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Show Gotham Will Not Permit Increase Boxing Commission Will Not Allow $50 Seats at Rickard's Coming Championship Bout NEW YOTiK, Jan. 17 (UP) iulcs nf tho Now York boxing commission, com-mission, which limit the ,top admission ad-mission price lo a championship mulch to J?25, will not be amended tor Tex Ricktird or any New York promoter, the United Press was informed in-formed today by a source that governs gov-erns boxing in this state with ns much power as commissioner Lan-dis Lan-dis hns over baseball. Ximney Is Signed AVhen Kickard announced in St. Louts that ho had signed Gene Tun-n Tun-n ey to defend the heavyweight championship of the world n the Yankee Stadium next September for a sum that might be $1,000,000 he voiced confidence that he would he able to charge ij0 each for all the ringside seats. There isn't a chance in the world that, the rules of the commission, which provi de for a maximum admission ad-mission price of for a championship champion-ship match, will be changed, the Uniled Press was toUl. In announcing that the Yankee Stadium wo'i!d be the battlefield. Rickard explained that he could not seat as many spnctalors a s he did in the Phihulelj hia stadium where Tunney dethroned Jack Uempsey lust fall, but that a top price of $50 would make the gnie receipts larger. Philadelphia Kagc It does not follow, of course, that Rickard is bound to use the Yankee Stadium. The mayors of Philadelphia Philadel-phia and Baltimore have invited him to consider tho use of huge municipal stadiums in their cities. The powers of boxing in New York feel that Kickard is trying to hold a club over them. It has been pointed out that New York state lost a huge sum in taxes and profits for business men when the commission forced Rickard to rake the Uempsey-Tunney fight to Philadelphia. But the argument enters fhat New York doesn't need the tax money badly enough to let one pro-motor pro-motor or a group of promoters force rhe hand of politicians who do not want their authority I o be q u e s -Uoued by the boxing element |