Proposition Summary

Initiative measure. Authorizes boxing and wrestling contest for prizes or purses, or where admission fee is charged, limiting such boxing contests to twelve rounds; creates athletic commission empowered to license such contests and participants therein; prescribes conditions under which licenses shall be issued and contests held; declares amateur boxing contests, conducted under Section 412 of Penal Code, which prohibits prize fights and limits amateur boxing contests to four rounds, shall be subject to provisions of this measure and under sole jurisdiction of such commission when admission fee is charged.

Proposition Number

7

Year

1924

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Pass

Popular Vote Results

Y: 518631; A: 51.0; N: 498217; B: 49.0

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative

For Author

Harry F. Morrison, Assemblyman Twenty-ninth District

Against Author

Chester H. Rowell

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