Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-27
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street in New York city. unless 1t was Coney Island.
 The public got sore, of course; who wouldn't? And the crooks pulled just few more such things as that around the country, and the job was done. Boxing was deader than any doorknob and it looks as if 1t might stay so some time yet.
 Don't let anyone hand you that old brutality gag. It was crookedness and bunco that did it. There's nothing brutal in good boxing match.
 The men with red blood want to see 1t, and like to see 1t, and 1t gives them healthy desire to go and do some muscle building on their own account. and maybe I'm going to shock a few thin skinned folks right here, but I'll stand for that; women like to see trials of strength, too, and they would patronize 1t if it wasn't considered too coarse for their delicate minds.
 As far as know the average woman of normal tendencies has a high re- gard for strength in the male animal; whether it's mental strength, bodily strength or moral strength, and from all down historys pages. women have witnessed such exhibitions as have been held in public. Am l wrong, ladies? I don't think so.
 A man might go back to the grand old game of fox hunting, and everyone would agree that it was great game "a little tough on the f1x, but sos the abattoir tough on the hog; and then you put the fox hunting business on a crooked commercial basis and see how long 1t would last. Just see how hard it is to this day to keep amateur sport clean. Every now and then there's howl that something's wrong about it, but it is kept pretty clean. You let the professional lads get to running a good clean sport for what there's in it, and see where that sport lands; down in the gutter, where they've put pugilism to-day, and through no fault of the game nor the men doing it. It's the crooks every time.
 It's just as dishonest to play crooked games with sport as 1t is to pick pock- cts, and the pickpockets got to worh in good many states, and finally worked themselves out of good easy thing. I guess it's the old story of the golden goose, for I see a whole lot of them at work nowadays where they ought to have been years ago. If some of these good rerormers would just look at the cold, clear facts in the case and try to understand the aver age human temperament, there would be less talk about the brutality of prize fighting.
 Some of these peopie howl that it's only done for the money that's in it. We'll, maybe so, but I want to ask those folks just how many baseball games, how many football games, how many horse races there would be if was free for all, and I'd also like to find out just how many of the reform CTS would go on reforming if there wasn't something in 1t for them. It's a fair question. and if anyone has a fair answer, Id like to hear it. I'm willing to listen to reason, and claim to know something about the fighting business, and all brands of it. ought to, I've got trimmed enough from tn, . crooked kind. I'd also like to know from some of those high and might. gentlemen who managed to put 1 crimp into the boxing business, if it'i any worse to smash mans nose ol
 black his eye than it is to put an ever lasting dent in his soul, or make hi.
 moral nature twist up into several diff ferent kinds of knots.