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Show COFFROTH HOLDS UP PUMBEKFIT Rockefeller's Decision to Accept Money 'Indirectly' Upsets Promoter. , NEW YORK, Nov. 7, Plans for bxlng exhibitions in New York and other cities throughout the country In connection with the campaign of the united war work council to raise $170,500,000, were held up today. The announcement by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a member of the executive ex-ecutive committee, that subscriptions to the fund raised by boxing might be accepted ac-cepted if given "indirectly," caused James W. Coffroth to call a temporary halt to I the plans. Whether Coffroth shall go through with I his plan will be decided at a meeting here I with his associates. Coffroth and his j friends feel that boxing has been placed I in an undesirable light by the action of the executive committee. The report that the united war workers' committee would refuse to accept anv money raised through boxing or accept any money derived from golf or other games played on Sunday, created a furor among sportsmen. The statement was quickly denied, and the affair straightened out, and only resulted in bringing to public pub-lic attention the vast amount of good accomplished ac-complished by sports. There will never be any question about the leading part played by sports in all branches of the service in training, entertaining en-tertaining and maintaining the army and navy at home and abroad":- Boxing has beea the greatest direct help of all. and golf, played on Sundays and holidays, has been the means of producing the biggest revenue for all war charities. After the war sports will reap the harvest har-vest of their efforts. All branches of athletics ath-letics will flourish as never before, and there is little doubt but that boxing will be reestablished on a high plane throughout through-out the country. |