Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-12-26
NO LONGER CULTIVATED.
rho Noble Art of Using ones TIsts Scion
tincnIly.

Tho Noble Art OF Using Ones HlGtB Scion
tincaily.
We wonder il there is at this moment
nm officer in the British army or navy
who would care 60 pull off coat, waist
coat and shirt and to face q stalwart
bruiser with natures weapons" cspe-
cially If his antagonist were far heavier
and bigger than himself. 1t is not that
modern young men of rank are less
pluclSy than their predecessors; but
that boxing las, unhappily, become an
obsolete.
A more recent instance may be noted
of u not dissimilar encounter, the hero
Of which was a British naval officer
Not long after the outbreak of the
American civil war the English ship on
board of which the present marquis Of
oueensberry was serving as miGship-
man CHANGED to put in at New Orleans,
which had just been taken and occupied
by the fedculs after a rather feeble
defense on the part of the confederate
garrison. In 1862 the nnilnosity be-
tween the two belligerents was at fever
heat, and the officers and crews OF
English vessels which touched at that
great southern port were accused, not
always justly, Of sympathizing warns
ly with the confederntos. The natural
result was that when officers of the
eRyv met officers OF the American navy
at the hotels and barrooms, of which
New Orleans is full, the materials of II
very pretty quarrel between them were
easily krdle;l, so as to burst quickly
and spontaneously into q fame.
Admiral Hon. Augustus Hobart, who
nfterward passed into the Turkish
naval service and became Hobart
Pasha, relates that he was present one
evening in May, 1869, at n scene which
he nvowcd made him proud of the blood
flowing in his veins. His young COM
patriot, Lord Queensberry, then in his
1sth Year, got into an angry con-
troversy Mt Il barroom in New Orleans
with an American naval officer, much
plder and bigger than himself, on the
subject of the rights and wrongs of the
dispute which had set the two sections
of the American republic by the ears.
Straightway the two excited disputants
betook themselves TO the street outside
with the intention OF settling their diff
ferences with natures weapons-the
fists. Admiral-thcn aptain-Hobart
watched the fight. if so one-sided an
affair can bc dignitied with that name,
with intense anxiety, which, however
was rot OF long duration. After three
rounds the hmerican officer, though fa1
heavier than his boy antagonist, let it
be clearly perceived that he had had
enough, and the young English MILDLY
stood triumphant over his vanquishet
foe. 'rhis comes," remarked Capt
Hobart, "os knowing how to use YOU
fists; an accomplishment of which III
officer, either in the army or navy
? ought to be ignorant"
In like manner, we are told, in an ar
ticle which has just appeared il
Bailys Magazine, that Mr.. John Gully
formerly member of parliament foI
Pontefract told young friend CT hi
that, if he could have his way, no Eng
1ish boy, whatever his rank, should b
allowed to go forth into the world with
out having acquired at least rudimen
tary knowledge of the art of boxing. l
is impossible for any young man to pass
through 10 years of his life, especial.
IL he visits foreign countries, withou
being confronted with emergencies
when he is compelled to show wha
mettle, or, as the Americans say, grit,
he has in his composition. If as u boy
he has been taught even the elements o
what used to be termed "the noble ar
of self-defcrGe," he will know how tt
comport himself with calmncss, mnnli
nes5 ard selr-rgliance when suddenl,
called upon 10 meet Il challenge or re
sent an insult. If, on the other hand
he is totally igrorant of boxing, his pc
sition will lie neither dgnihed no
enviable should lie find himself face t
face with Il seemingly rcsolute an
slsillful boNer.-Lcndon Telegraph.