Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-04
ALAWLESS ..SPORT..3

Prize fighting is brutal and demoraliz-
ing and promoti3e of lawlessness. If
any argument were needed in behalf of
severe enactments against principals and
accessories in such debasing contests it
would be found in the Associated Press
telegram from New York, printed in yes
terday' IS GAZETTE:
Yesterday morning BUD Remand received tele-
gram from Capt.J T. Jamison of Meridian, Miss. :,
saying he would accept Renand's terms and
bring twenty men with Winchester rifles to pre-
serve order at the ring. Capt Jamison is a
noted character in the South, and his company
recently quelled bloody riot near Meridian af-
ter an exceedingly hot fight. Remand has every
confidence in the captains ability to
preserve order, and everybody here believes if
any attempt is made by the crowd to break into
the fighting square lives will be sacrificed. It is
this knowledge of a thorough determination to
see fair play that is relied upon to hold the des
perate element in check. Remand 400, or those
who are expected to pay s15 each for tickets to be
spectators from the inner ring, are popularity
supposed to be men who would under no circum-
stances interfere with the fighters. Capt. Jami-
sons men viii be placed in the outside ring to
hold the SO crowd in check. Only the referee,
seconds, umpire and bottle holders, and perhaps
half dozen picked men, viii be allowed in the
small Enclosure around the battle ring and in
front of the spectators of the inner ring. If
however, an outbreak should occur among the
members of Buds 400, and it is well known
fact in New York that even 400 do not always
agree there would be little nothing to pre-
vent a shower of leaden balls that would stagger
a Ward McAllister or a Stuyvesant Fish. Rem
and expects that there viii be about two thous-
and five hundred spectators at the fight. Other
Judges estimate the size of the crowd at $500,
and some Of the sports place the number at 5000.
Renand's figures viii probably be found most
correct. In this crowd nine men out of every
ten will carry firearms, and they are men who
can handle gums as easily as boy can spin
a top. Wherever coterie of sports is gathered
the s'gun' subject is discussed. There is an
under current of apprehension that should
things go wrong there viii be a fusilade of bull
lets. Remand and the ''old-timers'' say there
viii be no disturbance. and that the affair will
be as peaceful and as joyous as Sunday school
picnic.
Any exhibition that justifies the en-
pIoyment of an armed force to preserve
the peace is essentially lawless in its
spirit and tendency, and should be
treated as such. What right has ''Bud
Remand to usurp the prerogative of the
law and provide for fsthe maintenance
of order?'' What right has "Capt.
Jamison and his twenty men to shoot
down people at the behest of Bud Rem
and?'' If this prize fight takes place
in Louisian, Mississippi or Ala
bama or any other state, it will be a
public disgrace if such commonwealth
does not seek out and punish all who
may be concerned in it; and the civiliza-
ton of the country demands that the
brutality and lawlessness of the prize
ring be eTeetualy suppressed.