The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-11
THE KIARAIN-SLAyIN BATTLE.
A Splendid Spectacle Described by q
Famous Writer.
n Quad in the New York World.


N. Quad in the New York World
More than thousand people are gath
cred here under this roof, ana as look
which might be called evil. Where there
Is one such there are twenty which reflect
respectability-honesty-pity.
They tell you that fight with gloves be-
tween two trained men is an exhibition of
brutality. Let Us see. This crowd has not
gathered here to witness scenes of brutal
ity, but to watch every point in a contest
between men who have been trained to
skill, dexterity and endurance.
The hands on the clock mark almost
IL 80 as they are uncovered in their chairs.
and the crowd bushes its murmers as
every eye inspects the pair of gladiators
No man ever entered the arena at Rome to
battle for his life before a king with
muscles standing out like these-with legs
SO strong and supple-with arms to strike
such blows. You feel to rejoice as you
look upon them that man can be brought
to such physical perfection. You wonder
if Adam was created thus-strength, sup
pleness and consciousness of his DO wers
TO endure
Hush! They meet in the center to shake
hands! Be quiet The royal battle is
about to begin! Look at theml The tread
of lion on the desert sands would make
more noise than do their feet as they slide
about. Every muscle given to the human
frame is working as they face each other.
How their blood must jump and tingle-
hsw their pulses throb as they look into
each others eyes and are alert for the
slightest movement
Once in the winter quarters of menag-
erie saw two lions do battle. They were
kings among beasts as these are kings
among men. The lions circled about each
other as do these men. Their eyes blazed
into each Others, tented. lodged, ad-
vanced and retreated Suddenly they
rushed together and struck fiercely at each
other. but here the parallel ceases. These
men do not grapple and roll to the floor
and seek each others Threats.
Did you follow the blow? The muscles in
the great shoulder punched up, the lungs
filled with air, and the arm shot out with
power enough to have felled an OK Itdid
not land. There goes a seconds third.
and as they reach the hard hesh the echo
comes back as if the target had been a
brick wall
For long weeks these gladiators have
been carefully fed and nursed. Every
hour of the day has had its share in the
mission-to prepare them for the en-
counter. Almost every muscle has been
under supervision-every mouthful of food
and drink has been given understandingly.
One minute of such exertion as this would
so exhaust the unframed man that he
would sink in his tracks. One such blow
as they would give and take would kill
you and I as surely and almost as swiftly
as a charge of buckshot.
The crowd cheers. Not because il sees a
little blood-not because one contestant is
daZed by terrible blog-but as an escape
valve for every onlooker's nervousness
Here sits q man with hard-shut teeth
there'is one with fingers tightly clenched
"A third fairly holds himself in his chair
There Is not one in all the crowd whose
heart is not beating as If be were menaced
with some great peril.
Watch the gladiators as the bell strikes
TO send them 10 their corners for a min
ute's rest In the three last minutes
these men have exerted strength sufficient
to have cleared Broadway of its pavement
for a stretch of thirty feet. From
every pore of the skin the
perspiration oozes out as water
bubbles from the ground. The lungs have
taken in and expelled more air than would
suffice a man at his desk for two hours.
They pant like dogs after miles of running.
again. Their seconds fan them, rub them
down, sprinkle them with cold water, and
at the end of the minute they rise again as
new men.
There is biood-there is blow which
proStrates one who might have posed to
the artist who first gave us picture of
Hercules-hut il is not brutality 1t is 4
demonstration of skill and dexterity of
what man can do and endure, which fills
Won with
Advance. guard, feint. counter, grapple
and break! So il goes on, and if there
were 500 women here every one would
have her eyes on the ring. Nero never
ran battle like it. No tyrant's amphi-
thea:er ever witnessed such skill and
endurance-such climax of perfection or
physical training.
IL is over at last, but no one is glad that
ii is finished as . spectacle. II has been i
signboard TO more than one hero tonight
that the road 10 health and manly vigor
runs not past the doctors office and the
drug store, but out on the grass-green
meadows, with simple diet. pure air and
plenty of sleep rs mile posts.
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