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CONTROL OF BOXING,
LORD LONSDALE'S VIEWS.
It is expected that there will be na early decision on the part of the Home
Office with regard to the proposal now before the department dealing with the proper and efficient control of boxing in this country, anys a recant London
message.
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In the meanwhile everyone interested in the sport and jealous of the good name of English boxing supports the demand that such scenes as those recently wit nessed at the Albert Hall in connection with a contest organised by a private promoter shall be impossible of recur-
rence.
Mr. Henry Jacobs, the promoter of this contest. Bonted a certificated referee of the British Boxing Board of Control because he did not agree with his dee sion, declaring publicly that he would never employ him again.
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POSTAGE___STAMPS. INTERESTING NOTES ON EASTERN ISSUES.
Mr. Fred. J. Melville, the well-known philatelis authority, contributes the fol Sowing to the London Daily Telegraph, With the postage-dua stamps newly in- troduced in the Federated Stalay States in the details of manufacturing stamps and Hongkong comes a hint of a change
for those Colonies and protected States where the currencies are on the decimal system. These new postage-due stamps, are printed in sheets of 190, undivided into two panes of 50 for the stamps of in the use of Hongrong, but divided the Federated Malay States. The 100-se plate is the obrious one for countries using dollars and cents, and in time we shall no doubt have the ordinary postage stamps of these places printed in a
filarly convenient form. The present stem of printing them in 60, 120, or 40-sheets, suitable enough for Colonies using sterling, must be a frequent source of trouble in the dollar Colonies. Do- who do not gy their stamps through the igions like Canada and Newfoundland Crown Agents have them printed in sheets of 100.
The Board of Control has replied by relic of the use of
The 80, 120, and 20-set plates are a the register refusing to allow any of its certificated watermark, when the paper made for the officials to act for Mr. Jacobs, and it is general use of Colonics supplied by the now disclosed that the board has also sugarranged as to give one completo water- Crown Agents had the watermarks so gested to the Home Office that all boxing mark each stamp. But for over contests should in future receive an twenty-one years the "multiple Cr official licence and have offered to advise and with the present watermarked paper all-over watermark has been in use, the Home Office as to suitability of a there is no need to make the plates for promoter and his arrangements before a
dollar countries exactly the same size licence is issued.
as for the pence Colonies. In the postal accountancy of such Colonies the ad- vantage, of the sheets being in 50's and 100's. has long been desired, and will be a great convenience.
Other matters which experts declare' must be cleared up before boxing can be said to be satisfactory controlled are:
The offer of gigantic purses, often, imaginary and only advertised to at tract the public.
The prohibition of ring-side book making.
Lord Lonsdale, one of the leading sup porters of boxing in this country, is of the opinion that the Boxing Board of Control is a body capable of making its orders respected.
There may be salutary surprise in store for those who promote competitions of a character calculated to lead to dis- order. I am going to get this sort of thing stopped.
RIDICULOUS PURSES.
Colonies and Protectorates using de- by a general change to 100-set plates for eimal currency which would be affected their ordinary postage stamps are the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Sarawak, Kadah, Kelantan, Trengganu, Johore, Hongkong,, British Guiana, and British Honduras, with pos sibly Ceylon and Mauritius, which use not involve changes of design, and in cents of a rapee. Such a change need
some cases the present plates could be adapted.
As regards the types of these new postage-dues; that for, the Federated
I am perfectly certain that the secre.alay. Statea conforms to the simple of all the recent trouble and the damage large numeral style common to the
to and deterioration of boxing is the ex-majority of postage-dues; the values aro orbitant figures that are given to these men for boxing. They are figures alto gether disproportionate to the science and art required or the expenses in prepar- ing for a contest.
The education of a boxer costs a good sum no doubt. I do not suppose a man can do it ander. one or perhaps two thou- sand pounds, and, of course, he is entitled to expect a proper return for such an oatlay and education.. Those who ar- range these contests are entitled to look for an adequate return also. But the re- turna at present are entirely dispropor tionate to the expenses and are opposed to all common sense.
"I know one boxer who made £82,000 by winning one match, and the loser, I understand, received £54,000
Such payments, when compared with the stipend of the Archbishops" of. Can terbury or York, or with the salary of any Prime Minister other Minister who has ever represented Britain in the world, illustrate to what ridiculous extremes payments for a boxing match have now gone. That is the source of all the trou- Ele.
oue cent purple, two cents black, eight cents red, ten cents crange, and twelve cents blue. The Hongkong scales design helps the native to grasp the fact that the letter has not been sufficiently pre- paid; the values and colours are one cent brown, two cats green, four cents red, six cents orange, and ten cents blur.
Some months ago Lard Daryngtou. P.C., sent requests to the Governors, of British Colonies for stamps to be sold in aid of the Church Army Fund for Disabled ex-Service Men." Many in- teresting contributions resulted. The Rajah of Sarawak autographed a booklet issues) of that protectorate. The Bultans of thirty-seven stamps (including early at Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, and Trong ganu all sent collections. In the case of Trengganu the set of fifteen incinded the high values 85, 925, 830, and 8100.
NAVAL CAPTAINS.
to the Press
The Secretary of the Admiralty last Boxing in general is all right. Iso-month issued the following communique lated incidents like the Albert Hall ex- hibition are all wrong and contrary to
The rumour stated to be current to our traditions. Because of recent deplor
the effect that the Admiralty intend at able incidents, it would not be fair for
the end of the your to reduce the num- anyone assume that all boxing is on
her of captains and commanders on the those lines. It has been well managed active list of the Royal Navy is incor. all over the country, and those of us who
rest, as no such proposal has been have the sport at heart genuinely deplore
under the consideration of the Board. sach, happenings.
The power of the Board of Control lies really in what it conveys to the Home Office. It issues its certificates in regard to boxing generally, and it has its lists: of recognised, participants in the sport just as the Jockey Club has its list of ipekeys. But the Board of Control does more than that. I have always appealed to the Board not to make too commonly kdown what power it has and how that power can be used. I think that is the wise course. Certain people may then discover in a surprising way that the Board of Contrel actually has been grant. ed far higher powers than were suspect ed.
If any people are of the opinion that boxing is not under the Home Office they are very much mistaken, and it will be surprising to me if these things are re peated and if scenes like those under dia- cussion and all undertakings under such sort of management, are not ended.
"As for Mr. Harry Jacobs, he deserves the sternest censure of any man of whont I ever heard in connection with boxing He employs a qualified referce. That gentleman gives an opinion. It may be wrong, but he believes it to be right. He gives it as his honest judgment and the man who employs him tries to play up to the public by disclaiming him and saying he will never employ him again.
I was not present, but can imagine no statement more calculated to create disturbance than that attributed to Mr. Jacobs. However, Mr. Jacobs may find that he has not the chance to employ a certified referee again. At any rate, if men like that are going to be allowed to Lengage the Albert Hall and promote boxing competitions and then treat re- ferees in that way, wall, the sooner they are stopped the better.
The Board of Control can draw the attention of the Home Office to the fact that in its belief such and such a project ed competition is not likely to be to the advantage of the public or the boxing world, and it would then be for the Home Office to take whatever steps were thought fit to stop it"
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