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Show MINNESOTA BOXING COMMISSION AGREES 1 TO WILLARD-FULTON BOUT ON JULY d ST PACT. Minn., April 22 Th Minnesota boxing commission, after B long conference with Promoter J. C. Miller late today voted unanimously o approve the pioposed Willard-Ful -ton fight at St. Paul on July 4. The i run m i - - ion and i 'olonel Milh r reached an agreement whereby Wil-lard Wil-lard and Fulton will receive their liar.- of Ihe fight in Liberty bonds bought at par in the Twin Cities. Colonel Col-onel Miller agreed to give 12', per cent of the gross receipts to the Red Cross, or the government recreation fund, and he also agreed to donate 25 per cent of all money received from the fij-'ht pictures to the war recreation recrea-tion fund. In addition to these donations, Colonel Col-onel Miller will pay 10 per cent of the gross fight receipts to the state, as required re-quired hy law This money would go to the Minnesota lubereulosls fund. There also is a government war lax of 10 per rent on every ticket sold. k also was pointed out that the showing of tho fight pictures would yield another large sum to the government govern-ment in the form of war tax. II was estimated that the fight might attract a capacity house and that the ?gross receipts in that, case, would htM $150,000. if the pictures yielded slmT liar returns, the var recreation fnni'ifl would be enriched S37 500 from thafl latter income, while the same fund nr9 the Red Cross, would receive ?18 7BB from the fight. The state would WW 116,000 in tax receipts and so would! the government. The sovr-mmentl would also collect the tax on the show 1 int: of the pictures. The agreement caused person who! attended the oonff rence m rumDUI 1 thai the ficlit would yield about SlOn'J fl various war activities, if Cnione'i-l ; Millers estimates of the fight and pf ture earnings were correct 1 Tt"' tati safety commission vflJ meet tomorrow to pass upon the quefcfl Hon of permitting the contest. The ic-m ci ion of the boxing commission will be laid before the safety com mission -1 era and it is und-r-tr,d n, Mji'i-.j will be present. " r I Colonel Miller declared this after-fl noon thai he waf nil hopeful of stae 1 ing the fight in St Paul ..n Julv J 'butfl that he was willing to talk anv thn with army officers at Camp Grant 'm When he made this statement ho had noi yet received the dispiirh from! H II Bern, repr. , mm; Camp Granl 1 |