Arizona republican., 1910-04-20
Prize Fight Publicity.

Sir-As one of vour subscribers
 feel that l have d right to protest against the daily advertisement or the first page of the paper of whit, brute who is preparing for d fist fight with negro tough. It is ar insult to every decent reader that you have. If you think that a ma iority of your readers take any in- terest in such a disreputabe affair you must have very low idea of their refinement l hope you will not persist in advertising what is held as crime in almost every state in the Union. Yours truly.
 R. c. DRYER
 32o5 West Jefferson Street, Phoe-
 nix. April IS. 1910
 We are in full sympathy with the sentiments of the subscriber and have frequently animadverted against the popular interest in this form of sport. which. as the subscriber says. has been made a crime by the laws of many states.
 It affords The Republican no pleas ure to chronicle the daily movements of this white brute" and this negro tough" nor does this paper derive any qualification from printing stories of brutal murders and other crimes which the news agencies believe wor- ,hv of mention
 IL IS subject of regret that there is not such an overwhelming majority of newspaper readers of the same mind as the subscriber. so that the minority might be regarded as a neg ligible quantity.
 But newspapers find themselves compelled to supply a demand. About four years ago the management of the Associated Press entertained view of prize-fight news similar to that of the subscriber. and announced that henceforth less attention would events The practice of reporting fights by rounds was to he ahan- doned entirely As concession to those who were interested in such things. the Associated Press would publish the results and main features of such contests This announcement of the new policy was well received by right thinking publishers. to whom the generally ill-written reports of fights had never appealed Now and then the story of d fight was told in an interesting manner and was read able For instance. the description of the Corbet,- Mitchell fight was almost Homeric, as was the story of the Corbett- -Fitzsimmons battle.
 But the Associated Press soon learned that it's suppression of the disgusting details of prize-fiGhts | would not suppress the unhealthy ln- i terest in them: that majority of the newspaper readers of the coun- ] try wanted to know about the left | hook the right to the jaw and all | the sickening minutiac of the en- | counter IT the Associated Press could not supply this information. the spe Cial services of the yellow journals would do SD. In the end. the most powerful of news agencies found itself compelled to meet the competition.
 It Is not creditable to human na- turc that it feels an absorbing inter- es, in the affairs of such men as Jeff fries and Johnson. They arc only d little more muscular than their fol- Iowmen and far less muscular than the average tsboon. which could whip either. with one hand tied behind h" Yet inconsistent human nature feels little interest in the haboon, whose strength and agility arc so much gr,atcr than those qualities of the average prize fighter, while iis Intel lisence Is so slightly less