New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-03-31
Exercise With Boxing Gloves.

glOVesconteSt, and who read in the ;.
papers that Smith Or Jones had been
knocked out by Brown or Robinson,
Jump at once to the conclusion that
something brutal and revolving to the /.
better instincts of human nature took
place. AS every lover of athletic exer-
clses well knows, this is not neces-
sarlly the case, nor indeed can it be
truly said that in one instance out OF
twenty are brutal exhibitions witness
ed at glove contests"
These observations fell from the lips
OF a. prominent member OF the New
York bar, as he noted the points made
by the amateur boxers in Tammanys
Hall, where the young men were con-
tending for championship honors, un-
der the auspices of the New York Ath--
letic Club. The lawyer, who is him
| SELF member of the club, and an en-
thusiastic. advocate OF boxing in g.
moderate. way as healthful exercise,
drew quite a little audience around
him by his earnest comments between
the bouts, and was listened to with
respectful attention, for it was evil
dent that he felt and meant all he.
| said. As two members OF the Star
| and Pastime Athletic Clubs shook
| hands after three pretty rounds,
whica made the perspiration fioWfree-
| ly, the lawyer proceeded:
saIhese young fellows will need no
medicine as long as they continue to
take their exercise with the zest they
have exhibited here tonight. The
| gloves bring out the muscles OF the
arms and chest far better than the
oars or dumb bells, and while their
abuse must be condemned, their prop
er use should be applauded and en-
couraged. Thispeculiar exercise gives
a young man manly spirit, and
sends his whole frame aglcw in a style
no other athletic pastime can"
would you maintain these doc
trines in the presence ofyour family"
inquired a young man who joined the
circle.
DECIDEDLY so; my boys have a few
rounds every morning before break
fast, and their appetites don't suffer
in consequence. IN this hall tonight
we have lawyers, doctors, merchants
and editors, and none of them
are in disguise, and none think
they violate any precept OF property
in being here. The New York Athletic
Club has done a meutorious work in
establishing boxing among its
regular exercises and thus removing
the unfounded prejudice against it. l
speak, OF course, of boxing as conduct
ed by gentlemen IN friendly and gen.
tlemanly way"
;'Youdo not consider it a dangerous
exercise?" queried Sheriff Grant, who
by this time had become one OF the
little audience
Theories are of no consequence
when we can have facts, and the fact
is that no man was ever killed or dis
abled for life in a contest with boxing
gloves"
POSSIBLY because men are deterior-
ating in our day land havefallen away
form the old standard ofphyeical ex-
cellence."
Nonsense, we are not deteriorating.
Blows have been struck quite recently
With gloved hands which, if admins
tered with the naked clenched fist,
would have brought instant death. 1
could give many instances but will
contine Myself to one, in which M. E.
! =. Buerineyer, OF our club, who is
! officiating here as referee, was con-
testant against George Lee, OF the
Union Club Of Boston. Lee was
knocked out Of time by blow on the
|jugular vein, and his neck would have
been broken had Buermeyer not worn
gloves"
"Has the general use of gloves been
hor, io1 ~. ot h n Gov c,
cal development is concerned?"
at has been beneficial in more ways
than one, by making the exercise more
general and by doing away with it's
brutal features. Professionals who
box for money and do great deal of
loud talking to make people think
they are superior beings, are fast reap.
ing the contempt they deserve. The
great mass of them are frauds on the
public, and the general introduction
OF glove bouts as a gentlemanly exer-
else will send the professionals into
obscurity. The so-called prize fights
in recent days have been nothing more
or less than exhibitions to make
money, and the number Of fools who
have faith in these seE-styled fighters
40 NAseAiy SiO"lIS icoo. Lie ldSO AdCdi
prize fight that | remember in this
country was between Charles Dram,
OF San Francisco, and George Emer-
son, Of Boston. 1t was fought in
California in August, 1881, and Dram
was killed in the ring in the eighth
round. In August, 1876, Weeden
and Walker fought seventy-six rounds,
in a wood near Pennsville, N. J.
Walker was taken away dead from
the ring and Weeden served six years
for the crime in the Trenton prison.
In England there have been dozens OF
fatal cases, the last of which took
place in October, 1881, in which James
Carney killed James Highland. Car
ney was indicted for man slaughter and
escaped with six months sentence.
In former years in England prize fight
ers who killed their men in the ring
usually escaped scot free. No gloves
were used in any of the fatal cases
mentioned, and the fact that low