Show v f NEW w YORK YO K BO J Il G COMMiSSION COMMISSION T TAKES AK UP GENE C NE TUN TUNNEY'S YS Y'S CASE CASE GETTY LAUGHS LAUGHS LAUGHS' HEARTILY AT GOTHAM BODY Fight Dir Directors to Act No One Regards Action I as Serious By FRANK GETTY United Press Sports Sports' Editor NEW YORK March 1 23 The 23 The New NewYork NewYork NewYork York boxing commission today scraped up Its chairs coughed Im Impressively Impressively impressively Im- Im and proceeded to take up for consideration the tho case of James Joseph Tunney worlds world's heavyweight champion champlon Taking thing up for consideration tion Is the favorite pastime of this trio once rudely e e- e to as the three dumb duke duke Laying things things' on on the table comes next On this occasion the tile commission proposed to censure Tunney because be be because cause caUS he had failed to comply with its regulations and sign to m meet et a stipulated opponent In defense of his title within six months of his last championship fight WILL MEET ANYONE It Is true that Tunney had llad consented consented con con- senh to mee anyone chosen by byTe Te Tex Richard RIckard and had given his consent within the required period but the the boxing commission commission commission commis commis- sion do not allow for Tex RIckard He Is the tile cx exception that proves the rules Since Gene Tunney is Billy Muldoon's Muldoon's Muldoon's Mul- Mul doon's pet it was certain that the commissIons commission which still Is is dominated dominated dominated domi domi- by the thunder of the theold old Homan Roman noman Ro no- man would not be too hard with the champion Moreover at the eleventh hour it was discovered that Tunney's li license license li- li cense to box in New York state had bad expired last lat August so so the board had no opp opportunity to to suspend suspend suspend sus sus- pend Gene even If it it wished to todo todo todo do so MAY BECOME INELIGIBLE There remained the option of placing the champion upon the In Ineligible Ineligible ineligible In- In eligible list This maneuver was resorted to In the case of Jack Dempsey when Chairman Jim Faricy Farley Farley Far Far- ley icy was trying to force Ja Jack k Into a match with Harry V Wills ill s. s Meanwhile no one regards very seriously anything the boxing commission corn com mission may decide to todo to-do do by way of ot censure where Gene Tunney Is concerned I |