The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-07-20
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handed tournament with the gloves. l
have filled my nose with cotton waste
so that / shall not soak this sketch in
gore as | write.
| needed a little healthful exercise
and was looking for something that
would be full of vigorous enthusiasm,
and at the same time promote the
healthful flow of blood to the muscles.
This was rather difficult. / tried most
everything, but failed. Being a sociable
being Goke) | wanted other people to
help me exercise, or go along with me
when [ exercised Some men can 90
away to desert isle and have fun with
dumb-bells and horizontal bar, but to
me it would seem dull and common.
place after awhile, and [ would yearn
for more humanity.
Two of us finally concluded to play
billiards, but we were only amateurs
and the owner intimated that he would
want the table for Christmas, so we
broke off in the middle of the first game
and / paid for it.
Then a Younger brother said he had a
set of boxing gloves in his room, and al
though [ was the taller and had longer
arms he would hold up as long as he
could and | might hammer him until
gained strength and finally got well.
accepted this offer because | had
often regretted that had not made my
self familiar with this art, and also be-
cause | knew it would create thrill of
interest and fire me with ambition, a nd
that's what hollow-eyed invalid needs
to 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
cannot swallow it and choke himself. I
had never seen any boxing-gloves before.
but my brother said they were soft and
wouldn't hurt anybody. So we took off
some of our raiment and put them on.
| Then we shook hands. / can remember
distinctly yet that we shook hands.
That was to show that we were friendly
and would not STAY each other.
My brother is a good deal younger
than | am and so l warned him not to
get excited and come for me with any
thing that would look like wild and I'M
governable fury because | might in the
heat of debate pile his jaw up on his
forehead and fill 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
together and | told him to be on his
guard. At that moment | dealt him q
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 SCATTERING small,
holly wood bracket for which paid
him So. IS afterward. did not wish to
buy the bracket because l had two at
home, but he was arbitrary about 1t
and [ bought it.
We then took another athletic posture,
and in two seconds the air was full of
poulticed thumb and buckskin mitten.
I { soon detected a chance to put one in
where my brother could smell of it, but
4 d never knew Just where it struck, for at
that moment / ran up against something
with the pit of my stomach that made
me throw up the sponge along with
some other groceries, the names Of
which / cannot now recall.
My brother then proposed that we
take off the gloves, but l thought l had
not sufficiently punished him, and that
another round would complete the con-
quest. which was then almost within
my grasp I took bismuth powder
and squared myself, but in warding off
a left-hander, l forgot about my adver-
sary's right and ran my nose into the
middle Of his boxing-glove. Fearing
that | had injured him, l reiterated rap
idly on my elbows and shoulder-blades
to the corner of the room, thus giving
him ample time to recover. By this
means my younger brothers features
were saved and are to-day as symmet-
rical as my own.
can still cough up pieces of boxing
gloves, and when l close my eyes L can
see calcium lights and blue phosphores-
cent CLEANS across the horizon, but
am thoroughly convinced that there is
no physical exercise which yields the
same amount of health and elastic vigor
to the puncher that the manly art does.
To the punchee, also, it affords large
wad of glad surprises and nose bleed,
which cannot be hurtful to those who
banker for the pleasing nervous shock,
the spinal jar and the pyrotechnic con-
cussion.
That is why 1 shall continue the ex-
ercises after have practiced with a
mule or cowcatcher two or three
weeks, and feel little more confidence
in myself.-BiU Nye, IN Detroit Free
Press.