Sport: Harlem's Haymaker

Last week, for the first time in its 23 years, New York State's famed, fulminous Boxing Commission had a Negro member. He was handsome, 49-year-old Dr. Clilan Powell, X-ray expert, editor of Harlem's Amsterdam News, director of Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co. (owned and operated exclusively by Negroes). Governor Dewey, whom Powell backed for the governorship, made the appointment. Other Boxing Commission appointments have been political; so might this one be. More to the point was the special justness of giving the Commission a one-third Negro say: of pro pugs today, 70%...

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