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NBA May Hold Inquiry in ‘Rocky’ Graziano Case President in Blast at N.Y. Commission
NEW YORK, (ff) As Rocky Graziano continued his fight for fistic life before the state athletic commission today, the National Boxing Association indicated it might conduct its own inquiry in the case, because if felt the commission wasn’t interested in a united front to “clean up boxing.” NBA President Abe Greene asserted the New York commission should have invited an NBA representative to sit in on the Graziano case in view of Greene’s statement last week that boxing’s two most powerful governing bodies should join forces against ******** and fixing. “We opened the door to New York, Greene declared, “and the commission didn’t see fit to join us in a common platform.” Greene’s statement came as the commission began the second day of its hearing on Graziano’s failure to report a $lOO,OOO offer to throw a fight with Ruben Shank last night—one of two $lOO,OOO bids he received to fix bouts, neither bid accepted. Greene indicated he might summon Graziano and his mild little manager, Irving Cohen, to tell him the facts. Abe could give those facts to the NBA’s executive committee, and the committee could decide the NBA’s action in its farflung territory. All indications are that if Graziano is given a severe penalty he will appeal to the courts on the grounds the commission’s ruling would deprive him of making a living.
NEW YORK, (ff) As Rocky Graziano continued his fight for fistic life before the state athletic commission today, the National Boxing Association indicated it might conduct its own inquiry in the case, because if felt the commission wasn’t interested in a united front to “clean up boxing.” NBA President Abe Greene asserted the New York commission should have invited an NBA representative to sit in on the Graziano case in view of Greene’s statement last week that boxing’s two most powerful governing bodies should join forces against ******** and fixing. “We opened the door to New York, Greene declared, “and the commission didn’t see fit to join us in a common platform.” Greene’s statement came as the commission began the second day of its hearing on Graziano’s failure to report a $lOO,OOO offer to throw a fight with Ruben Shank last night—one of two $lOO,OOO bids he received to fix bouts, neither bid accepted. Greene indicated he might summon Graziano and his mild little manager, Irving Cohen, to tell him the facts. Abe could give those facts to the NBA’s executive committee, and the committee could decide the NBA’s action in its farflung territory. All indications are that if Graziano is given a severe penalty he will appeal to the courts on the grounds the commission’s ruling would deprive him of making a living.
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