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Show NEW YORK PAYS HEAVILY JOR FIGHTS A report of the New Tork athletic eommiulon. which haa had charge of boxing bout, under the Frawley law. showa that New Torkers hav. spent 24, fruit. 28, to aee boxing as exemplified In New Tork for five yeara This Is one of ths best argument, !n favor of the repeal of the law which has encouraged fakea. frauds and ths exploitation ex-ploitation of a gulNble public. Boxing fane are eaally fooled, which In Itself la a pretty good raaaon .for a great commonwealth like New York to refuse to be aponaer for a law which will permit per-mit thes. buneoee. The law itaelf. properly sdmlnlatered. might hav. .ncouraged good boxing wrongly admlniatered It resulted In permitting per-mitting promoters end msnagers to get away with some of the rawest atuff ever totaled on an unsuspecting public. IHuing the entire life or ine rrawiey taw there waa not a champlonahlp changed hands In New Tork. There was not a battle of Importance that Impartial critic did not denounce for this or that res eon. Homethlng always wss wrong. We can recall a half a doaen or more bouts In which Freddie Welsh was permitted per-mitted to stall through while be collected good coin and disregarded th catcau of th mulcted public. Jeaa Wlllard stalled through tan rounds of comedy which waa a disgrace to the ring. The nubile paid. Thia and that boxer, ranging from mediocre te fair, have burlesqued through ten rounds of so-called boxing tlm. and time again and no effort haa been made te make them give the spectators what they have paid for. Four million dollars teased away to a bunch of cheap fighters and crooked promoter pro-moter It la Just aa well the law waa repealed. |