BOXING.,

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2120, 11 April 1914, Page 6

BOXING.,

Tho twelfth annual report of tho New Zealand Boxing Council lias been issued. The report s&ys that duriDg tno year the amateur side of tho sport had boon well catered for. Tho professionals, too, had ken, well oaterecf for, but »t was to bo regretted that several matches that were promoted turned out unsatisfactory. Associations aro urged to exereiso'the litmost card in selecting con' , tenants'for professional matches; none but wolkuwreditcd men should bo given any encouragement. Financially, the i council is reported to be hettltlt?. Hub vear there was .no call to finance _ a ; team to Australia, but the necessity would arise in the next -throe successive i seasons. Tho season commenced with a credit of £31 16s. 6d., and closed with; : a credit of £103 3s. 10d. , . Tho report .'concludes as foiiows; —i "la the , early part of the season the council learned with _ astonishment that; tho Northern' Association had entered | into uu agreement with a private jndi-; vidnal to secure for him permits to carry, out six" contests on the understanding that any loss over the contests would be.borne b,v him, while any profit-would be shared between him and I •tke association. The council immediate- J ly communicated .-with the Northern As-j soointion ,on the matter, jpointing ont I that its action amounted to a breach of j faith inasmuch as it was distinctly understood, when the sport was givenjcg-al recognition in"1905, that competitions shonM bo. carried <mt only by registered bodies which were expressly for tho pwpose of making it impossiblethat tho individual promoter should be identified in any way witlt the promotion of competitions. The Northern Association. Was requested to cancel tho agreement. At tho same time, in view of tho possibility of the tisb demanding the attention «f the Minister of Justice and the Commissioner of Police, Mr. K. W. M'Villy, _ president of the 'Wellington Association, was requested to represent the fsouncil should occasion arise, Quito recently.'Mr- M'Villy reported that the Northern Association had applied for and obtained two permits at Easter on behalf of a syndicate. It now appears that ih» individual referred to previously liad disposed of his interests to a, syndicate. Thereupon tho ceimcil' secretary was authorised ■ to place tlis farts of the case before the Hon. A. L. Herdotan, Minister of Justice, and Str. J. Culleu, Comroiss-kmer of Police, and to ask their assistance in Imvino; the permits caneeUed, while Mr. M'Villy was requested to take whatever steps he deemed necessary to secure that esd. The omutcil lias pleasure in announcing that:its efforts to fcireguard the interests of the sport have been successful. It is also a matter for pleastire to report that at the Tiraanf confer* eiito tho representatives of local nsse» ciations, by resolution, espressed their disapproval of tie attempt to give enMutapement to the private speculator. At a later period local associations, by mail vote, authorised the council to amend the rules so as to provide, that no permit to hold a competition siiould be issued ftxeept tlio applying Iwdv itself carried out the Wliilo this h a prot«it!v© measure to an -exi-eat, t3ie council js ef opinion that the proper course is to amend the Act ia'the direction mentioned." CAKPBNRER CONTRACT OFF. fir SM«eraj&—Kress tendon, April 8. Carpentier, the- boxorj promised to meet "Snow-y" Baker in London to-night to sign the contract for three fights in Australia, Ho did nofs arrive, iwtrever. Unless ho comes to-morrow jSaker will drop tho TSfhole scheme. '. ■ Later. Baiter has definitely cancelled tho ar" with Carpentier. AMATEtm CHALLENGES: CAEPENTIBB. Paris, April D. An English amateur has challenged Oarpentier, offering him £209 to enter the Hug. Carpentier accepted without knotting his adversary's name. .. The match' will be private. JEAJvETtE DEFEATS ANDREW JOHNSON. Untfon, April 8. "Joe" Jeannette defeated Andrew Johnson in a four rounds' bout at Liverpool. _____ ii _ - __ ilm ..