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Show FATE OF FIGHT GAME ON COAST IN DOUBT Rumors form the Pacific coast regarding re-garding tho future fate of boxing in California assume varied and contradictory contradic-tory forms. According to one report it is planned to kill the fistic sport by means of ballot in November and substitute sub-stitute a law which will allow bettiug on races. Another report has it that the petition circulated by the euemies of the boxing game was thrown out of the county clerk's office in Los Angeles when it Was discovered that scarcelv 50 per cent of the siguers wore legalized legal-ized voters, and that consequently the flove artists were safe in following heir profession for at least another year. The closing of the game in California would be a sad blow to the "coves wot loves a mill," for in no other part of the country have so many real championships cham-pionships been decided. Tho legal status of boxing is firmly established in New York state, but the limiting ol' the bouts to ten rounds and the provoking pro-voking clause which prohibits the rendering ren-dering of a verdict by referees are stumbling blocks which handicap all concerned badly. The barring of the gates of the coast pugilistic Mecca to the scrappers would fee a genuine calamity from a sporting viewpoint. With California dead to the flstic world some of those high-priced gentlemen who demand extraordinary prices for their swatting labors would find themselves peddling their wares on an oversupplied and extremely limited market. |