The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-09
No MORE PRIZE FIGHTS
BILLY MADDEN GIVES EXPERT
TESTIMONY AT CINCINNATI IN
JUNCTION HEARING
ONLY BOXING CONTESTS NOW
John L.. Sullivan. Says Witness Mad
den, Was the East of the Glad
iatOrs-Lawyers Will
Talk Today.

CINCINNATI Feb. S.-With the excep-
don of w. A. Brady. who did not arrive
from New York until tonight, all wit
nesses have been heard on the applica-
lion for an injunction against the JEFF
frieS-Ruhlin contest here next Friday
night. Counsel for the Saengerfest Ath-
letic club are not sure tonight that Brady
will be called. In any event counsel on
both sides have agreed to limit their ar
guments so that the case will be closed
tomorrow night. Judge HOLSTER is not
expected to reserve his decision longer
than next Monday.
Even if an injunction Is issued against
a prize tight, so-called, it is stated that
the promoters will claim the right to
pull off 4 boxing contest here next Fri
day night, and keep within the bounds
of a Sparring math. in both the ten-round
bouts between Childs and Martin and
the twenty-round contest between JEFF
fries and Rubin. The defendants deny
the jurisdiction Of the court to restrain
such a boxing contest as is allowed under
the Ohio statutes, and they insist that
they do not intend that there shall be a
violation of the law at any stage Of the
contest. The defendants, on these
GROUNDS, expect to appeal the case to a
higher court if Judge HOLSTER grants the
injunction, and they feel confident that
with absolute assurances of a boxing
contest only, as described in the permit
of the mayor, and not prize fight, that
they will be able to carry out their pro-
gramme.
CONTEST OF SKILL.
The star witness today was Billy Mad
den who was on the stand most of the
forenoon and all of the afternoon. His
account of the manly art was most skill
full. lie insisted that it was in the in
terest of health, as well as of skill. He
referred to the skill of the eye in watch
ing opponents of the arm in administer
ing hits and in defense, and of the limbs
and feet in side-stepping. and all other
motions. He said their training was sim
ply an exercise for the perfection of
health so that they would be in such
condition as to be immune from injury.
He testified that the science of boxing
required more practice and time than
to acquire any of the trades or profess
si0ns.
THEY ARE ALL BOXERS.
Madden insisted that there had been
no prize fighting by champions in recent
years. and that Jeffries, Ruhlin Childs
and Martin belong TO a later school Of
scientific boxers, and that none of them
had ever engaged i'll a prize fight. When
questioned closely as to when prize fights
were superseded by scientific boxing con-
aests, he insisted that there had been no
prize fights since the retirement Of John
j.. Sullivan. He considered Corbett a
scientific boxer who had never engaged
in a prize light, and when Sullivan met
COrbett at New Orleans he lost out in a
boxing contest. But Madden insisted that
as a prize fighter John L. Sullivan was
still the champion Of the world, and he
reviewed the prize fights in Mississippi
between Sullivan and Kilraln for sew
enty-five rounds, without limit as to the
time of the rounds or anything else, and
compared that event with the boxing
contests that have taken place since Cor
bett was champion. Madden said that
the rules were being changed more and
more In the interest of science and
against sluSglngi so that there is much
Improvement now over the rules CT the
past two or three years. As the main
Issue before\%he court is on the question
whether the event CT next Friday night
is to be a boxing contest or prize fight,
Madden was considered ar exceptionally
good witness for the defendants.