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Show JEFF WOULD I BAR STALLING I Former Champion of World Gives His Views on ' Holding Auent the discussion in .New York regarding the shaping of a code o pre-vent pre-vent boxers from holding and wre3ll-ing wre3ll-ing in the rin?. Urn Jeffries, tormer he. weight, champion xuggcs'.b u rem-edj rem-edj that le said to the best ever oi'fered. refferles trould fhas fighi-era fighi-era 'i peisii in holding, and whore i possible withhold thetr inare of 'he ''I'l.. art oi bold inn nu wrestllni ! wus not mu popular in iny dsy." J . ffriex, "and as a result there was lit-Of lit-Of it done Mi;, tci 'km w when lhey t;ot Into u i mik lhe Were aup posed to haitie. Tie- crowd took car uf the man who tried to stall by hold-ing hold-ing aiid lugging, and uhujIIv they did not lasi long 1'herfs only one waj to rid the game of the evil that is to nasi them Immediately. They n suon tears they me on the wrong side and lhey will change their stvle or get out x tho gome-1 Kid McCov luieb Jeffries' oumior. i McCoy declares the practice of holding ' or tugging at .ni opponent is a stunt lhal has been developed In the past ten 'years. He opines that fistic fans an not as particular now as they used to be. and the Indifference has resulted in the loafers developing some system Lb whi.h lhey can get ihrougn with-'nut with-'nut being hurt. '1 only recall a,fsw boxers who tried I to hold when I was battling. ' said Mc-Cov Mc-Cov , "und we ulwa; s had a remedy for Uhem; we'd simply ilphl them off. The kboxlng authorities are losing a lot of valuable time living to figure a sys-ni sys-ni to beat these birds Give 'em the jiiate, that's sure cure and inside of one I year the gams will he practically free Of loafers." McCoy added that the box-'Ing box-'Ing curies of today penalize the real lighter and make it easrv for the stal ler ' In New York there is an agitatioin Ion to have referees warn boxers who hold three times. If they fail to break 'and fight then, tho agitators would I have them chucked from the ring and I their mone withheld McCoy believe.i Ihe fans ahould stand by the referees and help ihc-m to make boxera fight j The Nc-'.v York code has on' rule Lg nsl holding in the clinches Hut no immediate remedy is suggested oo |