The Arizona sentinel., 1883-07-21
Bill Nye on Boxing.

l
 not soak this sketch with gore a
 I write. l needed little health
 ful exercise, and I was looking
 for something that would be full
 of vigorous enthusiasm, and a
 the same time promote the
 healthful flow of hood to the
 muscles. This was rather diff
 cult. Being a sociable being l (joke) I wanted other people to
 help me exercise, or go along
 with me when exercised. Some
 men can go away to d desert Isle and have fdn with dumb bells and a horizontal bar, but to me it would seem dull and cOmnon- place after while, and 1 would yearn after more humanity. Two of Us finally concluded to play billiards, but we were only anna teurs, and the owner init mated that he would need the table for Fourth of July, so we broke off in the middle of the first game, and 1 paid for it.. Then younger brother said he had set of boxing gloves in his room, and although 1 Was taller and had longer arms, he would hold up as long as he could, and 1 might hammer him until l gained strength and finally got well. 1 accepted the offer be- cause 1 had often regretted that 1 had not made myself familiar with this art, and also because 1 knew it would create thrill of interest aud fire me with ambi- ton, and that's what hollow eyed valid needs to put him Oil the rold 10 recovery.
 The boxing glove is d large, fat nitten with an abnormal lhumb, and a string at the wrist by which you tie it ou, so that when you feed it to your adver- sary he cannot swallow it and choke himself. 1 had never seen any boxing gloves before. out my brother said they were soft and wouldn't hurt anybody. 50 we took off some of our raj ment aud put them on. Then we shook hands. That was to show that we were friendly, and would not slay each other. My br other is a good deal younger than 1 am, and SD 1 warned him not to. get excited and come for me with anything that ioDk ed like wild and ungovernable fury, because 1 might in the heat of debate pile his jaw on his fore head anI fill his ear full of sore thumb. He said that was all right, and he would try and be cool and collected. Then We put our right toes close together. aud 1 told him to De on his guard. At that moment 1 dealt him tp.rific blow, aimed at his nose, but through d clerical error of mine it went over his shoulder, and spent itself m the wall of his room, shutterIng d small holly wood bracket, fur which l paid him three dollars and seventy five cents afterWard. 1 did not wish to but the bracket, because 1 had two at home, but he Was arbitrary about 1t, and 1 bought it. We then took another ath- letic posture, and in two minute9 the air was full of pOultfced thumb and buckSkin mitten. 1 seOn detected a chance to put one in where my brother would smell of it, but I never knew just where it struck, for at that pnO- ment 1 ran against something with the pit of my 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 I had not sufficiently punished him, and that another round would complete the con- quest, which was then almost within my grasp. 1 tOok a blo' muth powder and squared my self; but in warding off left handler, I forgot all about my ad-