BOXERS' ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 23

BOXERS' ASSOCIATION

MOVEMENT IN SYDNEY

Application was made recently to the Industrial Registrar (Mr. Ebsworth) by the New South Wales Professional Boxers, Managers, and Trainers' Association for registration as an industrial union. George Storey, secretary, said that the association desired, that the benefit ] of the Industrial Arbitration Act should j apply to members, and that they should secure fair rates of pay and con-! ditions. The Registrar asked if members of the association were employees. Were they subject, to control by promoters or trainers? • - Mr. Storey replied that if boxers did not do what promoters said they could be starved out.. The association collaborated with the police in efforts to secure better conduct of contests. Fighters were now thoroughly examined medically. Before the existence of the | association, there was a glut of boxers and stadiums. Sometimes, the attendance had not been sufficient to' pay the sums agreed upon. The boxer had I no protection. Judgment was reserved.

In a recent wrestling match at Gisborne the weights, announced were: Mehringfjr, Jsst, 71b; Wade, 15st 121b. I The small difference in weights.was unexpected, comments an exchange, as though Wade lacked the other's inches. | he was obviously burly, and not yet, worked into the prime of condition, whereas Mehringer was fairly finedrawn.