The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-15
- PUGLSM. TURF AND TARGET GOSSIP. II
SNORI.ARM BLOWS FEATURE
OF MANY RECENT FIGHTS.
Jack Dunleavy, Fighter, Believes That Right and Left Hooks and Jabs
Are Among the Most Important Blows of the Day-Conege
Men as Professionalism Talk.

ing. Of course. hut II they could be induced
to pay the same attention to boxing that
they do TO football. there is no reason why
some college-bred man should not win the
championship. College athletes hold the
majority Of worlds records In almost every
branch Of sport: why should they not be
able to equal the worlds best men In box
ing X they took the trouble to prepare
themselves for the meeting?
Popular opinion. Of course. has much to
do with their stunning the subject. Ac-
cordingly. We find the most ignorant class
OF men. not capable of making more than q
couple Of dollars a day in other calinSs,
winning purses which would be fortunes to
men who would save the money. The time
will come when people will look back with
amazement at a period when mere dread
of what other persons might say. about the
men from trying for purses Of s2o.eo0.
These same young men will go on the
Stock Exchange and cut each others imam
ciai throats by buying and selling stocks
merely gambling speculattons. This Is right
and proper in public opinion. Yet public
ring.
THE average young fellow from college
would tell You that the prize ring is TOO
disreputable to select as a profession. But
has not disreputable characters in 1t to-
day? And does the presence of a good
many persons Of this class necessarily maze
the prize ring disreputahle? Twenty years
sAS,o Az AhN
reputable. YET many highly respectable
young men and women are on the stage
to-day. Professional sport of all sorts was
considered rather a disrsputabie calling not
SO long ago as that: yet now we find many
college graduates taking up professional
baseball and thereby earning enough money
to start them on their chosen career: AM l
cannot see where they can be censurd for
so doing.
How many young collge men are hold.
ing positions as professional coaches OF
football teams to-day while they study
law? Hundreds, at least. That they can
support themselves is. l think, to their
ing would have been regarded as only suit
for some professional trainer Wfo
never hoped to rise above the position. The
fact that decent young fellows have taken
1t up has made the position responsible.
III enough young college men would take
up professional boxing they would find Big
money in it. and they would make the
the game, they would be Of the brightest
Does II not stand to reason that a WEN
young fellow. who uses his brain
in his boxing, and who is accustomed to
quick action In a football game. would
stand a irst-class chance against some ig-
norant scrapper who is merely Intelligent
in boxing alone?
such college men would have to give the
two or three years to practice that they do
TO football, but l believe that * college
boxing was the feature that college football
Is. professional prize fighting would be in
the hands Of the college man. Plenty OF
professional runners make their living by
best at the game: yet simply because 1un-
ming has been featured at colleges. every
worlds record at the field-day distances IS
held BY some college amateur. l believe the