CV 1116 
 .U5 N55 
 1916 
 Copy 1 
 
LAWS AND RULES 
 
 CV 1116 
 .U5 N55 
 1916 
 
 Copy 1 FOR THE 
 
 GOVERNMENT OF 
 BOXING 
 
 IN THE 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK * * f ^ 
 
 ADOPTED BY THE NEW YORK STATE 
 
 ATHLETIC COMMISSION 
 
 JANUARY, 1916 
 
 I 
 
 ALBANY 
 
 J. B. LYON COMPANY. PRINTERS 
 
 1916 
 
NEW YORK STATE ATHLETIC 
 COMMISSION 
 
 ALBANY OFFICE 
 
 Room 6, Delaware & Hudson Building, 
 North Pearl Street and Maiden Lane 
 
 NEW YORK CITY 
 
 41 Park Row. Tel. 3405 Cortlandt 
 
 COMMISSIONERS 
 
 FRED A. WENCK, Chairman. New York City 
 FRANK DWYER, Geneva 
 
 JOHN FRANEY, Albany 
 
 WILLIAM F. MATHEWSON, Secretary 
 New York City 
 
 D, Of D. 
 JUL 18 1916 
 
GVi\t 
 
 LAWS OF NEW YORK.— By Authority. 
 
 Chap. 779. 
 
 An act establishing a state athletic commis- 
 sion and regulating boxing and sparring in 
 the state of New York. 
 
 Became a law July 25, 191 1, with the approval 
 of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being 
 present. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, 
 represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact 
 as follows: 
 
 Section i. There shall hereafter be a state 
 athletic commission. Within thirty days after 
 this act takes effect the governor shall appoint 
 three persons, at least two of whom shall re- 
 side within the territory embraced within the 
 first and second judicial districts, to be mem- 
 bers of such commission, who shall hold office 
 for the term of five years from the first day 
 of January following the date of their appoint- 
 ment. The governor shall also appoint their 
 successors, possessing like qualifications, on 
 the first day of January of each successive 
 fifth year, beginning with the year nineteen 
 hundred and eleven. The commission shall 
 maintain general offices for the transaction 
 of its business. The members of the com- 
 
mission shall, at their first meeting after their 
 appointment, elect one of their number chair- 
 man of the commission, shall adopt a seal for 
 the commission and may make such rules for 
 the administration of their office, not incon- 
 sistent herewith, as they may deem expedient; 
 and they may hereafter amend or abrogate 
 such rules. Two of the members of the com- 
 mission shall constitute a quorum to do busi- 
 ness; and the concurrence of at least two 
 commissioners shall be necessary to render 
 a choice or decision by the commission. 
 
 § 2. The commission shall appoint, and 
 at pleasure remove, a secretary to the com- 
 mission, whose- duty it shall be to keep a 
 full and true record of all its proceedings, 
 preserve at its general office all its books, 
 documents and papers, prepare for service 
 such notices and other papers as may be re- 
 quired of him by the commission and to per- 
 form such other duties as the commission 
 may prescribe; and he may, under direction 
 of the commission, issue subpoenas for the 
 attendance of witnesses before the commis- 
 sion with the same effect as if they were 
 issued in an action in the supreme court and 
 may, under direction of the commission, ad- 
 minister oaths in all matters pertaining to the 
 duties of his office or connected with the ad- 
 ministration of the affairs of the commission. 
 Disobedience of such a subpoena and false 
 swearing before such secretary shall be at- 
 tended by the same consequences and be sub- 
 ject to the same penalties as if such dis- 
 
obedience or false swearing occurred in an 
 action in the supreme court. The necessary 
 traveling and other necessary expenses of the 
 members of the commission, which, including 
 the salary of the secretary, shall not exceed 
 the sum of iive thousand dollars per year, 
 shall be paid monthly by the state treasurer 
 on the warrant of the state comptroller out 
 of the proceeds of the tax to be collected as 
 herein provided. The commission shall an- 
 nually make to the legislature a full report of 
 its proceedings for the year ending with the 
 first day of the preceding December and may 
 submit, with such report, such recommenda- 
 tions pertaining to its affairs as to it shall 
 seem desirable. 
 
