The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-12-29
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\ PAPER THAT PRAISES MALEDIC
TIONS UPON \ NOBLE GAME.
Extremely Severe on the Gridiron and
Pigskin Pastime-Says It's Worse
Than Prize Fighting-A Wall.

9Th. The Interior is the leading Pres
byterian paper of Chicago, both bright
and iudicious. Its position seems to
be somewhat extreme, that the game
is as brutal as prize fighting. The lat
ter does not reach its full natural
brutality under present severe legal
restrictions.
1t will be we'll for our educators and
law makers to read and consider these
severe things now being said about
foot ball~in influential papers.
S. E. BISHOP.
| We Americans, of late years, have
compounded for sins in this depart
ment of satanic activity by fierce de-
nunciations and penalties against
prize fighting, which is certainly the
/ least objectionable of all exhibitions
of physical brutality. The writer of
this has never had the pleasure of wit
Messing a prize fight, nor even pro-
fessional boXing-match, but has heard
them described as interesting and
pleasureably exciting ilSathe extreme.
Two athletes, evenly matched, trained
to the highest reach of health, alert
ness, swiftness and force, with per-
fectly balanced and symmetrical mus
cular development, with every faculty
at it's clearest and~strongest, face each
other With quick, short, nervous.
sidewise steps, they circle around each
other on a short and tense arc, when,
sudden as flash of lightning, pass,
a miss, counter, miss-and the
coliseum roars with applause. They
say it becomes somewhat disagreeable
to sensitive souls further along. But
this is all fair. 1t is under the con-
troll of vigorous and vigorously en-
forced law, code devised by that
noble and most just legislator of tistic
Jurisprudence, the Marquis of Queens
bury. Why should this finest of ali
brutalities so fall under the displeas-
ure of the American people? Is It
that. lacking outdoor exercise, and
cultivating the brutality of tongue,
pen, eye, lips, demeanor and shrugged
shoulders, they would put down the
manlier way, because they are afraid
of it? The reason for this suspicion
will be found in the record of casual
ties on Thanksgiving day.
The record of these football cas-
ualties so far reported, including none
of the slighter injuries, foots up near
fifty cases. We say, so far as reported,
because we know of two unreported
cases, in our own suburb, of the most
serious nature. \ boy of sixteen was
pronounced by a surgeon to be mort
ally injured as he lay upon the field.
His neck had been wrenched by an
older and stronger boy, and as it was
supposed, dfslocated. He lay for many
hours unconscious under the tear
binding gaze of heartbroken mother
and father-but he recovered, though
the injury is for life. Another boy
was struck full in the face by a burly
fist, his nasal bone smashed, and his
features SCARED. This in our immed,
Tribune's record leads off with one
murder, William Blue of Brooklyn, in.
! stantly killed. Following this are
every species of injuries: broken collar
bones, arms, legs, dislocated or broll
en- hips, elbows, knees and ankles
{ eyes destroyed, both ears torn off
, carved with knives-etc. After the
l names of some of these victims, "wil
ed casualties occurred on Thanksgiv
ing day!
To place this form of brutality or
the same plane with prize fighting Is
grossly unjust. The fistic ring is hon
orable, innocent and respectable com
pared with it. The gladiators go il
on their own responsibility. They
take no unfair advantages. They Civ,
their antagonists full warning, an,
serious injuries are rare. But in tn,
foot ball prize field, where gambling
prevails on every side, and has becom,
the chief attraction of the game, i'm
mature boys and young men, the jew
els of loving and self-sacrificing faith
ers and fathers, are assaulted anC
killed or manned, in any case moral,
brutalized, and melted to gamble ant
4 even to celebrate in drunken orgies
and college professors, scholars, ladies
shout and scream themselves hoars
over exhibitions of brute force whicl
e never fail of elements of lawlessnes
and malice.
Don't be persuaded into buying lin
iments without reputation or merit
Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs III