The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-04-17
BOXING FOR THE YOUNG.
Old-PaShiOned Boxing Exercises Ire
The Best Thing.
Presents 81 Boring 0IOves which
Are Doing GFsaS ThInG In
one Family.

Delsarte for young people, but have
come to the conclusion that good old.
fashioned boxing exercises are about the
best thing ! know Of for children. both
boys and girls" said 4 South Side gen.
tleman. AT Christmas time my family
physician made my children q present Of
four pairs Of boxing gloves. Ny wife was
Mortified and abused the doctor for intro
ducing anarchy into our quiet home, but
he laughed at her and remarked that
anarchy and health were u better combi-
nation than propriety and illness. The
disturbance began at once. Ny oldest
boy, who is IL, is Just at the age 10 take
more interest in the Marquis OF Queens
berry than in President Harrison and his
cabinet. He has studied the science as
every boy does, and had attended what
sparTing matches he could without detec-
tion at home. He, Of course, knew all
about boxing and was willing to act as
trainer for the other. His training was
better than his own skill or else he had
apt pupils, for he is no longer the sulli.
van Of the household.
"At first we had bruised noses and
blOOdshot eyes 30 nrominent that the
children were not fit to be seen, and their
teachers accused them Of fighting as they
came and went from school. But they
did not tire Of the sport as they called il,
and they are now the hardest and health
lest lot Of youngsters In the neighbor.
hood.
Harry was not satisfied with teaching
his brothers to use the gloves. but he
insisted upon his sister learning boxing.
She Is only two years younger and almost
at the age when girls begin to think Of
long dresses, but she is always ready for
romp with the boys, and she went into
training with them. l am surprised at
her interest and how soon she learned to
strike out like man. She is taller than
Harry and has the advantage Of him in
long arms.
THE favorite exercising hour Is bed
time, and at that hour the house is In an
uproar. The other night my wife and l
slipped up stairs, and there were two
rings formed. In one were the two little
fellows, stripped to their shirts, slugging
each other like born puRilists. In the
other ring Harry and his sister were hav-
ing bout. He was stripped to under
shirt and trousers, and she to waist and
short skirt. Harry had ceased to regard
her as girl Of whom he must be tender.
He was doing his level best, just as he
would with boy Of his own age, but she
parried his blows with skill that was
surprising, and got in some very solid
knocks that staggered the young man.
She beat him In every round, and when
Harry discovered his mother and me
watching them he was very much hu'
INFLATED. He declared that she took
advantage Of him, but the little fellows
stood by their sister and were ready to
quote the rules against him on every
point. The upshot Of II all is that the
one girl In the household is the champion
and her brothers calls call her John l..
Sullivan.
You'd hardly think her q Sullivan as
you see her walk along the street with
me, would your Tall and wilIowy, with
her pretty face, she Is one Of the prettiest
girls on the south side, and how she
would blush II you intimated that she
was a slugger.
1--WE don't allow the children to have
their gloves on Sunday night, but about
q week ago there were some friends who
dropped in on their way from church,
and the little fellows went to bed with
out their mother going up with them.
After We thought they were In bed and
asleep we heard q disturbance In their
room and my wife suggested that | had
better 60 up and see what the boys were
about. suspected that they had broken
the rule and slipped out their gloves. I
slipped upstairs very gently along the
passage to. the door Of their room.
could hear the whaeks Of their gloves as
thev beat each other, and, when I was
near enough TO see, there they were with
nothing on but the gloves, and they were
having the liveliest fight I ever saw.
They were laughing and pounding, and
had evidently forgotten all about Sunday
and the company down stairs. without