 § 3. The commission shall have, and hereby 
 is vested with, the sole direction, management, 
 and control of and jurisdiction over all box- 
 ing and sparring matches and exhibitions to 
 be conducted, held or given within the state 
 by any club, corporation or association; and 
 no boxing or sparring match or exhibition 
 shall be conducted, held or given within the 
 state except pursuant to its authority and in 
 accordance with the provisions of this act. 
 The commission may, in its discretion issue, 
 and at its pleasure revoke, a license to con- 
 duct, hold, or give boxing and sparring 
 matches and exhibitions to any club, cor- 
 poration or association which shall at the 
 time application therefor be made own or 
 hold a lease for at least one year upon the 
 building wherein it may be proposed to con- 
 
duct, hold or give such boxing or sparring 
 match or exhibition and which, if it be an 
 amateur athletic association, may be incor- 
 porated or organized in accordance with the 
 rules of the Amateur Athletic Union of the 
 United States. Every license shall be sub- 
 ject to such rules and regulations, and amend- 
 ments thereof, as the commission may pre- 
 scribe. Every application for a license, as 
 herein provided for shall be in writing and 
 shall be addressed to the commission and 
 shall be verified by some officer of the club, 
 corporation or association on whose behalf 
 the application may be made. It shall con- 
 tain a recital of such facts as, under the pro- 
 visions hereof, will show the applicant en- 
 titled to receive a license and, in addition 
 thereto, such other facts and recitals as the 
 commission may by rule require to be shown. 
 
 § 4. Where a license granted under this act 
 has been canceled or revoked by an order of 
 the commission, the club, corporation or asso- 
 ciation in whom the license has been held is 
 hereby given the right to review the determina- 
 tion of the commission, as provided in chapter 
 sixteen, title two, article seven of the code 
 of civil procedure. The writ of certiorari al- 
 lowed under this section shall be taken out 
 within thirty days after the order of the com- 
 mission has been served on the club, corpora- 
 tion or association. 
 
 § 5. All buildings or structures used, or in- 
 tended to be used, for the purpose of this act 
 shall be properly ventilated and provided with 
 
fire exits and fire escapes, if there need be, 
 and in all manner conform to the laws, ordin- 
 ances and regulations pertaining to buildings 
 in the city, town or village where situated. 
 Where a part of a building or structure is 
 used for the purposes set forth in this act, 
 this section shall apply in the same manner. 
 
 § 6. No boxing or sparring match or ex- 
 hibition shall be of more than ten rounds in 
 length; and the contestants shall wear, dur- 
 ing such contests, gloves weighing at least 
 eight ounces. 
 
 § 7. Any club, corporation or association 
 which may conduct, hold or give, or participate 
 in, any sham or fake boxing or sparring match 
 or exhibition shall thereby forfeit its license 
 issued in accordance with the provisions of 
 this act, which shall thereupon be, by the com- 
 mission, canceled and declared void; and it 
 shall not thereafter be entitled to receive an- 
 other such or any license pursuant to the 
 provisions of this act. 
 
 § 8. Any contestant who shall participate in 
 any sham or fake boxing or sparring match 
 or exhibition shall be penalized in the follow- 
 ing manner: for the first offense, he shall be 
 restrained for a period of six months, such 
 period to begin immediately after the occur- 
 rence of such offense, from participating in 
 any boxing competition to be held or given 
 by any club, corporation or association duly 
 licensed to give or hold such boxing or spar- 
 ringMnatch or exhibition ; for a second offense 
 he shall be totally disqualified from further 
 
admission or participation in any boxing con- 
 test held or given by any club, corporation or 
 association duly licensed for said purposes. 
 
 § 9. Every club, corporation or association 
 which may hold or exercise any of the privi- 
 leges conferred by this act shall, within twenty- 
 four hours after the determination of every 
 contest, furnish to the commission a written 
 report, duly verified by one of its officers, 
 showing the number of tickets sold for such 
 contest and the amount of the gross proceeds 
 thereof, and such other matters as the com- 
 mission may prescribe, and shall also within 
 the said time pay to the state comptroller a 
 tax of five per centum of its total gross re- 
 ceipts from the sale of tickets of admission 
 to such boxing or sparring match or ex- 
 hibition, which tax, after the payment there- 
 from of the expenses of the commission and 
 the salary of the secretary to the commission, 
 as herein provided, shall be apportioned to 
 the objects and purposes of and in accordance 
 with the provisions of chapter eight hun- 
 dred and twenty of the laws of eighteen hun- 
 dred and ninety-five and the acts amendatory 
 thereof. Before any license shall be granted 
 to any club, corporation or association to 
 conduct, hold or give any boxing or sparring 
 match or exhibition such applicant therefor 
 shall execute and file with the state comp- 
 troller a bond in the sum of ten thousand dol- 
 lars to be approved as to form, and the suffi- 
 ciency of the sureties thereon, by the state 
 comptroller, conditioned for the payment of 
 
