Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-10
LACKS
 ESSENCE 0F SPORT.
LOW AND soRDlD, IT HAS ITS EVE OUT FOR THE MONEY ALWAYS.
tNew Orleans Picayune.)


 There is not the first element O. true sport about the Americanizcd bull fight. and if yesterdays heavy weight championship is the last in this country. as many believe and as seems probable. it is because of that fact. No white man ought to feel a reflection on his racial pride because negro has become pre-eminent in the 'art" Of outlasting a rival in a grueling punching match. for that isn't proved A physically broken man. softened by good living. has succumbed to a younger man whose dissipatons are fast leading him to the brink of oblivion over which al most every other pugilist has plung- ed, penniless and almost friendless. He hasn't arrived yet; that's all.
 They sometimes talk as if it were an evidence of manhood. of good red blood" to display an interest in the unmanly art, as it has come to be. Heaven save the mark It Is the anemic. sodden, phlegmatic class that displays the keenest interest in af- fairs fistic; that devours the dope" and talks it until the rest of human ity becomes interested in the con tests as curiosities of the age. There is a lot of the brute in all of us, and nearly all confess to an interest in prize fights when publicity has arous- ed it in spite of our better aspira- tions. The difference is that some are ashamed of it down in their hearts.
 True sport is essentially unsordid and is fair and above board Pugil- ism is so far from that. has sunk so low merely as a business, that its own devotes separate into two gene ral camps-those who believe the thing is on the level. and those who don't: and until the last blow Is struck in a prize contest one never knows whether the thing was mapped out to the smallest details by the promoters and fighters. The gate re- ceipts are the first and last consid- eration. There will be general agree ment that the fight would never have taken place but for the rich prizes; indeed. the business man. agers of the fight made it mighty certain before signing the papers that, win or lose. each man would net a fortune.
 For a sport" whose business man. agement is the most important part what can the apologist say that Is convincing? His sole argument Is the epfthet that those who demand the oblIteration of the whole dis gusting business are long hairs," without any good red blood"
 If there is any parallel fin history that should set a people thinking it Is that between the Romans who gathered in the ampatheaters to see lions tear Christian martyrs apart and the American love for a diver sion epitcmized in the single sen tence from the description of the Reno fight: Blood gushed from Jef- fries mouth in a stream" The one sport" marked the rapid decadence of Rome to an early doom. Does the other mean that the real man. hood of America is running to a low ebb?
 The old Spartans were of a differ ent epoch. They were eager for the fray. If they were not noted for high thinking they were at least plain liv- CTS and good individual fighters. That's a different thing. That de- notes virility. But a love of the populace for Pullman trains and all the ''fixings" to see two modern glad iators fight, perchance to the death of one-as has not infrequently hap pened-that's a condition that makes the analogy of later Rome and mod ern America not far fetched.
 It is said that sin is having its last whirl in Nevada Open gamb- ling has been given until September 30 next to quit There are signs of a reaction against the shameless bid ding for divorces. The legislature has promised to pass a law al its next session outlawing finish fights.
 They all ought to go together. They are of piece-sordid. general ly crooked and altogether debasing.