The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-07
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night Sam Berger and Al Kaufman
met, and on Thanksgiving Day Jack
OBrien and Burns will come together,
and all under their own ideas of the
fight rules as laid down by the Mar
Quis OF Queensbury.
Both fights are under the same rules
but with variations.
Abe Attel got the decision over Baker
and held onto his title of feather
weight champion Tuesday night under
the same rules. but also with varia-
tons. and it is about time that some
one called some sort of a meeting to
revise the rules altogether that were
devised by the late lamented Queens
bury.
Dear and sweet gentleman as was
the marquis, that talented and alto
gether gentleman had no idea of the
vogue that his rules at fisticuffs would
gain when he obeyed the Mosaic law
that dust would claim dust.
Yet. while the marquis plays on a
golden harp and bears a scepter. the
mundane followers of the sport which
the marquis of the flesh made famous
have and hold divers arguments as to
what the marquis set down as the reg
ulations to govern the sufficiently tena-
cious sport OF glovedom.
The marquis, a gentleman of high
culture and breeding. lived in a time
when me lord" was not above a set
to. and for the edification of the wran-
glers at Oxford and Cambridge, the
excellent marquis wasted midnight oil
as to what rules should govern con-
tests between gentlemen of England.
The marquis had neither thought
nor prediction for worriment over
what Frenchmen thought the proper
code for gentlemen who wished to set
a grudge.
He was an Englishman of the roy
STEERING times of England, when a duke
or a courtier did not think 1t below
his dignity to give another Englishman
OF equal class what we Americans of
less classic decade call a mauiing.
The marquis sweet sense of duty.
however, could not stomach the idea
OF the elect fighting under the vulgar
idea, and forthwith this gentleman Of
the purple devised rules under which
the bloods Of Oxford might dispute
on fair territory.
The marquis rules were Immediate
" hit upon as the popular idea for
lighters. and the London prize fight
rules, that prevailed before the mar
quis time and made no stipulation as
to weight, class or previous condition
OF servitude, fell into what our fat
and valiant Princetonian, Mr.. Cleve-
land, has since termed innocuous des-
uetude.
The populer stomach wished much
OF the sport devised by the MARQUIS
for the elect, and his code has lived
through various and divers periods of
prosperity and adversely. But the mar
Quis was not altogether a man given
to detail. and he overlooked some con-
ungenctes which have arisen since the
time Of the good gentleman's demise.
Modern spOrtdom has not given to
the revered gentleman all the reyer-
ence that distinction demands, and
squabbles as to what the marquis was
hitting at have been frequent sine ,
the marquis shuffled off the mortal
COIL
Now. gentlemen who have no love for
dead institutions, or none too COM
pick idea of what the marquis was in
the life, world rather have new set
Of rules adopted.
That's why a certain follower of the
game made an apt suggestion the
other night. This fellow had it that
the rules should be revised to suit
the times. That the gentleman is
right is undisputed in the area of mod
ern sport
At baseball or for that matter, ten
pins. the casual follower of the game
us reasonably certain of what NAV
happen according to Hoyle or any 9th
er druggist, but in the realms of fist
lana he is at sea.