The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Page 19

pitmimg feititttj rftate SPORTS THEATRES WINNIPEG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930 Present Day American Boxing Gang Ridden Racket Gunmen Gain Fortunes As Fans Are Gyped in Fixed Ring Contests New York Writer Bares Widespread "Outside" Control of Boxing By MILTON MACKAYE This It the first of a series of articles revealing gangdom's grip on professional boxing in United States, and disclosing the part played by crooked politicians, gunmen, bootleggers ahd vicious forces generally in the control of pugilism and the men in the ring. NEW YORK. Oct. 11 Gangdom dominates boxing. The racketeers, tha beer runners, the alcohol cookers, the thugs and grafters and gorillas have marched in on the citadel of port and raised the black flag.