The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-07-05
Prize Fighting

No other event that we can call mind would have been
OF sufficient Importance 20 gather 10000 men together ow on
the Nevada desert heavyweight champion pfe hight
National political conventions held in large cities. with every
convenience provided TOT many people but Is
doubtful whether either party charging $50 admission to an
open in Reno could make the numerical showing
that the prize fight did
In addition to those who had the money and the liberty
20 to Reno public interest the be gagged by the
hundreds of thousands who stood long hours before the news
paper offices throughout the United States eagerly awaiting
every word from the ngde In England Canada Australia
Africa and India wherever English the spoken tongue aud
boxing gloves known the the OF this actual
IN trivial event in a sunhaked village intense
The aesthetic may and obectors religious grounds
may but and laments have power TO alter
facts deep in hearts love the twoed man aud
his works The aesthetic viii RIGHTLY say that there in the
iunecs goras vcrging suan grave who could in prize
ring overcome half dozen Johnsons time and without
effort and there other conclusion 20 draw except that the
eoored champions triumph easily exeeed by brues
But kings died and empires passed with less note than the
establishment OF puglistie title.
Those abhor prize fighting from moral convictions
not dcbatabe ground One mans conception Of morality
is essentially his personal opinion and free contradiction
II believes morally wrong play euchEe Co dance or TO
swimming Sunday he entitled unhampered right 20
himself accordingly. and il in his enthusiasm Tor what
he thinks right he the passage OF laws prohibiting
prize fighting the laws should be obeyed 10 the letter as long
as they endure
Unprecedented observation Of yesterdays prize fight would
probably set down neither brutal immoral Two per
fecy conditioned battled with their , One beaten
down exhaustion his ewes BACKED and his face swollen The
other had slight cut one lip.
The defeated walked away from the ring unassisted
Aside from bruised face he physically well today as he
day before yesterday AZ time during the fight
either angry they okcd they gave and took blows
Hundreds OF have been carried from the football field in
much condition than Jeiircs.
Whatever animus there purely racial aud IN no
Attributable prize fighting There riots follow
ing Booker Wasngtous reception the White House and
there would be anarchy should negro be elected president
Yet there is gainsayng the fact that there is wide and
active opposition prize fighting II generally supposed
that the great fight has been fought Ii the world will
probably be the better off than the
game OF tennis had been played Men long they have
fists will strike each other anger in emulation. even
though be fortunes Offered for supreme excellence
Youths will don the boxing gloves for come for there
that the sport which win always appeal long men
look athletics There just much to excel in box
ing is be excellent running any other form OF
bodily activity.
Prize fighting il dies win be killed by its Yes
terdays fight because fight implies
anger hatred But AngoSaNon sport and down
with the AngoSaxon and have lost their relish
for the harsh Ango-Saxon
Many will regret its passing and many viii rejoice The
and the JOY will be all OF proportion to the actual
importance OF the