TO LEGALISE FIGHTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 9 February 1925, Page 7

TO LEGALISE FIGHTS.

BILL BEING PREPARED. LONDON, Jan. 27. Mr J. H. Douglas, chairman of the B-itish Boxing Board of Control, announces that Commander Kenworthy, M .P., has definitely undertaken to intioduce a bill to legalise boxing contests, and believes that there is a real cl ance of the bill passing. THE "NOBLE ART." AND ITS IGNOBLE RATING. LONDON,* Jan. 28. ■ • Commander Ken worthy's proposed bill to legalise boxing should bo as-

Birred of strong support, say 4 the Daily Mail. It is absurd that the stigma of disrepute still attaches to the pastime, which at present makes boxing punishable as common assault in the same way as a disorderly street light. It is no wonder that we are not producing champions. Boxing is the world's finest discipline for the body and the temper. There ought to be more of it. ORIENT CHAMPIONSHIP. MANILA, Feb, 1. Johnny Hill knocked out Ansel Bell in the second round in ti contest for the featherweight championship of the Orient. —A. and N.Z. cable. THE BAN ON DUNDEE. Received February 9. 8.5 a.m. NEW YORK. Feb. 8. Johnny Dundee, former world's featherweight champion, has been indefinitely suspended by the New York Athletic Commission for failing to honour a contract to box Fred Bretonnel. of Paris, last month. The action was taken at the request of the French Boxing Federation und completes the international ban on Dundee. —A. and N.Z. cable.