CANASTOTA, N.Y. : The International Boxing Hall of Fame has elected 12 new members, who will be inducted in June 2000. The voting is done by elected by members of the Boxing Writer's Association and boxing historians from 10 countries. The records listed below were provided by the Hall, actual tallies for the CBZ records may differ.

MODERN
Ken Buchanan, lightweight, 62-8, 28 KOs.
Jimmy Carter, lightweight, 81-30-9, 31 KOs.
Jeff Chandler, bantamweight, 33-2-2, 18 KOs.
Carl ``Bobo'' Olson, middleweight, 98-16-2, 48 KOs.

OLD-TIMERS
Jimmy Barry, bantamweight, 58-0-11, 40 KOs.
Battling Levinsky, light heavyweight, 192-52-34, 34 KOs.
Billy Petrolle, lightweight, 112-27-14, 62 KOs.
Ad Wolgast, lightweight, 80-33-20, 40 KOs.

PIONEER
Arthur Chambers, lightweight, 11-1-2, 9 KOs.

NON-PARTICIPANTS
Jeff Dickson, promoter.
Tito Lectoure, promoter.
"Dumb" Dan Morgan, manager and "publicist" who concocted the old cannard about Battling Levinsky fighting 3 times in one day. It is not true!

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