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the tax hereby imposed. Upon the filing and 
 approval of such bond the state comptroller 
 shall issue to such applicant for such license 
 a certificate of such filing and approval, v^hich 
 shall be by such applicant filed in the office 
 of the commission with its application for 
 such license; and no such license shall be 
 issued until such certificate shall be so filed. 
 § lo. Whenever any such club, corporation 
 or association shall fail to make a report of 
 any contest at the time prescribed by this act 
 or whenever such report is unsatisfactory to 
 the state comptroller he may examine or cause 
 to be examined the books and records of such 
 club, corporation or association, and subpoena 
 and examine under oath its officers and other 
 persons as witnesses for the purpose of deter- 
 mining the total amount of its gross receipts 
 for any contest and the amount of tax due 
 pursuant to the provisions of this act, which 
 tax he may upon and as the result of such 
 examination fix and determine. In case of the 
 default in the payment of any tax so ascer- 
 tained to be due, together with the expenses 
 incurred in making such examination, for a 
 period of twenty days after notice to such 
 delinquent club, corporation or association of 
 the amount at which the same may be fixed 
 by the state comptroller, such delinquent shall, 
 ipso facto, forfeit its license and shall be 
 thereby disqualified from receiving any new 
 license or any renewal of license ; and it shall, 
 in addition, forfeit to the people of the state 
 of New York the sum of five hundred dollars, 
 
which may be recovered by the attorney- 
 general in the name of the people of the state 
 of New York in the same manner as other 
 penalties are by law recovered. 
 
 § II. Any person who violates any of the 
 provisions of this act, for which a penalty 
 is not herein expressly prescribed, shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 12. The provisions of section seventeen 
 hundred and ten of the penal law shall not 
 apply to any boxing or sparring match or 
 exhibition conducted, held or given by any 
 club, corporation or association duly licensed 
 pursuant to the provisions of this act. 
 
 § 13. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 LAWS OF NEW YORK.— By Authority. 
 Chap. 680. 
 
 An act to amend chapter seven hundred and 
 seventy-nine of the laws of nineteen hun- 
 dred and eleven, entitled "An act establish- 
 ing a state athletic commission and regu- 
 lating boxing and sparring in the state of 
 New York," generally. 
 
 Became a law May 22, 1915, with the approval 
 of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being 
 present. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, 
 represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact 
 as follows: 
 
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Section i. Sections one, two and nine of 
 chapter seven hundred and seventy-nine of 
 the laws of nineteen hundred and eleven, en- 
 titled "An act establishing a state athletic com- 
 mission and regulating boxing and sparring 
 in the state of New York," are hereby 
 amended to read, respectively, as follows : 
 
 § I. The state athletic commission is con- 
 tinued. Within thirty days after this section 
 as amended takes effect the governor shall 
 appoint three persons to be members of such 
 commission, who shall hold office for terms 
 to expire on January first, nineteen hundred 
 and sixteen, January first, nineteen hundred 
 and seventeen, and January first, nineteen 
 hundred and eighteen, respectively. Their suc- 
 cessors shall be appointed for full terms of 
 three years and a vacancy occurring in the 
 office of a member of such commission, other- 
 wise than by expiration of term, shall be 
 filled in like manner as an appointment for a 
 full term, for the unexpired term. Each mem- 
 ber of the commission shall be entitled to 
 receive an annual salary of three thousand 
 dollars and his actual and necessary traveling 
 and other expenses incurred by him in the 
 performance of his official duties. The com- 
 mission shall maintain general offices at Al- 
 bany for the transaction of its business. The 
 members of the commission appointed under 
 this section as amended shall, at their first 
 meeting after their appointment, elect one 
 of their number chairman of the commission, 
 shall adopt a seal for the commission and may 
 
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make such rules for the administration of 
 their office, not inconsistent herewith, as they 
 may deem expedient; and they may hereafter 
 amend or abrogate such rules. Two of the 
 members of the commission shall constitute a 
 quorum to do business ; and the concurrence 
 of at least two commissioners shall be neces- 
 sary to render a choice or decision by the 
 commission. 
 
