The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-02
The Prize Fight.

For some time past the community has |
been fully informed, by conspicuous and
almost daily advertisements and special
notices, of an impending prize fight be-
tween pair of bullies whose names we |
do not care to even mention. We can
not doubt but that all this has been re-
ceived by considerate men and quiet
citizens with supreme disgust; and the
general feeling has probably been to let
these bullies go and maui each other out
OF all semblance OF humanity, il 1t sol
please them, as about the best punish
ment for their boasted brutality.
But this is not, by any means, all there
| is, in such case, Of interest to the COM
munity. If the evil consequences of such
transactions were limited to the Vaga-
bonds who consent to make brutes and
wild beasts of themselves for hope OF
some paltry gain, society might well
abandon the offenders to their own mu-
tual beastly punishment. But, su ch
acts of revolving brutality, if winked at
by public opinion, have direct tenden-
cy to brutalize hundreds, perhaps thou
sands, of others; and thus demoralize
society to shocking and dangerous de-
gree. In this the community has an in.
terest too large for estimate.
To protect this public interest in the
morals of the people, the law of Ohio
has wisely fixed rigid prohibition
, against prize fighting, and affixed a
stringent penalty for the violation oi
1868 makes this olfense a felony, the prin-
cipals of which are punishable by i'm
? prisonment in the penitentiary from one
year to ten years, at the Courts dis
any "backer, trainer, second, umpire,
assistant, or reporter" are liable to fine
, from fifty to five hundred dollars and
{ Imprisonment in the Jail for from ten
. days to three months.
q Another section of the law commands
the sheriff, or any cons table, or police
, officer, who shall have reason to bollevC
that such prize fight is in preparation
II or that any persons are in training II
engage in such fight as principal, tC
lforthutM arrest such person and takt
him before judge or magistrate, an(
If thereupon to notify the Prosecuting
S Attorney to prosecute the charge before
n such mag trate. And if the charge bt
+ sustained the person accused must be
e held to bail in from $500 to $4,000 will
/ resident sureties, not to engage i'll any
n such fight for one year from the date o
D arrest; and in default of proper sureties
II he is to remain in Jail one month, when
l. he may be discharged on his own reeog
nizance on showing being made thai b
D. is unable to find sureties.
IS We are glad to learn that our public
o officers charged with these duties hav
j. not been negIectful OF their responsible
S ity. To what extent the proceedings
against the principals have been prose
q cuted we are not precisely informed
l. but presume that the injunctions of th
e law have been complied with. The com
e munity will be satisfied with nothin
IS less; and the officers must see to it tina
n there is no laxity in this regard. w
D. want no such disgraceful scenes a
IS those attending the recent mauling c
,e Walker to death, and then leaving hi
N dead body uncared for by the brutes VIII
ze witnessed his killing in the fight nea
Philadelphia three days ago; all {
t.. which was disgrace to the officers {
hbo la VI, ia, tl,at Uipinitv