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Show HING GAME DIES IN HEW .YDBKTHURSMY - Selfish Promoters and Fighters Blamed for Clamping of Lid. By Tribune Special Sport Service. X DV YORK. Xov. 1 0 . W i t h t h ileaih of ihe Krawler law, next Thur--day, Xoveniber lo, lealire-1 boxing in Now York will be a dead bird, acd tho tJouimac-Uii position tbe Expire state has Iicll in fir?tic ciro for a number of years will be s-wej't away. Ihroaiot-ws of boxiuc largely r- poniblo tor the death of Ut? loaii.-f i atr.e. The. lax methods t:sed in cor.-.Mu':irii: cor.-.Mu':irii: Itoxir.i: hows and" the "pnblp-bo "pnblp-bo hjiice'l" spirit of a ir.a;.oritv cf rr-?-niott-rs did ir.ore than anything else to up sot Kin? I'm: in this ioiiiity. The ents who depend en boxing for a living, at leas; many of ihem, wi".' probably seek other fields. This coe-for coe-for both boxers acd promoters, but the-e will be a number who will s:i-:k aroun i. and the promoters who do not eo out c: business will make an attempt, to run boxinp -ihows on the old clcb plan. Governor Gov-ernor Whitman hinted in a eortferenoe held some month? a.o at Albany that thi? plan micht be followed without in- m-terference. m-terference. but there is no certainty ot u. so the outlook is none too encour- x Will Go Elsewhhere. With N'v York out of the field o" le-iHlired boxing the renter of pugdorti is bound to be moved elsewhere, and brj bouM of the future will probably b-1 shitted to the middle west, or even to t h e f a r a a v sent h w e st . where s e v e r:. '. pro:r.oters are ficurinj already on stag a eries of ehamp':onhip Vouts. The ten-ror.nd no-deeision ,came was all too sM't for both boxers and pro-notiTs. pro-notiTs. The boxers tok advaniace of it and the promoters qp all steamed up afp't they had accumulated a few dol lars of ihe easiest coin in the vorld. nnd thev simply let the came go to the doiis. It is the 5ame nearly evei y tn h'Te ' no-vieeUion bout are in oguo. and th. future center of boxing, as far as bont of big importance are com erned, sanub; be moved to some state where divisions are permitted. In Other Stales. There are t wenty-throe nt es w here boxing is iegaiired and under some form of state or local control. The conditions in these staio. with tho number of rounds permitted, are as follows: rennv Kama has six and tcvprvmr.d boul s but no doc iions ; New 11 au:p-siiire. au:p-siiire. twelve rounds to a division: Geor-gia, Geor-gia, fi f toon rounds to a decision ; rennet ren-net i cut , twenty rounds to a decision ; M a ssacliuset ts, twob e rounds to a decision de-cision ; M a r y 1 a n d . f f t ee n ro v, n d to forty rounds to a decision; South ' are-lina. are-lina. fifteen rounds, nt v'harioston- onl ; 1 v !i o ! Inland, f i f 1 1 vn and twentv round ? ; Tennessee, ei glit rounds U a decision ; Ohio, f i ft eon rounds to a do- a cisuvti; Louisiana, twen'v roun.is to a decision; 1 .iv.iisiana, twen'v rounds to a tlecisiou ; Maine, si x rounds- t o a decision: decis-ion: Texas, twenty rounds to a decision; t ah fivrnia. only four rounds, no de-ciiion; de-ciiion; AUnneNot a, ten round?, no decision de-cision ; Kansas, fifteen round to a de eisiou; Nevada, twenty romitls to a de-c de-c i s i ti n ; on t a n a , t wen t y rou r. d s to a tlccispin: Oklahoma, ton "rounds to a do oiion; Missouri, tele rounds to ft do icisum; Miehijcan. boxing onlv a'dowed j at 1lks and llagle' shows; Wisconsin, ten rounds, no tbcision. |