The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-05
DEMPSEY TAKES THE PEN.
he DESCRIBES THE FINISH OF HIS
FIGHT WITH LA BLANCHE.

FIGHT WITH LA BLANCHE.
The Nonpareil Says It was a Cowardly
Blow That Caused His Defsat-gis
Fruitless Efforts TO Make the Marine
Fight Asain-Dsmpsey Explains lis
Tactics-Ee Never Feels His Punish-
nent When Fighting-His Plans for
the Future.
(Coryrfoht)
NEW YORK, Oct.4.-Ihave been asked what
think of the action of the California author
titles in shutting down on boxing exhibitions.
Ny candid opinion is that the prohibition
can not continue. There is too much inter
est taken in the sport il San Francisco and
the other great town aud cities. The move
nent in San Francisco is only a wave from
the agitation begun in the east a few years
ago and will not last long.
The opposition TO glove contests comes
from those who have never witnessed them
and VINO judge of them merely by one or
two facts or impr essions.
Speaking as a man who has had some ex.
Perience, wish to say most emphatically
that boxing contests are not rough sport.
In the first place, the contestants, if prop
erly trained, are in such fine physical con-
dltion, so strong of limb, 30 hard of flesh.
that blowSdo not hurt or cause them dis
tress, but only invigorates. Every man
who has faced furious hall-storm, and has
felt the blood mounting higher and higher
and his spirits rising till at last he has
laughed as the hurricane whirled him
about. knows something of the exhilaration
felt by those who face each other in the
ring and stand up under showers of blows.
The beauty of boxing is that 1t exercises
and brings into action every muscle in the
human body, from the tip of tho toe to the
end Of the finger. The muscles of the legs,
the back, the arms, the neck, all have full
play, and the natural combative strategy
of eac man is as fully developed as though
he was engaged in duel with swords.
BoxlSg is also the ultimate and final test
OF physical power and endurance By its
neans men may reach as satisfactory a
conclusion as to their physical merits as
can be reached in any manner short of
deadly combat The practice Of this mimic
war impartI hardihood, readiness OF re-
source, cheerfulness in adversely, and atove
adj, good temper. / don't say Gnat no bad
tempered man can ever become frst-class
puglllst, but | do say that such cases are
very rare. Hard knocks make men good
natured, and proficiency as pugilist gives
a nervous man sslf-confidenoe that banishes
irritation. The best men do their fighting
only in the ring Outside of it they are as
peaceable aad amiable as most other cici-
zens, and are deadly enemies OF roughs and
Darroom terrors.
Our nineteenth century civilization can
not afford to quarrel with any form If
healthy, wholesome athletics, especially in
America. where so large a proportion Of
young men find their only exercise in swing
ing pens and lifting ledgers. Half an hours
WORK with the gloves each day would give
to these young men the sure foot, the strong
arm, the hard muscle, the clear eve and the
steady brain Of the athlete.
Physical exercise means mental rest.
Boxing will cure:
Dyspepsia,
insomnia,
Consumption lin its early stages,
Malaria,
Melencholia,
lncipiert paresis,
The blues,
| Colds, coughs, sore throat and fevers
This may seem like an extravaganza state
ment, but do not me n to assert that it is
| good thing for man to rise from sic Z
| bed to box. mean to say that the ailments
named, and scores of others, spring from q
condition of this human system, which could
not exist If proper care and exercise were
taken. The christian scientists are very
nearly right in their assertion that sickness
| is sin.
| 1t seems somewh hat inconsistent for the au.
| thorities 20 prohibit what are called glove
| fights, and yet allow wrestling and foot ball
| matches to proceed. | have tried my hand
at both wrestling and boxing, aud can
| say without fear of contradiction from any
| one who knows the facts, that the latter is
much the most rnerciful. AS to foot ball
the newspaper record of injuries received
by players on the two foremost college
teams, shows larger number of casualties
from one match than prize rings all over
the country yield ia year.
There's danger of GENERALIZATION.
Through GENERALIZATION nations relapse
into barbarism. While Egyptians were
athletes they ruled the world; while Per-
slant were athletes their arms were irresis-
tible; while Grecians were athletes the
| banded armies of the whole earth could
| not overcome them; while the Romans
were athletes they were invincible. If !
read history Alright these cases were all the
same; riches and luxury brought decay,
| corruption, sloth, and then came the down
fall. We have riches and luxury now, and
| think can see some evidences of sloth
| There are scores of thousands of men in
New York who never give their muscles
| any harder exercise than they can get from
pulling on their boots in the naorring.
Glove contests SEEM much more dam
aglag than they really are People grow
| excited aud condemn them as brutal be-
cause they see the mon striking each othsr.
Their eyes are not quick enough to see how
| few Of the blows la1d in the face, nor dc
they know how bard it is to hurt the face OF
trained pugiliss. OF course, at times men
| are knocked out, and am now ii. q position
to state that it does not hurt TO be
knocked out Nature has made ex.
press provision for such emergencies.
The blow that infiots enc injury duIls the
sensibilities, and the only really painful
thing about being knocked cut is in the
struggle to retain Consciousness and keep up
the fight. Hyams. bruised and bleeding,
rose nine times from as many nock-down
blows in the last two rounds of his fight
with McAuliffe, and was finally knocked
senseless. Yet the next day be started in
surprise at man who asked him if he was
much injured. lie contended that McAuliffe
had not hit him at all; and / know great
many similar cases.
| You ask ms how ! came to lose the fight
to La Blanches / should not have lost it. l
did not lose it fairly. The match went
against me partly by reason OF a deliberate
foul committed by the Marine, and partly
through the fault of tine referee, who ought
to have Immediately given me the fight Up
to the round before the last had the best
of it. In fact, was winning, with plenty
! to fna hall 10