Sport: Brothers Banned

Last week, the Italian Boxing Federation banned the proposed bout between Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champion of Italy, and his brother, Giuseppe Spalla. Infuriated at what he termed, in an excited tirade, the mollycoddlishness of the Federation, Giuseppe declared that, if the bout could not be held in public, it would certainly take place in private, under any convenient conditions. Financial as well as athletic differences are said to have estranged Erminio and Giuseppe.