Carol Polis

And he said to me, are you nervous?

I said, yes, very much so.

Well, I had been studying for a year and a half a little rules and regulations book that they had sent me.

It was very tiny but extremely thick.

Seems annoying.

Very.

So every time I would go to the fights with my husband...

I guess you could say the oral part of the exam was that the commissioner would ask me on the spot questions.

And the written part was he always compared my scores with those of the male judges.

And he always told me he liked mine better than the male.

Well, I would turn it in so he could compare it, and then he would ask me on-the-spot questions.

And this went on for a year and a half.

And one night he came over to me before the wind-up or the main event, and he said, Lady, because he never called me by name, I've got good and bad news for you.

I said, Well, give me the bad news first.

And he said, You and Bob have to drive up to Harrisburg, which was...

Where I was living in Pennsylvania in a suburb of Philadelphia was only a two-hour ride.

So I said, well, that's not so bad.

What's the good news?

He said, well, you're going to be appointed as the first woman professional boxing judge in the country.

Jimmy Young.