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Show BOXING II NEED OF UPLIFT, CLAIM Board Hopes lo Bring About Change in Conditions Affecting This Sport The army. na n ml civilian board t of boxing control is planning to eliminate elim-inate the boxer who gains his fistic : education entirely In the school of experience, ex-perience, in favor of the lad who acquires ac-quires h'.s first knowledge of the spoit as an amateur This is according to a recent unofficial statement from one high up In the counsels of the self-appointed self-appointed body of the ring g:ime i The contention has been for years thai boxing needed uplift, it has been charged b the besi ft lends of the Sport that Ico manv fighters b-arne.l their trade in the back rooms of saloons and not enough youngsters tooi up the p.isiime as amateurs so that they could advance to the professional profes-sional class via easy stages, and thus bring some prestige to the spoit According to the plan said to have ; been adopted by the national body : those fighters who have taken up tlu game because It offers a primrose path in fame and fortune are doomed to 1 disappointment, Future fighters are going to be required to have more than acknowledge boxing, and this j In the hope that the general tone of I the gams may change. tieorge Dlxoh, Jon Wolcott, Terry M Govern. Stanley Ketchel Billy Pap- ke, and others of the stars of a few years back would be back numbers , Indeed with the new organisation. They are appreciated for what thev ; accomplished In flstlana, but because I of their lack of education and the lack of refinement in some of them. the , assisted unintentionally of course to place i be game In bad jepute In cer-I cer-I tain sections by their conduct after buttles. The new order will not be alarming to I hose fullowera of the game who have been Intimately identified with 'the boxing movement among those clubs fostering the amateur Idea They , point with pride to the fact thut Jiin Corbett, Bob Kitzsimmons, Jm k Mc-lullffe, Mc-lullffe, Lea Darcy, Charley Mitchell, M n '.-iis. and a host of oilier clever lads, graduated from the amateur ranks, and each won fame and for-I for-I lone although they did not In (.y,-r l case retain the fortune part The wonderful impetus given to the boxing game during the war has created new interest in the amateur , Idea. It is predicted thai next fall practically every athletic elub In the ! country wdll install a boxing class oo |