Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-04

hout IN the middle of the third round and
told the men to work or they would not
'eeeise any remuneration for their APP
Pearance In the second round Gaines
When through the ropes to the floor nv
MS own momentum by reason OF missing
the point he had reached for. Nobody
was injured except in the first round.
"hen Gaines tunked FitZsimmons over
the eye and disturbed the usually smooth
condition of the skin at that point After
the bouts men and managers gathered at
sporting headquarters and We're in good
friendly relations
A local sport who has attended the
bouts and who usually attends all SPORT
ing events in this vicinity, including foot
pali games, was seen by the Journal Sat
urday night. The sport is a business man
on Main street. To the Journal he said:
i am sorry the gentlemen have taken
'ihs course and l believe they have been
nilsied by some person or persons I GER
tainly will never countenance ANYTHING in
this city which l believe to be an injury
TO the place or will in any wav disgrace
the young people now growing up. The
honts which have been held here this fall
l have attended. have seen manv sharp
swift exchanges of blows which might
but for the big pillows which envelop
the boxers hands. have worked injury.
fear the action of the friends of Colby
College will bring back the old feutlal
feeling which was known here years ago
and which DR.. Butler. when he was pres
Ment of the college. to a great extent
oNercame. If the faculty of Colby College
want to do away with real rough sport
let them begin with football in the COL
leges. l think the men who are behind
the Waterville Athletic Club have a good
argument in that Colby College student
who has been going about the city on
clutches eyer since the football game
with Bowdoin a week ago
While am speaking about that game
let ire review it. l was present and saw
two different men of the Bowdoin eleven
stand up after miXup and deliberately
and with bare hands strike I. Colby man
i'll the face. l also saw Colby men re-
turning the compliment, and l don't
blame them. A number of US howled
game, but this was not done. At the
bouts last night, when Mr.. Connors saw
things that We're not according to Hoyle
he went after it and stopped II then and
there. AT the football last Saturday l
saw the very men. with two exceptions
who are on this committee you have
been telling me about. standing at the
sidelines and taking in the game. l have
seen men taken out of a scrimnnase with
broken bones and twisted joints and
blackened faces. If there is q parent who
doesn't want his or her hoy to play foot
ball the faculty of the college can pre-
vent that boy playing football; and if that
parents doesn't want his or her boy to
box, the chances are good that the man.
agement of the Waterville Athletic Club
will bar him.
Yes, the sports are sore. These sports
are not all the men who box and fight,
hut men who never had on a pair of
gloves in all their lives. Men who are
behind the Watervile Athletic Club in
point of patronage are of the best and
most solid class of business men on the
street. There is a sentiment sprincing
into life again that the college professors
want to run the town. This is proba bly,
not the fact, hut in no way in which one
can put the present proposition to the
down-towner can the latter be made to
believe tn" professors are not mixing in
where they should not. The same men
no ar bee king the boxing bouts have
neN.r declined 70 chip in when the Colby
cont ibution box has been passed around
when the college athletic association
needed funds. The outcome of this local
disturbance will be- watched with interest