| Show AUSTRALIA FORBIDS THROWING OF TOWEL fighters second cannot offer token of defeat contended that when boxers boxen an AH fighting referee Is if wholly competent to judge of condition of each scrapper it la Is learned from australian papers that a fighters second has no I 1 light I 1 lit to toss a towel into tile the ring as aa it token of defeat fur for his man this happened when charles Cli ailes the french in middleweight lost to billy shade W r F corbett Coi bett lit in the sidney referee ahna this to say reminding regarding the don of tile laundry 1 the I he tin owing in III of the towel from the french angle recently caused a grout grent deal of tulle talk in my report ol of the lie contest I 1 referred to a rule which dt de buried debarres seconds froni in ter loitering fering the referee only was vas allowed to stop a battle for some time tills this provision wits vas rigidly insisted on but after it a while it became more no 4 iced in the breach liea li than the observance the management niana gemont liis has now flow de elded to prevent an occurrence occur reme to that of the other flight taking aklus place lilace in the future they wa not interfere alth nith the throwing up of the wipe ipe while the boxer concerned Is in ills his corner for the minutes spell unless it appears to them honi that doing so Is vim unwarranted an anted but no second shall lie le permitted to declare his principal braten beaten alle a round Is in progress it Is contended and correctly that when boxers are aie fighting the referee C oes es as much ns as the lie seconds and to la equally equall or more competent to form in fin opinion fori ns its ill whether one or the tha ther nian inan Is in such a condition that lie should not ile be allowed to continue |
