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Show AUSTRALIA FORBIDS THROWING OF TOWEL Fighter's Second Cannot Offer Token of Defeat. Contended That When Boxers Ar Fighting Referee Is Wholly Competent Com-petent to Judge of Condition of Each Scrapper. It is learned from Australian papers pa-pers that a fighter's second has no right to toss a towel into the ring as a token of defeat for his man. This happened when Charles, the French middleweight, lost to Billy Shade. W. F. Corbett, in the Sidney Referee, has this to say regarding the manipulation manipula-tion of the laandry : "The throwing In of the towel from the French angle recently caused a great deal of talk. In my report ol the contest I referred to a stadium rule which debarred seconds from Interfering. In-terfering. The referee only was allowed al-lowed to stop a battle. For some time this provision wns rigidly Insisted on, but after a while It became more noticed no-ticed In the breach than the observance. observ-ance. The management has now decided de-cided to prevent an occurrence similar to that of the other night taking place In the future. They will not Interfere In-terfere with the throwing up of the wipe while the boxer concerned Is In his corner for the minute's spell unless un-less It appears to them that doing so is unwarranted'. But no second shall be permitted to declare his principal beaten while a round Is In progress. It is contended, and correctly, that when boxers are fighting the referee sees as much as the seconds and is equally, or more, competent to form an opinion as to whether one or the other man is In such a condition that he should not be allowed to continue." |