Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-09

ings Of the ring, evidently II is much
better that they should do so IN re-
liglous daily. BY printing the best re-
port OF the New Orleans mill that came
TO Texas, THE GAZETTE was enabled
to reach new audience Of many thous-
ands, who will no doubt profit by the
admonitlons given outside the record
Of the prize-fght.
AT the union depot in this city yes
terday morning thrifty newsboy
whose stock OF GAzETTEs was running
low substituted a Dallas News for a
GAZETTE whom the latter was called for
by q gentleman who had just arrived on
Katy passenger train. The pur-
chaser had installed himself In scat
in crowded street car before he dis
covered the deception. He abandoned
his seat, pursued the newsboy and de-
handed GAZETTE in exchange for
the copy OF the News which he had
unwittingly purchased. The incident
was Illustrative OF the demand which
made yeste rday's issue of the GAZETTE
the largest regular issue Of daily news
paper ever printed on Texas press
II footed up just seventeen thousand,
eight hundred and ninety papers and,
by the accepted method OF calculation,
80, $50 people read Of the overthrow Of
| the chanpipn I'm yegferday's GAZETTE.
THE STATUS OF THE COMMISSION
THE GAzETTEs report from Austin
promptly negatives the idea Of Especial
session Of the legislature to pass a new
commission law.
Gov. Hogg is represented as having
full faith In the final triumph Of the
present law and the reversal Of Judge
McCormick's decision.
The suggestion Of a special session
was probably made without Il correct
idea Of the present status Of tho com
mission. 1t seems to be the popular
understanding that it Is legally dead
This is mistake Judge McCormick's
order was merely temporary injunc-
ton. restraining the commission from
o'''O'' '"s 'u ""n0'noo" arms "".i
in cases pending in the Federal district
court at Austin. 1t Is expected that
these eases will bo reached soon and
disposed OF by trial, which will de-
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or THE RING
Man has always gloried in his |
strength In an nations and In every |
stage OF civilization the athlete has
been demi-god. the earliest history |
makes monitor OF games and contests
in which tho eontesiantseXhibitod agil-
n.y. endurance and strength. Thor,
the Norwegian Joye, was maulcr par
excellence and Joye was deiiiod, not so
much because OF noble attributes as be-
cause he could Hing his bolts with su-
perhninan force
W "''p' "u7 Ho'u III hlEh eslecm ny |
the ancionts' and in Crock mythology |
PolluN' Hercules and minor deities are |
represented as eNeelllng in what is now |
termed the manly art So high an cs-
Innate did The Greeks place upon this
display OF muscular skill that only free
men were allowed to enter the lists,
When, however 1t became profession
1t was less highly esteemed.
Pugilistic encounters have always
been Il iayorite pastlmo with Anglo
SuNons' All nations OF that blood love
II square fight and honor the best man
In It, Az carly as the days of Alfred,
boxing was a gontlemanly sport, and
royalty did not dlsdain To become its
patrons Even in 1877, England enter
'aInod the Car OF Russia with prize
nghH aud Nicholas shook hands with
tho yictors.
beeausc OF tho low tricks and dis
honorable practices OF Its supporters,
the prize fight came under the ban Of
tho law, and ii was not until 1860 that
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