 § 2. The commission shall appoint, and at 
 pleasure remove, a secretary to the commis- 
 sion, whose duty it shall be to keep a full 
 and true record of all its proceedings, pre- 
 serve at its general office all its books, docu- 
 ments and papers, prepare for service such 
 notices and other papers as may be required 
 of him by the commission and to perform 
 such other duties as the commission may pre- 
 scribe; and he may, under direction of the 
 commission, issue subpoenas for the atten- 
 dance of witnesses before the commission with 
 the same effect as if they were issued in an 
 action in the supreme court and may, under 
 direction of the commission, administer oaths 
 in all matters pertaining to the duties of his 
 office or connected with the administration of 
 the affairs of the commission. Disobedience 
 of such a subpoena and false swearing before 
 such secretary shall be attended by the same 
 consequences and be subject to the same 
 penalties as if such disobedience or false 
 swearing occurred in an. action in the supreme 
 court. The secretary of the commission shall 
 be entitled to receive an annual salary of 
 
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three thousand dollars. The salaries, neces- 
 sary traveling and other necessary expenses 
 of the memhers of the commission, and the 
 salary of the secretary, shall be paid monthly 
 by the state treasurer on the warrant of the 
 state comptroller out of the money appro- 
 priated therefor. The commission shall an- 
 nually make to the legislature a full report 
 of its proceedings for the year ending with 
 the first day of the preceding December and 
 may submit, with such report, such recom- 
 mendations pertaining to its affairs as to it 
 shall seem desirable. 
 
 § 9. Every club, corporation or association 
 which may hold or exercise any of the privi- 
 leges conferred by this act shall, within 
 twenty-four hours after the determination of 
 every contest, furnish to the commission a 
 written report, duly verified by one of its 
 officers, showing the number of tickets sold 
 for such contest and the amount of the gross 
 proceeds thereof, and such other matters as 
 the commission may prescribe, and also within 
 the said time pay to the state comptroller a 
 tax of seven and one-half per centum of its 
 total gross receipts from the sale of tickets 
 of admission to such boxing or sparring 
 match or exhibition, which tax shall be paid 
 into the state treasury, and after the appro- 
 priation therefrom of the salaries and ex- 
 penses of the commission and the salary of 
 the secretary to the commission, as herein 
 provided, shall be appropriated for and be ap- 
 portioned to the objects and purposes of and 
 
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in accordance with the provisions of chapter 
 eight hundred and twenty of the laws of 
 eighteen hundred and ninety-five and the acts 
 amendatory thereof. Before any license shall 
 be granted to any club, corporation or associa- 
 tion to conduct, hold or give any boxing or 
 sparring match or exhibition such applicant 
 therefor shall execute and file with the state 
 comptroller a bond in the sum of ten thous- 
 and dollars to be approved as to form, and the 
 sufficiency of the sureties thereon, by the state 
 comptrpUer, conditioned for the payment of 
 the tax hereby imposed. Upon the filing and 
 approval of such bond the state comptroller 
 shall issue to such applicant for such license 
 a certificate of such filing and approval, which 
 shall be by such applicant filed in the office of 
 the commission with its application for such 
 license; and no such license shall be issued 
 until such certificate shall be so filed. 
 
 2. Upon the appointment of members of 
 the state athletic commission, pursuant to sec- 
 tion one of chapter seven hundred and seventy- 
 nine of the laws of nineteen hundred and 
 eleven, as amended by this act, the terms of 
 office of the members of the state athletic com- 
 mission in office when this act takes effect 
 shall expire. 
 
 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
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RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE 
 GOVERNMENT OF BOXING IN THE 
 STATE OF NEW YORK. 
 PART I. 
 
 " I. The main office of the New York State 
 Athletic Commission shall be located in 
 Room 6 of the D. and H. Building, North 
 Pearl street and Maiden Lane, Albany, N. Y. ; 
 branch office, 41 Park Row, New York City, 
 N. Y. ; and a western office, care of Commis- 
 sioner Frank Dwyer, Geneva, N. Y. 
 
 "2. Applications for licenses to conduct 
 boxing and accompanying documents required 
 by the provisions of Chapter 779, of the Laws 
 of 191 1 shall be written plainly, and all 
 questions appearing on the blank forms of 
 application shall be answered fully. Said ap- 
 plication shall be signed by the president or 
 secretary of the club. Blank forms for these 
 applications with be furnished by the Com- 
 mission. 
 
 " 3. The license certificate issued by the 
 Commission shall be inclosed in a suitable 
 wooden or metal frame, in order that the 
 whole of said certificate may be seen therein, 
 and shall be posted up and at all times dis- 
 played in a conspicuous place in the box office 
 of the club so licensed. Licenses are not 
 transferable. 
 
