The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-02-20
HARD GLOVES.
The Gymnasium Boys We're Paint
ina the Floor Red.

The young fellows about town, as
we'll as some of those who are the
winter side of the twenties have a
great deal of amusement around on
Washington avenue, where, over
Kuenzli & Luscher's store, the mem
bers of the Y. M. G.. A. have gym
nasium and rooms for innocent
amusement, reading, etc. The rooms
we're dropped during the summer, but
month or more ago Prof. j. L. Tor
rens took hold of the enterprise, passed
the hat around town for a popular
subscription, and secured enough
money to warrant the re-opening OF
the rooms for the winter.
Prof. Torrens takes more or less
interest in the resort, inasmuch as he
has fathered it this year. Aside from
attending to his routine duties as
principal of the city schools, figuring
out the enigmatical problem of max
ing IS inches out of 81, studying over
the 47th problem of Euclid, and SIM
liar subjects, he drops around to the
gymnasium to see that everything is
moving along properly and that no
one has been killed by over-exertion.
Shortly after the opening OF the
rooms, until about week ago, the
Professor discovered, at almost every
visit made, more or less blood on the
floor in the sparring department. He
was greatly surprised, with each visit,
to find that the blood increased in
pools, instead of diminishing. He
we'll remembered the boys OF the
gymnasium telling him that six-ounce
boxing gloves we're the proper instru-
ments for the developing of muscles
tending to pugilism. He also remem-
bered that after the boys told him to
be sure and get six-ounce gloves that
he, fearing that six-ounce gloves would
hurt the antagonists, sent for four
ounce. He contended that four-ounce
gloves should not hurt any one. The
gloves came in due course of time,
and the Professor, chuckling to him
self, handed them to the boys, with
the statement that he guessed they
were light enough not to hurt any
body. The boys took to the gloves ip
an innocent manner, and sent blow
after blow into each other with the
too often result that some of them
would quit the field of practice with
carmine running freely from their
proboscis. They took their medicine
smilingly, however, and said nothing
until about two weeks they decided
to weigh the gloves. The result was
that they discovered that they had
been hammering each other with four
ounce gloves. A committee was ap-
pointed to wait on the Professor after
the latter had discovered the pools of
blood, and ask him what be meant.
"Well, you see, boys" he replied
innocently, "you wanted six-ounce
gloves. I was afraid that they we're
too hard, and some OF you would be
hurt. So I ordered four. I guess
that I should have ordered two ounce,
don't you think so7"
The committee broke out in unani-
NOUS laugh. Finally one of them in
formed Prof. Torrens that in order to
get gloves that wouldn't hurt, he must
60 up the scale of weight and not
down. The Professor gave the matter
second thought and Immediately Or
dered set of five-ounce gloves for the
boys. As a result there have been
fewer successful attempts to paint
the gymnasium floor deep red since
the new gloves arrived on the spot.