Those Boxin Rules English, Ame an Judging To the Edilor of the "Mobrh-Cwma Nowy News"
Sye,—Relerring to Amaveue's letter on boxing rules, the following explanations to the two points he ha brought up and which think ur minor problems compared to other that boxing in Shanghai h; tend with.
(1) Same is covered by. Rule No. 5 which state:
The Referee has complete jurisdic tion over the bout while the men aic "the ring, He shall all questions arising not covered by the rules and his decision shall be final and without appeal. is the Judge of fouls, From the above your correspondent will note that referee has the responsibility of differentiating between an "intentional" and "unintentional" foul. As one of the referees has recently been licensed in England and the other has been fulfilling his duties satisfactorily for the last two years, they are fully qualified to decide the above to the satisfaction of all concerned.
(2) If AMATEUR will read the rules carefully, he will note in Section 4 ai Rule No. 5 that.the Referee has a right to award "time out" if an intentional foul harms a fighter to a slight degree, His suggestion of supplying another boxer to spar with the offender is impractical as besides other reasons eight reserves would have to be in attendance and it would not then be a match between two boxers. What would be the decision if, the substitute who was fresh, "knocked out the offend Judges will award points: against ihe offender and the referee would naturally give enough time to the fighter fouled to recover fully from the slight foul.
When Ben Foord fought Walter Neusel in Hamburg recently, the former complained to newspaper reporters after the fight that after he fouled Neusel, he was not given a chance to sit while his opponent was resting, If the Shanghai referee would do the same, although there is no rule covering it, ij would more than even matters the for both offender and the inju The difficulty in Shanghai lies not in the above, but in the method of judging. An American. judge would award greater points for aggressiveness and knockdowns whereas Britisher would take ring generalship and skilful defensive work more into consideration; No les a boxing authority than Nat l'lei-her stated in a recent issue of the "Ring" magazine that if the Braddock-Farr fight took place in England, the decision would have gone to the Welshman and not through bad judging either, but only by a different system of scoring "rhe new set of Rules, which will also be published in the boxing programmes tonight, have been compiled from both the American and British regulations, and Commander Hopper, of H.M.S. Cumberland, who has been keenly interested in British Navy Boxing as well as Lieut-Col C. B. Cates, who is in charge of the Boxin of the-Fourth Marines, and the Athletic Officers of the various regiments, have already given their ap proval to sam There is mo "perfect" set of Rules in Boxing, and all we can do is to ask the boxing public, to go through our new regulations carefully and take every point into consideration so that it will have a more comprehensive idea of how decisions at the Canidrome Gardens are arrived at. r, D. Soroutis,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.