New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-11
THE GREAT PRIZE FIGHT.

The recent brutal encounter between
Mace and Allen illustrates one of tn
most disagreeable phases of life in grea
city. Two men, who have disgraced TIL
annals of other cities, and not nnirequentl.
been driven by the police from withou
their limits come down to New Orleans
as the last resort of rowdJ ism, and appea
TO our roughs for patronage and protec
ton. All the sporting fraternity become
enlisted in their behalf, some as Mace msI
and others as Allen men, but all BEN
upon one object-to see the fight and
make what they can out of it.
At On carly hour, therefore, yesterday
informing about thousand people, of vari-
ons grades of responsibility, bat largely
representing the trough element, poured
cat of this city en- special train to wit
ness the brutal and disgusting exhibition
of two men pitted against each other in
the prize ring. The "great match" be-
tween Mace and Allen has been the chief
theme Of excitement among the short
haired, crop-eared plugs Of New Orleans
for several weeks. Accordingly, all of
that class who were able to beg, borrow or
steal the price of a ticket provided them
selves, and were hanging around
the Jackson Railroad depot for
several hours before the time for
starting. Men who were never known
to be up early III the morning for any
good or honest purpose were promptly on
hand to join the caravan about to wend
its way to the scene of the trouncing.
Prodigious sums of money were spoken
OF by way Of banter on the result, and
more was pledged than will probably ever
be paid. Every man in the party had his
choice between the two bruisers, and natu-
rally looked out for some one to victimize
among bis friends or acquaintance. Thus
the spirit of gambling. already pretty &C.
tive in this part of our population, and la
tent in nearly every human being, received
a new impetus. 1t is believed that but
for the high tariff placed upon the excur-
sion tickets, twenty thousand men and
boys would have witnessed the exhibit
ton. And to the mon having the thing
in charge the credit ia due of excluding
and older men of the lowest
character from the train by refusing to
sell tickets to such.
This match between Mace aud Allen |
las decided nothing except the ownership |
If about twenty-five hundred dollars.
The question as to which of the two is the
'best man." that is, best able to give and
receive vigorous blows, could not interest |
my of our people, who have heretofore /
'een supposed to be above such
hings. 1t is certainly of doubtful pro-
'riety for a professedly heightened people
o encourage, promote and patronize such
And it is remarkable that
t this time, when even the lower classes
# New York, Cincinnati and st. Louis
ave voted prize fighting below their
aste, and have used the principals in one
r two mills little roughly, these
NO bruisers should come here. of all the
7orld, and find peculiar favor in the eyes
f thousands Of our people. Can it be
hat we have larger crop of idlers who,
aying no serious business of life to
ccupy their minds, long for such
zcitements as horse-racing, cock-fght-
lg and the prize-rng Whatever
lay be the cause, such enterprises
ppear to meet with an astonish.
lg degree of success here at all times.
hey form the theme of conversation at the D.,
rect corners, in public places. in the j
rect cars and In private offices. They
lgross space in the newspapers, and are
them carried into every family, thus
ore or less corrupting the public morals,
I'd furnishing the children with accounts t
vice CLOSED over with the fashionable t
lom of the prize ring, which they read t
lth avidity. Boys take up the idea and il
rm impromptu prize rings, which some
mes result in serious family difficulties:
cir attention is taken from their books. L
d in short, the whole community is u
rown into ferment, from which they j.
lerge all the worse for the excitement. u
Such occurrences are not improving. d
ley are only possible in communities u
7orable to the development of the lower s.
der of public amusement and we hope o.
1t IN the future our people will do more ii
deserve the high character claimed for Fl,
I'm by the city press. One prize fight,
successful, ss the one just recorded I'M a,
lbtedly was, will be cited to our preu. 4,
% and more than overbalance an infinite II
mber of unsupported claims to peculiar 3
portability. We shall be judged by the IL
rid by what we are, not by what We
,tess to be. in
TEE FREEMAN CASE. ~
The several papers of the city still con- %
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