 "4. All clubs holding licenses shall be held 
 absolutely responsible to the Commission for 
 all matches or exhibitions held on premises 
 of said club. 
 
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" 5. The financial report required by Section 
 9 of Chapter 779 of the Laws of 191 1, shall 
 be made in duplicate. One report shall be 
 transmitted to the Secretary of the Commis- 
 sion, and the other report, with the statutory 
 tax, shall be transmitted to the State Comp- 
 troller. Blank forms of reports shall be 
 provided by the Commission. 
 
 "6. No person shall be admitted to a box- 
 ing or sparring match or exhibition without 
 a ticket, except club employees, and clubs 
 must file with the Commission total number 
 of employees to be used. Employees must be 
 inside before public is admitted. 
 
 "7. All tickets issued to the press shall be 
 marked * PRESS ', and shall not exceed five 
 per cent of the seating capacity. 
 
 " 8. All complimentary tickets shall be 
 marked * COMPLIMENTARY' and shall not 
 exceed two per cent of the seating capacity. 
 
 "9. All tickets for boxers and their assist- 
 ants shall be marked * BOXER*. No boxers 
 retinue shall exceed five, including the boxer 
 and manager. 
 
 " 10. All tickets, exclusive of press, boxer 
 and complimentary tickets, shall have the price 
 and date of show printed plainly thereon, 
 shall be consecutively numbered, and shall 
 have a coupon attached, which may be held 
 by the purchaser thereof. 
 
 " II. All clubs must purchase a separate set 
 of tickets for each show and file with the 
 Commission a duplicate of the order to the 
 
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printer for said tickets. The printer must 
 file with the Commission a duplicate manifest 
 of each delivery. 
 
 " 12. The price of tickets shall be printed 
 in large type and displayed above all ticket 
 sellers* windows, and shall not be varied. 
 
 " 13. Every ticket must be deposited by the 
 ticket taker in a locked box, which box shall 
 only be opened in the presence of an official 
 inspector by an officer of the dub holding the 
 license, and such officer shall count the number 
 of each class of tickets in such box or boxes, 
 and shall also report the number of exchange 
 sales and amount received therefor, and the 
 report required by Section 9 shall be verified 
 by said officer. The official inspector must be 
 allowed in all ticket offices upon request and 
 may count and examine all unsold tickets. 
 
 " 14. The Commission shall appoint official 
 * INSPECTORS ', one or more of whom sfhall 
 be assigned to officiate at every show, to see 
 that the rules of the Commission are strictly 
 observed, and shall immediately mail to the 
 Commission the official box office statement 
 received by him from the officer of the club 
 as required by Rule 13. 
 
 " 15. No intoxicating liquor shall be sold 
 in an arena during a show. 
 
 " 16. No boxing club shall be permitted to 
 sell tickets through boxers, their managers or 
 seconds. 
 
 " 17. No collections, regardless of the pur- 
 pose, shall be taken up from spectators at 
 boxing exhibitions. 
 
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" i8. No boxer shall use a name in current 
 use by another boxer. All boxers competing 
 in this State must file their right names, also 
 their ring names, with the State Athletic Com- 
 mission. 
 
 " 19. Not more than forty (40) rounds of 
 boxing shall be scheduled at any one show, 
 and every show must contain three four round 
 bouts and one six round bout, except shows 
 held under the auspices of the Amateur 
 Athletic Union. No bout may be started after 
 11:15 P. M. 
 
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PART 11. 
 
 " I. The boxing ring shall be constructed 
 in a manner satisfactory to the Commission 
 and shall not be less than sixteen feet nor 
 more than twenty-four feet square. 
 
 "2. The scale of weights shall be: 
 
 Pounds. 
 
 Paperweight 108 
 
 Bantamweight 115 
 
 Featherweight 123 
 
 Lightweight 133 
 
 Welterweight 144 
 
 Middleweight 158 
 
 Commission 175 
 
 Heavy all over 
 
 When boxers agree in their articles to make 
 weight for a contest, the weight agreed upon 
 must be at least six hours before ring time. 
 All contestants must weigh in just before 
 entering the ring, in the presence of the 
 official inspector, regardless of private agree- 
 ment or previous weighing. 
 
