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Show NEW ORLEANS MAYOR STOPS SUNDAY BOUT By International News Service. NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 22. Mayor Martin Mar-tin Bohr man today refused lo issue a permit for a. boxing bout between Fred Fulton (white) and Harry Wills tnero at the Tommy Burns arena tomorrow a fternoon. Without the city's official permit, the contest cannot be held. "In the liist place." the mayor explained ex-plained . "1 am opposed to the matching of wld'-1 and negro pugilists in New Orleans, Or-leans, and in the second place. I am opposed op-posed to the holdlns of sparring contests on Sunday. I shal'l not, therefore, authorize au-thorize a permit for the contest between Fred Fulton and Harry Wills. No negro can ever fight a whit man in New Orleans Or-leans so long as I am mayor." Tlie Burns management had announced the Fulton-Wills bout as a ''workout' to get tlie white giant in condition for his clash next Friday night with Porky Flynn. |