The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
THE HERO WoRSHIPERs

4nh HEKO WORSHIPERS
Walking along Kearny street the other dav saw
some 500 people gathered on the sidewalk apparently
gaping and staring nothing in particular. asked
the policeman on the corner what was the cause Of
the excitement
The negro prize fighter is inside with his white
WIFE, he replied; and he added That's it." with
evident disgust. These idle people staring at
blank wall represented the primitive man engaged
IN patient hero worship. IF Roosevelt and Teffries
should come to town on the same day [ fear the
colonel would be neglected In competition for
popular worship of this sort Taft-would be nowhere
AS TO MORAL AVERAGES
II a community characterized by the high moral
average OF Berkeley behaves in the way the local
editor describes about minor prize fight let US be
slow about throwing stones at San Francisco Lord
Rosebery-not Queensberry-once premier of Eng
land, IS coming land and sea with select party
of British aristocrats to see Jeffries and Johnson
fight and their interest is not purely chronological
1t seems if the contemporary vociferation to the
accompaniment of sets OF resolutions were chiefly
a phase of the ancient and irreconcilab1e conflict
between the Molycoddles and the Redbloods.
A TULARE SERMON
found in the Visalia Times some time ago
this:
Now what do you know about this? When the
advertising scheme made bid for the Johnson
Jefries fight, great howl up from Dinuba
Such thing should not be countenanced said
the good people of that community, super
should withdraw their $1,000 donation
Naturally led to the belief that the science
of fisticuhs by held in high favor
in the Alta town. On top of this comes the report
o prize fight held in Dinuba last week of
few such affairs held in the county and the
FIRST regularly advertised bout in many years.
Which reminds that the Dinuba protestors
should look through their bibles where they would
find reference TO notes eyes which would
be strictly applicable to their
1 select these picturesque headlines from another
paper of interior California:
KETcHEL MAgLs THE SAUSAGE OUT OF
POOR "PoRKY"- FLYNN
THE TASTE FOR BLOOD
Prize fights do not interest me- It has been my
fortune tosattend only in the course of my expe-
rence. and although it was good fight as such
things go, it struck me as neither interesting nor
exciting; but the study of human nature in the raw
is always interesting if disgusting at times
The blood hunger of the gallery at that fight was
merely revolving. They gloated and shouted over
every squirt of blood. They wanted it in buckets
never again want to see humanity SO degraded and
so brutalized 1t was the raw savage cruel and
bloodthirsty.
Well, they come that way in large lots. Quoting
the Berkeley Gazette again:
When Governor Gillett arrived in Washington
D. c. he asked by interested statesman:
gusted and said 'I know nothing about the fight.
am interested in the fair" THE far?" said the
Washington statesman, what is that?" This story
has the ring of truth. It shows that some people,
and we are afraid in the majority, think
more of brutal contests between puguglies than
they do of great public enterprises.
SOME UNEXPLAINED PSYCHOLOGY
The lust for raw blood does not explain the whole
psychology of the phenomena | have repeatedly
seen some fifteen thousand people gather at news
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