BOXING

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 270, 10 August 1922, Page 3

BOXING

CHANGES IN SYSTEM OF , CONTROL. , BY TS4SGIUPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, August 9. A conference of the Boxing Council adopted the proposals of a special subcommittee that the system of control be changedP. Three centres are to be established in each island, each controlled by a centre committee of five, elected by the boxing associations Annual centre conferences are to be held, and all tournaments are to be con-, trolled by the local centres. The territories of the six centres have yet to be defined. . . Tho percentages on professional purses were increased by 2| to 5 per Tlie centres are recommended to form judges and referees’ associations. The Australian championships 191/ agreement is to be carried out with championships at Hobart in 1922 and at Melbourne in 1923. The council s representative at the Hobart meeting is to support the council s views, expressed at the Sydney conference, that continuance of the Australasian championship so far as New Zealand is co - cernpd depends upon a more equitable financial basis being agreed to. QnlesS this is done New Zealand will ®ie no guarantee to remain a party to tne aS ThTcouncil is recommended, on the formation of centres, forthwith to restitute steps in the direction of providin'- for the formation of a judges ai d referees’ association in connection with each centre. -