 " 3. The chief official of the boxing match 
 or exhibition shall be the licensed referee, 
 who must have a card from the Commission 
 identifying him as such, and no club shall 
 employ or permit anyone to act excepting such 
 officially licensed referees. 
 
 "4. No decision shall be rendered by the 
 referee. A decision may be given in amateur 
 tournaments pursuant to the authority and 
 jurisdiction of the Amateur Athletic Union. 
 
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" 5- Contestants must box in proper athletic 
 costume, including protection cup. 
 
 "6. Contestants may learn the name of the 
 official referee of the club before whom they 
 are to compete by application to the Secretary 
 of the Commission. If said contestants are 
 not satisfied with the official referee they 
 must notify the Secretary of the Comimission 
 in writing forty-eight hours prior to the match 
 or exhibition, and in case of failure to do 
 so they must submit to the jurisdiction of the 
 club referee. 
 
 " 7. All matches or exhibitions in which 
 more than two principals appear in the ring 
 at tbe same time, commonly called a * battle 
 royal ' exhibition, are forbidden, 
 
 "8. All clubs and contestants must enter 
 into written contracts, which contracts shall 
 be executed in triplicate, each party holding 
 one, the third copy to be mailed to the Com- 
 mission immediately upon execution. 
 
 ** 9. In all matches or exhibitions not more 
 than four seconds shall attend or assist a con- 
 testant, and the official referee shall enforce 
 said rule. 
 
 " 10. There shall be no coaching by the 
 seconds or any other person, and the seconds 
 must remain seated during contest, and must 
 not rise from their seats until the bell an- 
 nounces the termination of a round. 
 
 " II. Chief or main match or exhibition 
 shall coimmence not later than 10 P. M. The 
 club must select from the various contestants 
 the chief or main match or exhibition. 
 
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" 12. The kidney punch or blow shall be 
 forbidden in all contests. The referee shall 
 be sole judge of whether any other blow be 
 fair or foul. 
 
 " 13. Only soft cotton or linen bandages 
 shall be used, and all bandages shall be subject 
 to the approval of the referee. Hard band- 
 ages or substances of any kind are prohibited. 
 
 " 14. No person under 18 years of age shall 
 be permitted to participate in any contest or 
 exhibition. 
 
 "15. Each contestant shall be examined 
 prior to entering the ring, by a physician 
 who has been licensed to practice in the 
 State of New York for not less than five 
 years. The physician shall certify in writing, 
 over his signature, as to contestant's physical 
 condition to engage in such contest. And said 
 physician shall be in attendance during con- 
 test, prepared to deal with any emergency 
 which may arise. Said physician shall file 
 said report of examination with the Com- 
 mission within a period of twenty-four hours 
 after the contest. Blank forms of physician's 
 reports may be had at the Commission's office, 
 and all questions must be answered in full. 
 
 *' 16. If a main match or exhibitiion is 
 stopped by the referee, or by a member of 
 the State Athletic Commission, or the Secre- 
 tary of the Commission, for an infraction of 
 the rules of the Commission or for a violation 
 of the provisions of Chapter 779 of the Laws 
 of 191 1, or the amendments thereto, the dub 
 shall 'hold all box office receipts of said 
 
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match or exhibition for a period of forty- 
 eight hours, pending the decision of the 
 Commission. 
 
 " 17. No boxer shall be permitted to contest 
 against an opponent ten pounds heavier than 
 himself in the lightweigiht class or under said 
 class. 
 
 " 18. Contests between negroes and white 
 persons, otherwise known as mixed bouts, 
 are strictly prohibited. 
 
 " 19. Introductions from the ring are limited 
 to three individuals other than the contestants 
 and referee. 
 
 " 20. Where boxers are working on a guar- 
 antee, the State Athletic Commission must be 
 assured beyond a doubt as to the responsibility 
 of the guarantor, otherwise the Commission 
 will demand that the full amount of the guar- 
 antee be posted as directed by the Commission, 
 not later than 2 P. M., on the day preceding 
 the contest. If the contest be on Monday, the 
 guarantee must be posted at 11 A. M., on the 
 Saturday preceding. Either contestant or the 
 club must, immediately notify the Commission, 
 when, by any reason, a show or contest is 
 declared off. Unless the Commission be so 
 notified before 2 P. M., on the day preceding 
 the contest, suspension for at least thirty days 
 will follow for the club or the party at fault. 
 Any boxer causing a cancellation, must FIRST 
 fulfill his obligation to that club, or obtain 
 a release from the club, before he will be 
 permitted to box elsewhere." 
 
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