Show Awards r At Boxing Dinner I NEW YORK Jan 23 UP Survivors P-Survivors Survivors of the New York boxing boxing boxing box box- ing writers' writers annual eating and drinking derby were buzzing toda today to to- today i da day with talk of a hall of fame f for r the sport and a campaign to I curb punch Actually last nights night's party in Ruppert Ruppert's Ruppert's Rup- Rup pert's pert brewery was put on to present the Edward J J. J Nell memorial award to middleweight champion Tony Zale as the man who did the most for boxing In 1946 The trophy is awarded In memory of at the Associated Press sports writer and war correspondent killed during the civil strife in Spain in 1938 Former Former Former For For- mer Postmaster General James Jamea A. A Farley a onetime New York boxing commissioner made the presenta presenta- tion More A Awards ward In addition the Gary Ind steel teel mill mm also alao took home the tho Ring Magazines Magazine's award as 1946 fighter tighter of ot the year Promoter Mike Jacobs now recovering from a cerebral cerebral cerebral hemorrhage won the boxing writers' writers trophy for long and meritorious meritorious meri meri- service to the sport and the Damon Runyon cancer fund was given part pan art of at the dinner dinners proceeds But aside ulde from the throwing posy-throwing for Zale and Uncle Mike alike Jacobs the large hangover from the oratorical cal eruption was left by the suggested sug sug- plans for the Hall of Fame and the drive in New York to keep fighters from winding up with bells ringing in their heads Those old sparring partners the National Boxing Ann Asen and the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York state athletic commission each took credit for tor one of these thue devel devel- Hall Ball of Fame Film Abe J J. J Greene president of or the theN theN N B A came up with the suggestion for the Hall Han of or Fame built bunt something something some Borne thing along the lines JInes of DC the baseball baseball base bue- ball ban shrine at Cooperstown N. N Y Abe Abc even went so ao far as to pledge the N B A to collaborate with the New York Boxing Writers' Writers on onIt It And Brigadier General John Reed Kilpatrick president of Madison Square Garden offered a part of the proposed new square block Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- den as aa the site foe fos to the hall Then Eddie Eagan New York com com- mIssion chairman without mentionIng mentioning mention mention- Ing ng punch drunkenness revealed that hat the commission Is exercising double pre precautions now not only in examining fighters the days they fight light but in watching their records tram rom bout to bout to determine if It they are aro suited for swatting and capable of or doing same without suffering suffering suf suf- fering permanent bodily harm As a a. result last year alone Eagan said the tho licenses of 61 fighters were revoked for one cue reason or another |