The Dickinson press., 1883-07-21
BILL NYE ON BOXING.

BILL NYE ON BOXING.
As illustrated by Personal Experience
in the Manly Art.
/ haye just returned from little two.
handed tournament with the gloves. I
have filled my nose with cotton waste 80
that 1 shall not soak this sketch in gore
as write.
1 needed a little healthful exercise.
and was looking for something that
would be full of vigorous enthusiasm,
and at the same time promote the health>
full flow of blood to the muscles. This
was rather difficult. Itried most eyerv.
thing, but failed. Bein sociable be.
ing Goke) I wanted other people to help
me exercise, or 60 along with me when
exercised. Some men can go away to
a desert isle and have fun with dumb.
bells and horizontal bar, but to me it
would seem dull and commonplace after
a while, and I would yearn for more
humanity.
Two of us finally concluded to plav
billiards. but we were only amateurs
and the owner intimated that he wonl3
want the table for the Fourth of july, 90
we broke off in the middle of the first
game and paid for it.
Then younger brother said he had
set OF boxing-gloves in his room, and al
though l was the taller and had longer
arms, he would hold up as lons as he
could and l might hammer him until I
gained strength and finally got well.
l accepted this offer because I had
often regretted that had not made nv
self familiar with this art, and also be-
cause knew it would create a thrill of
interest and ire me with ambition, and
that's what hollow-eyed invalid needs
te put him on the road to recovery.
The boxing-glove is large fat mitten
with an abnormal thumb, and string
at the wrist by which you tie it on. SO
that when you feed it to your adversary
he can not swallow it and choke him
self. l had never seen any boxing.
gloves before, but my brother said they
were soft and wouldn't hurt anybody,
SO we took OFT some of our raiment and
put them on. Then we shook hands.
Tnat was to show that we were friendly
and would not slay each other.
My brother is a great deal Younger
than am, and 80 warned him not to
get excited and come for me with any-
thing that looked like wild angoyern-
able fury, because might. in the heat
Of debate, pile his jaw up on his fore
head and ill his ear full of sore thumb.
He said that was all right, and he would
try to be cool and collected.
Then we put our right toes close to-
gether, and told him to be on his
guard. At that moment | dealt him a
terrific blow, aimed at his nose, but.
through clerical error of mine, it went
over his shoulder, and spent itself in
the wall of the room, shattering a small
hollywood bracket. for which I paid
him three dollars and seventy-five cents
afterward. Ibid not wish to buy the
bracket, because had two at hone,
bought it.
ture, and IN two seconds the air was full
Of poulticed thumb md buckskin nit
ten. soon detected chance to put
one in where my brother could smell of
it, but I never knew Just where It
struck, for at that moment l ran IN
against something with the pit of nv
stomach that made me throw up the
sponge along with some other things.
MY brother then proposed that we
take off the gloves, but thought had
not sufficiently punished him, and that
another round would complete the con-
quest, which was then almost within my
grasp. took bismuth powder, and
squared myself; but In warding off left
handler forgot about my adversary's
right, and ran my nose into the middle
of his boxing glove. Fearing that had
injured him, retreated rapill ly ON my
elbows and shoulder-blades to the cor
ner of the noom, thus giving him ample
time to recover. By this means my
younger brothers features were saved,
and are to-day as symmetrical as my
own.
| can still cough up pieces of boxing
gloves, and when close my eyes can
see calcium lights and blue phosphores-
cent CLEANS across the horizon; but 1 am
thoroughly convinced that there is no
physical exercise which yields the same
amount of health and elastic viyor to
the puncher that the manly art does.
To the punchee, also, it affords large
wad of glad surprise and nose bleed,
which can not be hurtful to those who
banker for the pleasing nervous shock,
the spinal jar, and the pyrotchnic con-
cussiOn.
This is why shall continue the exer-
cises after have practiced with mule
or cow-catcher two or three weeks,
and feel little more confidence in N.Y.
self.-Detroit Free Press.
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