Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-22

more bIood-thirsty than the battle ac-
tually fought on a Texas border line
between Fitzsimmons and Maher, in
which the latter was knocked cold in
the second round.
And at this prize-fght held right in
New York City, between Peter Maher,
the Irish champion and born slugger,
and Joe Choynski, a clever heavy
weight from California, the principal
spectator was President Roosevelt, of
the New York Police Board, who is an
autocrat in police affairs in the metro
polls. And Roosevelt was enthusiastic
in praise of the contest. He declared
that as long as the men were evenly
matched no one had a right to COM
plain of the exhibition.
Then why were Corbett and Fitz-
simmons barred from fighting, or even
signing an agreement to fight else
where. in New York? 1t could hardly
have been on the ground that they were
not well matched, or that the exhiib-
ton would have been a brutal one. If
Police President Roosevelt could stom-
ach such an exhibition as the six round
contest between Maher and Choynsh
and declare it all right and good
thing and something to be encouraged,
he certainly could not take exception
to a similar exhibition between two
boxers who are very much more ex-
pert and much less liable to get hurt
than either the brawny Irish slugger
or the powerful heavyweight from San
Francisco.
That fight, which so delighted Roose-
Welt lasted six of the hottest rounds
ever contested anywhere in any fight.
Maher is said to be the hardest hitter
in the world and lacking only in sci
ence. a fact which enabled Choynski
to pound him about the ribs in regular
butcher fashion and get away without
punishment Maher depended chiefly
on the strength of Lis blows when he
could land" and this purely brute
force counted in the end. The big
Irishman caught Choynski two or three
times about the jaw with his pile-driver
fist. The last terrible Highlander
on the point of the jaw settled it.
Choynsh fell, rolled over, got up
in dazed way on his knees only to be
hat another terrible blow by the giant
standing over him watching his chance,
and that blow rolled Choynsh over on
his back insensible.
Brutal? Oh, no! Didn't it take
place in the refined East, in the Amer
lean metropolis Was not the great
hall crowded with he leading lights
of New York Of the male gender?
Didn't President Roosevelt, the reform
police manager of New York, express
himself delighted with the exhibition?
IL took poor Choynsk a long time to
come TO after the last terrible blow on
his Jaw that would probably have brok-
en- a two-inch plank, but who will dare
10 say that there was anything brutal
about the exhibition.
The farce in New York simply goes
TO show the idiocy of the hullaballoo
that is raised all over the land every
time a championship prizefght is to
De pulled OF, between really great
and scientific boxers-a contest in
which the whole country IS really in
terested. and in which the contestants
are very much less likely to be injured
and in which there would Of necessity
be much less brutality than in the
bloody smuggling matches that take place
almost every day in nearly every city
i'm the country. right under the nose
and with the sanction of the bolice as
glove contests There is too much
hypocrisy on the part of the authori-
ties in regard to this subject, and too
much ignorance on the part OF the
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