BRITISH BOXING BOOMS

Chronicle (Levin), 29 March 1946, Page 7

BRITISH BOXING BOOMS

-v* Boxing is booming in Britain, by latest reports. Jack Boloinons, promoter, seeins to be setting out to make Empross llall, at Farl's Court, into a sec- j ond Aladison Bquare Garden — aiul he I appears to be going the right wav about ' it. AH-year-round boxing at - tliree-week-Jy iutervais is visualised, and among other innovations is a liuge four-sidedi clock which will sliow the secouds tick- 1 ing away througli the Jighls. To enabie I Ihe 11,0(10 i'ans to sec all that is going! on, ihe ring will be placed 011 an espec- 1 ialiy liigh pia t form, with the reuorters niong the ringside, isolated from the public by a rail. There will be snackl:ars and" a brand new ticket system which wi-U simplify Ihe problem of iindmg one's seat in such a large enclosure. Bo great is (I10 public appetite for boxing that everv Solomons sliow cirn- i ing tlie winter vvas sold out before the j uames oi' the boxers wero known, and | for at least one tixture the ringside seats were len guiiioas a tiiue. On one day in Januarv tlie promoter reeeived 260 11 Hines and addresses of people who wanted ringside seats for ihe MillsWoodcock tighl , tentalivelv iixed for next May, thougli nobody knows w hether Ihe fight xv i 1 1 be in D'ublin or London, or whether* tlie ringside seats will be 2(1 guineas or 50 guineas!