Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-03
BOXING.
BY CHARLEY WHITE.
Pugilistic Referee.

| The boxing outlook for the coming
year is one of promising conditions. The
| sport of self-defense is on its way to
higher plane and is being recognized by
all the leading men in official. profes'
sional and commercial life as a very
| beneficial sport where the brutality OF
II game is elm mated. The most eini
| rent physicians of this and all English
speaking countries advocate their pa
tients taking a mild form of exercise.
including light glove boxing, which is a
sure sign that 1t is health restorcr.
The tact that the question is being ad-
vOcated III the public schools also shows
that the authC rites who have under
their jurisdiction the welfare of taou-
sands of young health-loving Ame leans
appreciate the beretits of boxing. Then.
TOO, the fact that several larger IRE
paratory schools and colleges, including
Harvard, Yale Princeton, Pennsylvania
and Columbia are also advocating boxing
as a form of amusement as we'll as for
Meath results proves to me that the art
OF self-defense. if it is placed in The
ers of the sport. will result in benefits
IN many ways to everybody come Led
with the sport.
| one of the strong points about the
game is that a man in robust health Will
| always refu,e t. take advantage -
mali who is of l'iferior physique. vii N
shows that il is a game in which Jrdg-
Lent as well as human nature plays a
strong part
he incoming year promises to the Nv
ers of the some plenty of excitement
| and interest the main feature being .fie
| match for the championship between the
two great-ahd l may say, the biggest
| ;nen in the ring today, namely. Je1ries
md Johnson. T! is will be one OF Inc
| most spectacular ring contests and Will
add greatly 20 the fame of both OF tie
rnen and also to the pugilistic game anu
the conditions Which surround IT, we
| ST. ON of that KING decided in our time.
winch will go Gown in ring history IS
wcncerful bai'le, in my prediction.
If I am at liberty to say few things
pertaining to the boxing game ! wish 10
voice right here my views in few short
sentences. l have been a lover or sood
manly boxing when conducted by honest
and efficient officials. My business proves
to me that the boxing game must be con-
Quoted upon the same lines as business
house or a railroad corporation or court
Of law, namely, 1t must be strictly con-
Quoted on its merits. All details connected
with it should be in the hands of those
who are alive to situations where bad
management is liable to creep In and
create false Impressions. as bad manage
ment does in all other lines, causing dis
aster and failure.
One of the remedies which / would like
to see adopted would be that the boxing
situation in any city. town, or state, where
1t Is allowable or legaiZed, should be UNI
der the jurisdiction of the city officials.
who would and should be held responsible
for the we'll conducting of the sport.
Should INSCRIPTIONS persons attempt to
control the sport it would be the duty
Of the city authorities to see that they
were eliminated. 1t should also be the
duty of the daily papers and the patrons
of the sport TO hold the management of
the different boxing associations strictly
responsible.
They should demand that the takers be
thrown out without mercy One of the
chief features Of the game is that there
are too many interested in It, who are
not working for the scientific and the
health benefits and the pure love of It,
They are In 1t for purely mercenary rea-
sons, and they are the dangerous fac
tors to contend with. If boxing were
properly conducted by the honest lovers
of the game in the interest of the sport
itself, those who are in 1t for money
alone should have no voice in the con-
duct of boxing. whether 1t be at clubs or
anywhere else.