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Show BOXING BILL IS NOW ON CALENDAR BY w n B The farorable report handed In ; eetcrdajr by the Jndlrlary ternittes af the lower house of the Uub legislature on the Krtebal boxing Uw haa (lraa the friends of clean boxing tvtrj reason to feel Joyous. Tbe bill haa goat on tha calandar. rrlanda of tka bill argue that no appropriation U call ad for, aad declare) on tha othar hand that tha state then! d profit aararal thonaand dollars aav n tally from the par cant allowed to it a f tha froaa receipt at every boxing mnA wrMtllnir shear atued In Utah. The Ktieb. MU does not, tn the (Uriel nK legalise honing. It simply resru-latss resru-latss and imnliw It Rosing In UsU" la not illegal. It needs n statute to give It standing. The Krlebel hill does not undertake to dignify boning ln tbe eyes of tha law. but 1 does say. la effect, that the? things appurtenant to tha seme that era either Illegal or objectionable uuat hr elimlnatad or regulated, so that an inherent 1 in no ent paetim. sparring, shall nt hsve the sspe t of Illegality. The Krlebel bill merely aeaumae that j boxing le a llcrneable paeilme. and, bains o, must be duly aupervlaad and i asm lated Thin la a perfWtlv rational pre r boxing hava ajwnya maintained that Hie sport la not illegal Thay have cotv at df rw, 1 it perfectly legitimate form of entertainment, and to lark on the SS latin law prohibiting prise flgMIng a tail piece In tha ahapa of tha inevitable pro i bo thai boxing ahal) not be considered consid-ered prise fighting, would be no more consistent than to attach to a murder statute u provision that rvery man with i knife n hie possession ehall not he deemed a murderer. That eort of thing, of course. t imlpably ridiculous. The. Krlebet bill . onefdera the question In a rational way. Pounded i.n the aseump-tlon aseump-tlon that sparring la all rtht. it Impliedly Im-pliedly reogalss semi a or the at lends St evlla by throwing around the same that -areful reguJstlon whirh lie Incidental I foaturee lnvlta And thia la ail ih-Krtebel ih-Krtebel hill doea. 1i rni-lv rpeognlaea boxli.s and than eerwa notluo that H muat behave. Cvarytlilntt 'onaldred. tha Krlebel Ml) Neema to handle the altuatloQ In a rea -aonahtP way Thare le cenulne puldU: demand for boxing, aad it will be fur nUhed That la inevitable. Why not prearrense thlnaje so that whan ever It doea occur it will be hedged about by rerulatoi and reetiicllVe provision whirh win remove from the came thoee in- Idental featurea which hava tended to hi ma it into dlarapute la some quarters quar-ters ? The scheme of tha Krlebel hill a worth) wor-th) of seiioua. ihoughtful onalderatton. and jodsment on the subject should s' least be reserved until every aspect of It has been carefully considered |