Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1913 — State to Select Referees. [ARTICLE]

State to Select Referees.

The state athletic commission may take upon itself the assignment of referees for all boxing bouts in New York. The plan has already come up at meetings ot the commission and received favorable Action. It is proposed to reduce the official list of referees, of whom there are now more than sixty holding licenses, to fully ene-half the number, and to have the latter not only assigned to duty by the commission, but wholly responsible to it rather than to dub owners, as is the case.