BOXER'S LICENCE REVOKED.
lieceived Sunday, 7 p.m. NEVV YOKK, Peb. 7. Tlie Kew York State Athletio Coiuniissiou revoked the niiddloweighl boxer, Kocky Graziano 's, licencc today for failure Lo report two offers of 1 1)0,000 dollars' bribe to lose liis bout agaiust Cowboy Ruben Shank on I)ecember 27. Graziano later withdrevv from the contest explaining he hau a sore back. Graziano was bound by tlie Conuuis siou's rules to report any bribe offers and liis licencc was revoked after a t hree-day lieariug by the Commission which also. ordercd tlie canccllatiou o! Graziano 's world tillo bout with eham pion Touy Zale 011 March 21. The Gom mission chainnan, Edvvard Eagan, read the decision which was: 4 'Tiie Goumiis sion linds from cvidence aud from youi own admission that on tliree sexiaratt occasioms, with suggeslions or requests to engage in sham or collusive contests you never reported those requests 01 suirnestious to this Commission."
The third oceasion referred to an offer of 100,000 dollars to tlirow a iighl in May 1945, with A1 Davis, who was murdered in Brooklyn on November 21. 1945. • ' . The Commission rcfused Graziano C attome.y's request for a sixty or ninetv days ' stay of proceedings whereupon Attorney Jacob Rossenblum annouucCil he would applv under civil laws for a court orrie.i; 011 Pebruery .10, to stay the revoeation of the licence.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1947, Page 3
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