, 1890-10-23
JACK VIEWS
The Finish of His Fight
With La Blanche.
C0WARDLY BLOW DEFEATED HIM
His Fruitless Efforts. to Make the
Marine Fight Again-Demp-
sey's Tactics,

"a's w. ~ '.'OcN
emphatlcally that boxing contests
as compared with football are not
rough sport In the first place the
contestants, If properly trained, are
In such fine physical condition, 30
strong of limb, 80 hard Of flesh, that
blows do not hurt or cause them
distress, but only invigorate. Every
man who has faced furious hail
storm and has felt the blood mount
ing higher and higher and his spir-
Its rising till at last he has laughed
as the hurricane whirled him about,
knows something about the exhila-
ration felt by those who face each
other In the ring and stand up un-
der 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 the 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 com
bative strategy of each man is as
fully developed as though he were
engaged In u duel with swords.
Boxing IL also the ultimate and
hnal test of physical power and en-
durance. BY its means men may
reach as satisfactory n conclusion as
to their physical merits as can be
reached In any manner short of
deadly combat. The practice of this
mimic war imparts hardihood. readi-
ness Of resource, cheerfulness In ad-
yersity, and above all, good temper.
l don't say that no bad-tempered
man can ever become first-class
pugilist, but 1 do say that such
cases are very rare. Hard knocks
make men good-natured, and pro-
ficiency as pugilist gives q nervous
man self-confidence that banishes
irritation. The best men do their
fighting only in the ring. Outside
of 1t they are as peaceable and ami
able as most other citizens, and are
deadly enemies of roughs and bar
room terrors.
Our nineteenth century civiliza-
ton can not afford to quarrel with
any form Of healthy wholesome ath-
letics, especially in America, where
80 large a proportion of young men
find their only exercise in swinging
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 eye and the
steady brain of the athlete.
Physical exercise means mental
rest. t' ID.
Boxing will cure:"
Dyspepsia,
Insomnia,
Consumption Qn its early stages),
Malaria,
Melanoholia,
lncipient paresis,
The blues,
Colds, coughs. sore throat and
fevers 'V
This may seem like an extrava-
CANT statement, but / do not mean
to assert that IL Is good thing for a
man to rise from sick bed to box.
l mean to say that the ailments
named, and scoissof others, spripg
from condition of the human sys-
tenn 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.
1 have tried my hand at both
wrestling and boxing, and i can say
without fear of contradiction from
amy one who knows the facts, that
the latter Is much the more merci-
full. AS to football, the newspaper
record of injuries received by players
ON the two foremost college teams,
shows a larger number of casualties
from one match than prize rings all
over the country yield in year.
There's danger of GENERALIZATION.
Through GENERALIZATION nations
relapse into barbarism. While
Egyptians were athletes they ruled
the world; while Persians were ath-
letes their arms were irresistible;
while Grecians were athletes the
banded armies of the whole cart h
could not overcome them; while the
Romans were athletes they were in
vincible. If read history Alright
these cases were all the same; riches
and luxury brought decay, corrup-
tion, sloth, and then came the
downfall. We have riches and lux
ury 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
morning.
Glove contests seem much more
damaging than they really are.
People grow excited and condemn
them as brutal because they see the
men striking each other. Their
eyes are not quick enough to gee
how few of the blows land in the
face, nor do they know how hard II
IL to hurt the face of trained pugi.
list. OF course, at times men are
knocked out, and l am now in q
position to state that it does not
hurt to be knocked out. Nature
has made express provision for such
emergencies The blow that inflicts
the Injury dulls the sensibilities
and the only really painful thing
about being knocked out 10 in the
struggle to retain consciousness and
keep up the fight. Hyams, bruised
and bleeding, rose nine times from
as many knock. down blows in the
last two rounds Of his fight with
, McAuiffe, and was finally knocked
senseless. Yet the next day hi
: stared in surprise at man wht
asked him If he was much injured
, He contended that McAulifie had
not hit him at all, and know 9
great many similar cases.
: You ask me how cane to los<
the fight to La blanche. i should