Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to clean up New York boxing, the former racket busting District Attorney from Brooklyn contends that any boxer who is connected with a crooked manager is probably crooked himself...
Helfand, who heads the only state commission which does not belong to the N.B.A., demands that all commissions suspend every boxer contracted to a manager who has been suspended...
...suspend a boxer unless he is named. I would leave office first...
Although Lamar admits that a boxer could, as Helfand objects, secretly split his profits from a fight with a suspended manager, he feels that a boxer cannot be penalized for what could happen. "Individual commissions cannot be expected to find out the name of every boxer under the control of a certain manager, nor can they be expected to spy on every boxer who is contracted to a suspended manager," he adds...
...nice if intercollegiate boxing could come back to Harvard. Fewer people get hurt in boxing than in almost any other sport. It was only illegalized when colleges began to import subsidized amateur champions, who would batter the average college boxer to pieces," Lamar stated. "In the ordinary padded glove fight no one gets hurt...