1939-06-26 — Page 24

BOXING...

Revolutionary Changes Proposed

London, June 6.

IPORTANT proposals affecting receipts from television and IMPOM

changes to the rules of boxing are among the subjects to be discussed at the annual meeting of the British Boxing Board of Control in Cardiff to-morrow.

The most revolutionary proposal is that in future boxing shall be conducted under rules to be known as British Boxing Board of Control rules, Hitherto the rules have been those of the National Sporting Club.

Then they will ask the delegates, to climb back again immediately to sanction à change in the rules afterwards. to allow a boxer who has fallen through the ropes ten seconds in which to regain his feet unaided outside the ring, and be permitted

At the rules stand at present a' the boxer who has fallen out of ring and fails to get back again in ten seconds is adjudged to have

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1939.

been knocked out.. This happened | MOTOR RACING twice in big fights last year, Ben Foord and Jack Doyle each losing by this means..

The stewards will also seek to insert in the rules among the off- ences for which a boxer may be disqualified "persistent ducking be- low the waist line."

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GERMAN SUCCESS

Brussels, To-day.

Hermann Lang, of Germany, driving a Mercedes, won the Bel- At present the Board are

gian Grand Prix over 33 laps total- powered to levy 5 per cent. all tournaments at which the gross ling 310 miles in three hours, 20 takings are £2500 or more. Now mins., 21.1 secs. at an average. they propose that the "takings"

broad-speed of 101.348 m.p.h. shall include "television,

Rudolf Hasse, in an Auto Union,

second and cast, film and still picture photo-

Manfred von graphy," which means if a moter is paid for television and Brauchitsch, in a Mercedes was broadcasting rights, his receipts third. from that

must Richard Seaman, the sole Briton, be included in the "gross takings." | driving a Mercedes, crashed at the The Board's accounts for the year 22nd lap when leading, fractured show an excess of expenditure over his arm and was seriously burned. income of £2748.

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