WILD BOXING SCENES
TWO MANAGERS SUSPENDED Two of America’s most prominent boxing managers, Eddie Mead and Al Weill, who look after the interests of Henry Armstrong and Lou Ambers, have been suspended for one year and four months respectively, by the New York State Athletic Commission. Joe Jacobs, former manager of Max Schmeling, has also been refused an application for a manager’s license, and had his second’s license revoked, for an allegation made against Joe Lom# earlier this summer. Mead and Weill are suspended tor “ conduct detrimental to boxing.” Tin* commission’s action is a direct result of the wild scenes and disputes that took place during the recent Arm-strong-Amhers title fight at the Yanlfceai Stadium, New York, when Armstrong lost his world light-weight champion, ship. The suspensions, however, will ba lifted for one month, in order to allow Armstrong, and Ambers to meet again in November in a welter-weight titla contest. Jacobs suffered the displeasure of tb« commission for his allegation, made be. fore the Tony Galento-Joe Louis fight last June, that the champion’s glovea should be examined more carefully.
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Evening Star, Issue 23408, 27 October 1939, Page 4
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