this was responsible for the damage." The refusal of Chief Grant to permit boxing contests In the city puts an end to planB for several bouts that have been under consideration. |