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% are Negroes.

In his new job, Dr. Powell will help rule on prospective matches, contracts, ratings of fighters, and otherwise attempt to maintain law & order in the cauliflower industry. During his three-year term, he will pocket $25 for each commission meeting (they average four a month). If he should be elected to the chairmanship of the triumvirate, he would pay taxes on $7,500 more income per year.

Asked last week to name his favorite fighter, Commissioner Powell picked Sir William Osier.

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