BOXING CONTROL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 235, 17 September 1934, Page 8

BOXING CONTROL

ANNUAL MEETING REMITS Ban on Coloured Boxers CONFERENCE IN HASTINGS Several important matters will come before the delegates to the annual conference ot the New Zealand Association, which takes place at Hastings on Thursday, the second day of the threeday national boxing championships tournament, which opens in the -Municipal Theatre on Wednesday. The order paper will contain remits from the Marlborough, Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay, Otago, Gisborne, Wellington, Southland, Auckland and Christchurch associations, aud will have reference to both the amateur and professional sides of the sport, as well as to the council’s constitution. A policy question which will be raised will concern the granting of professional licenses to visiting coloured boxers, the Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne aud Southland associations having given notice to move that the ban which has been in operation for some years should be removed. This matter is entirely one for the council, as there is no legal bar to prevent boxers of any colour or nationality from competing in New Zeaiaud. There is a body ol opinion in favour of boxers such as Philipinos, who are generally attractive performers in the ring, being given permission to box in New Zealand. A remit from Marlborough reads as fellows: “That rule 19, page 11, new clause (e) be deleted.’’ Attached to the remit is the following uote: “Under this rule a severe penalty is imposed on associations holding more than one tournament, with a professional contest, in a calendar month.’’ Under the clause mentioned, for each tournament after the first the license feo and the percentage of the house receipts are doubled, and the peucentage ot the purse levy is increased by half. APPORTIONING OF FUNDS. Marlborough will also move: That rule 23 (2), sub-clause (e) be altered to read, “25 per cent, shall be used to enable New Zealand amateur boxers to compete in international contests, cither within or without New Zealand, and 25 per cent, shall be used for the importing of suitable professional boxers in a class which may be sufficiently strong to warrant such importation.” The effect of the proposal is that half the money from the championship account which is at present paid into the overseas account for international amateur contests shall be used for assisting in the importation of professionals. Another Marlborough remit reads: That the Government be approached to lift the amusement tax off boxing contests. This is a “hardly annual” which requires no further elaboration. The Wairarapa Association will put forward the following remit: That nominations of boxers for the New Zealand championships be not accepted from associations other than that by which the boxer is registered. This is to prevent a boxer who fails to qualify for the team representing his home association securing a nomination from another association. SAFEGUARDS DESIRED. Though private promotion is not the practice in New Zealand, it is fairly generally known that there has recently been a move to introduce it, and therein lies the reason for the following Gisborne remit: That the council be asked to frame conditions and regulations to safeguard any association which may, subject to the provisions of the Police Offences Act and the rules of the association, arrange with private persons, syndicates, or companies for the promotion of boxing contests.” Gisborne will also move: That the New Zealand Boxing Council enter into negotiations with the New Zealand Broadcasting Board for the broadcasting of all matches throughout the Dominion, and that any revenue from this source be dissipated among the various associations, pro rata according to the number of tournaments broadcast. The Wellington Association will bring forward a remit dealing with the method of the presentation of accounts at the annual meeting. Wellington will also move the following addition to rule 35 in regard to the forfeiture of professional titles; (h) If, on the request of the council,, he is unable to satisfy the council or its nominee that he Is able to make the weight for another contest for his title; (i) where a period of six months has elapsed since the last contest for his title. INTERPBOVINCIAL TEAMS. The following is an Auckland remit: That where an association desires the appearance at its tournament of a team of amateur boxers from another district, negotiations and arrangements for the appearance of such a team shall be conducted through the association in whose district such team shall reside, and the team shall not be advertised as representing its province without the consent of the association concerned. The purpose of the remit is to prevent a club team from visiting another centre and being billed as interprovincial repesentatives. A desire to know more about the professional boxers availat'le for matches in the Dominion has given rise to the following Christchurch remit: That arrangements be made for the New Zealand Boxing Council to forward to associations a monthly bulletin giving particulars of all future contests arranged and held under its jurisdiction, together with the names and weights of professional contestants. . . • Also, all associations make every endeavour to co-operate with the council in obtaining this information and arrange with the boxing professionals m their respective districts to lodge with the council from time to time their applications for anv engagement, such application to include the boxer’s record, weight, expenses and purse required, as well as the date of availability, this information to be also embodied in the above bulletin. VENUE FOR NEXT YEAR. The national championship meeting is to be held next year in the South Island, and so far applications have been received from Otago, Greymouth, Timaru, and Christchurch associations. Further applications will be accepted at the annual meeting, and H it ttder-

stood that the Otago Association will be one which will advance its claims. The Hawke’s Bay and Otago associa tions intend moving that the council should arrange for the importation ol professional boxers to New Zt-alanq |:>ii control their movements. The only way in which this proposal could In put into effect would be to increase the powers of the council which, at present, is only an administrative, and not a promoting, body.