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Show Additional Sports New York Boxing Board Benefits Fighting Game Coirunisaion Haa Overstepped Powers on Few Occasions I champion. Oreb ducks matches at his own weight .-and shouts his de-sir de-sir to fight Jack Uempsey. 'By Henry L. Farrell f sited Pi a Sssrt BdJtee. NKW YORK. Aug. 11 (By V. P.) Assuming a rather dictatorial rul over boxing, th New York state commission has don much to : promo t th Intereata of the sports and th benefits derived hav not been confined to th territory under Its Immedlat Jurisdiction. While many rule hav been made that seemed absurd and evrstp-ping evrstp-ping th bounds of th commission's commis-sion's suthortty wbe thy were first passed, som of thm prov to hav been based em faralghted Judgment. If th commission did nothing sis, tts most radical step In declaring de-claring forfeited th title of champions who revueed to fight wori hy challengers brought th flyweight, featherweight and middleweight mid-dleweight titles out ef hock aad put them back Into competition. The right of th commission te ml out Johnny It 1 1 ban, Jhnay Wilson, Mickey Walker and Jo Lynct as champions was scoff J at when th commission acted, but the fact remains that ihr are new flyweight and feather eight cham- Elons, and Wilson. M'alker aad ynch have been foreee into the de-fen de-fen of their tit lea While their Judgment was eome-Umes eome-Umes questioned, th sincerity and honesty of th commissioner never hav doubtd and thy hav beea right as many times as wrong. There remains much yt to be accomplished ac-complished and the commissi 6 a might well devote a little, attention atten-tion te th "class Jumping" champions. cham-pions. It has become the popular custom cus-tom for a new champion to ssi competition la a heavier Class no sooner than h has reached th top of th boa ere at his own weight. Pancho Villa won ths world's flyweight fly-weight championship an J then started campaigning among th bantamweights asd announced himself him-self as ready to fight Jo Lyach. Lynch Ignore the challenges of baatams and seeks works among th featherweights. Beany Leonard, Leon-ard, although he msy be escueed becsus of th wide margin by which he outclassed all lightweights, light-weights, wants to fight Mickey Walker for th welterweight championship. cham-pionship. Walker, although be would he tn danger with several weltorwelghts seeking wiatchea with him, has espressd his willingness will-ingness to fight Johnny Wilson. m1l die weight champion, aad Harry Oreb, former light-heavr welsht |