Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-04-09 | Page 2 | Chicago Mayor Favors Boxing

CHICAGO MAYOR I FAVORS BOXING Chicago, April 8. William Hale Thompson, mayor-elect of Chicago, favors fa-vors boxing for Chicago and Illinois ii the sport is properly conducted and regulated, he asserted today. He indicated, in-dicated, however, that he intends ;o leave the question of whether this city is to have the glove sport with the state legislators A bill to legalize legal-ize this sport has been Introduced it Springfield. "1 am strong for all kinds of clean athletic sports and that includes biv ing," the mayor-elect said "Any sport in which training la necessary makes a good contest and an interest ing one. A bout between equally matched and well trained athletes provides pro-vides the right competition. "Boxing in Chicago would he great if we could have it go erncd und'-r j laws which prevail in New York and Wisconsin "