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Show PROMOTERS TALK OF DISCIPLINING KILBANL A concerted movement ipt ftfoot to bar Johnny Kilbane, (he world's featherweight champion, from participating: in a bout in I this country for a period of; three to six months. This in the nnnishment tbe American Boxing association would inflict upon Kilbane for Ids lhtsco with Cal De-laney, De-laney, a former span-in partner of the champion, in Cleveland several sweek ago. If only this penalty could be enforced, , it would be the meiins of doing away with many fiircical exhibitions by leading lead-ing boxers. The ;om'mercialized boxer of . the present day looiks upon the fight-loving fight-loving populace as a community of "suckers" and treats it accordingly. The various boxing commission' have been rather lax iri their methods, and only on rare occasions have they suspended sus-pended prominent boxers for even a brief period. Thn agafn, the suspensions were local, and held only in that section in which the offense was committed, which permitted the guilty parties to ply their trade somewhere, else unLil the ban was lifted. But If the many controlling bodies of boxing In the different states would eet together and work for their mutual benefit, bene-fit, they could devise a set of regulations that would nbt.Un throughout the country coun-try and which; the boxers would obev implteitlv or suTTer the consequences A national commission govprnlng box-incr box-incr is an absolute necessity if the game Is to be preserved. H |