I'm going to have to look into the tax laws.” Arthur Mereante his been giving clinics for officials. We want to check on through with referees and judges, see how much preparation they do. Boxing is ‘hot right now in Utica, it's getting started again in Albany, Syracuse is stirring. “We might have deputies again but pay them by the day when they actually work. The other members are Floyd Patterson and Luis Rios. He said the Governor had appointed him acting chairman to survey and probably reorganize the commission, which hasn't had a chairman since the resignation of Jim Farley Jr. He went into business for a time but lately has been in Albany in Parks and Recreatipn. Francis College, was coach at both institutions and ran Hugh Carey's Congressional orrice wnen the Governor was in Washington. Growing up in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, he played roundball at St. Jack Prenderville said he had been a fight fan back in the days when New York had all the big ones, but he really knew more about basketball. Somehow, after this digression, the luncheon talk got back to boxing. Overjoyed, he raced back to the first bookie's stand, lifted the little guy by the armpits, carried him into the clubhouse and set him up on the bar. In the course of his crusade he went for many thousands more than he had meant to invest, and when Hyperbole sailed in by three he found himself winner of a tidy little fortune. if the bookmaker said “Hyperbowi!” or “Ain't no such horse in this race,” White Hat bet him till he rubbed the price down. Indignantly he strode through the ring asking what price Hyperbole. White Hat admired the horse and wanted him pronounced right. “What right has he to have money?” So they did, and the guy dropped the odds on his slate to 3 to 1. The feature was coming up, so they headed directly for the betting ring, where the first book they encountered was a little round guy, bald as an apple. White Hat and his partner made several stops en route to the track, arriving at last in a state of incandescence. Unavoidably, the name recalled the adventures of a gentleman, scholar and horse player named White Hat McCarthy, who set off for old Bel mont one day to back a steed named Hyperbole in the feature race. Sports of The Times Iperbole on East 55th Street, a restaurant whose name sent the conversation off on a wild tangent. Whether he also has the clout to restore New York to its former eminence as the fountainhead of the Sweet Science remains to be seen, but he promised yesterday that he would give it his best shot.

He stands 6 feet 5 and has the heft to pluck up Leon Spinks with one hand and Muhammad All with the other and knock their heads together. Pound for pound, Jack Prenderville, the new chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, is the biggest.

Hyperbole pronunced hyperbowl