Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-27
a BEAUTIFUL FIGHT.
noxers Pounding Each Other win
thlnly Stuffed Gloves Scientific
settle on Qucensburlan plan.
s'sss ~ 'he Noble Art Of self-nsfense.
What rralaer says OF AIS
business.


man 10 pound and be pounded WITH the
ust Of wickedncss done up IN a slightly
padded Bid glove The unhappy stranger
20 the JOYS ibuxine sees only two men.
whqm he believes 10 De crazy but doesn't
care 70 Say SO, hopping around with the
eninaslasHi Of yonag and misguided game.
cocks catering each others faces out Of
shape and INDUCING In yatiegated assault
and battery.
YET every man who learns the art Of
using his fists instead OF the sword ana
shield soon finds out that the puni hmeut
Is not so hard to takoafterall Hupdr, al
OF young men VINO shiue Ia New York
society have developed strong liking for
the fstic science OF late years, and the
Fever OF punching heads with 4 care IS
rapidly growing. Very few men who
looked on the old.llme prize fights ever
cared 10 try their own hands at that sort
o. thing. Thespectacle OF broken.iawe
giant staggering 10 his corner vita his
shapeless face dripping blood was not cal.
eulated To attract q man toward learning
how 70 get himself In the same Ak. hut
IN 1873 arose Prof William G. Mcclellan,
4 good man, and true, OF middle weight,
with a great and level head The noble
aud truly good marquis OF Queensbury
had formulated code OF henehcent rules
for head and rib banging u few years be.
fore this, IN which he STORMY forbade
back-heeling, whereby the simple. minded
slugger Is easily made 10 stand on his head
IN the midst OF round, or any sort OF
wrestling, which always gave the heavy
man the advantage.
! oN THF OF EENsBURiAN PLAN.
II struck Prof Mcclellan that Il would
be beautiful thing TO see pairof evenly
matched boxers pound, each other with
thinly stuffed boxing gloves on the
| lueensbnflan plan. He believed that
people would come miles 10 zee such a
sot-to, 80 he matched himself alnst
handsome Michael Donovan, aud gave the
| ZIP 10 scores Of young men about town.
| They paid fabulous sums Of money for
| tickets TO witness the scrimmagc, aud
they We're happy when IN = saw bcauti-
fnl hght, with lots OF science in Il and no
raw and bleeding faces. The professor
knew more about the marquis chan Mr.
Dopovan did, aud he got tho best Of him;
hut handsome Mike went home and
stu He'd up. Before the end Of The year
the pair came together again In the pres
ence Of 100 wealthy young men, and Dou-
oysn had the pleasure Of scientifically
pounding the professor twice "a hard as
| The pr lessor pounded him,
All this was done IN the most graceful
and pleasing way, and the Young men
said 10 themselves that Il must be fine fun,
and that boxing was not such a deadly
thing after all. So they began taking les-
sons from both OF the Fighters, and thus
came about the renaissance OF fsticun In
New York, The more the young men
knew about sparripg, the more they
wanted TO see glove fights. Therefore, II
was that they locked by thousands 10
Madison Square garden TO watch The Inn
mortal John OF Boston, dapper Charles
| Mitchell OF England, and youthful
Dominlck McCafrey Of Pittebuig, watt
one another about a high platform with
beautiful, pillow-like, white Kid gloves.
Stand on upper Fifth avenue any hue
Sunday afternoon. You will see scores
OF clear-sklnned, quiet young fellows in
| the promenadIng throng, faultlessly
pressed and almost NJ lisiless as the
dudes whose elbows rub theirs. You
would not at the frst glance think there
was good fight In dozen OF them, hut
drop IN at the New York Athletic club
twenty-four hours later and you will sse
how they can spar. Donovan, their
veteran teacher, saye that four three.
minute rounds apiece with two or three
Of them send him home fit 10 sleep for
week.
The BUSINESS or a TRAINER.
"a HThere are no quicker. stronger or cley.
Ierer sparrlng men In the world than New
Workers. said retired fighter, 'and !
can't understand how they have all sprung
up SO quickly When began TO fight for
living, fifteen years ago, you could count
on one hand all the amateurs In this city
who were worth naming; now you can't
throw stone ON Fifth avenue without
hitting a iirst-class heavy, middle or light
weight.
GLOW do train them? Well, that's
a hard question. No two are worked
alike, and course OF sprouts that would
lust take the surplus flesh of burly,
neayy fellow, would half kill q weaker
man, 1t IL hard TO keep young aud en-
tbuslastIc men from OVERRIDING their train
ing. know very promising young anna
teur VINO was putting himself In iettle a
few weeks ago TO contest the biggest
event OF Ills lfe. He ran ten
miles day as hard az
he could 10. punched the bag and put
uy dnmbbells. He flled Ia the spare
time on pulls weights, What WAS The re-
suit? He came up a. the cali Of time
with his face pale ana this ana ms legs
webbing Why? Because he mad over.
done Il, be was oyerirained, u man
want 10 make good boxer Of himself ne
ought 70 20 frst 70 his physician ana
make sure that his heart and Lungs ana
other Organs are sound Then let MIN
pick out competent teacher ana go 10
work under his instructions
Hlf the teacher Is q leyel-heRded man
ne will make him use light dump,0slls'
say not over four or 1--we pounds, 70
strengthen his arms, and run him. hrst
half mile, snd then gradually increase
the distance up o three OF tour niles
day, thus building mp his hreathingpower
and putting muscles on his legs ana IONS.
The would-be boxer should take plenty 81 |
sleep-at least eight hours q day tai
three ola d, substantial meals dayi Hnd,
above al, let alcoholic liquors ana 70 |
baceo alone. Not use them In m0dera- |
ton, miad you but let them alone Inc
Ola ideas ah0nt half starving man ~
treinlne. and working him down 70 askel-
eton. have gone out Of date There's /
one thing nearly forgot, and it's lmpor.
tant. TOO. No man ever became good
aghter unless be had good heart ny
that mean the pluck, or sand or whAs-
ever yon call II, that makes men Keep
battling IS long es he has 8 leg V stanh
an and blt OF breath IN hia body
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