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Show iw.ii Fns of mnmi Think There Is Chance of Favorable Law Passing Legislature. NEW YORK. Dec. 21. The resound- ing whack of the padded mitten may he heard in the boxing clubs of New York state again before' many months have passed. Supporters of the boxing game are looking forward lo the coming session of the slate legislature with hopeful Interest, In-terest, for with the election of Allied K. Smith, who is said to be a friend of the mitt game, as governor, thpre is a good chance that boNing may come ba-'k. Friends of boxing who hnvu wide influence in-fluence and the active workers who hope lo bring boxTng b;ick in the Empire sin to are already laying plans for the introduction intro-duction of a boxing bill that, il. IS hoped, will go through without any great amount of opposb ion. Just what the 'groundwork of the bill will bo rem;- ins to he seen, but it is n foregone conclusion that Its sponsors will make it as liberal as they daro, and that it will call for at least ten-round bonis ia said to bf a cert a in t y. Governor-elect miiii, who is keen for the manly nrt of se f-dfense, is ev-pecled ev-pecled !o tell the boosters of the new boxing bill that he will look favorably on the pa. "-sage of a now boxing law, pro- v;dod it precludes any chance of th-- g.i i ne gMt;ng ba-k into the rut m whi I; it formerly traveled. j The a npoin ; me" l of a .ji'.o bo;it-; commission ihat can U oopf-nor..; o,, n j se tha t the sa me is run acrordi ilh Dtp law will J'O nec-spMiy to brins io-ing io-ing back io stay in ibis stale, and its supporters intern! to see thai Mv1 n , ! s-talips s-talips of other ears are nol du;-l:ra;ed. The new boxing law in Jersey is lining lin-ing complied With lo the b-Hier and the game is t h riving in the S-keeter stale. It Is possible Hint the new" bid to be Introduced In-troduced at Albany may be built alone the fame lines as the Jersey bill, with the exception of th number of rounds.. |