The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-03
is BARRED
FROM PRIZE FIGHTS

ny LA MAHaUISE DE FoNTENOY.
THOUGH Edward VII witnessed
IN many boxing contest and his
"A son, George ". has figured in
~ numerous bouts. while the late
Alexander III. OF Russia was in his
prime as adept q boxer as his brother
in-law. King George of Greece, was
wrestler. many years have elapsed
since European royalty has ventured
to publicly attend prize fight, a fact
connection with the encounter OF JEFF
fries and Johnson at Reno to-mor-
row.
The last occasion of this Kind of
which there is any record was in
1905. when William ". while still
at dinner given by his brother, the
Prince Regent, at the pavilion at
Brighton, owing to his having been
detained at prize fight near Hove
between John Gully and the Game
Chicken, a fight fought with bare
fists and which proved an extremely
sanguinarw encounter. 1t was the
light in which John Gully won the
championship OF England. Some years
later he retired from the ring, and
having acquired fortune as a book
maker, entered Parliament. AS such
he was-wont to attend the levees OF
William w., and even to attend court
dinners, though there is nothing to
show that the eccentric old monarch
IN shaking the old prizefghter's hand
ever made any reference to the money
which he had won in betting on him
in that prize fight at Hove, more than
a quarter of a century previously. John
Gulley's grandson, William Gully. also
fntered Parliament, became Speaker of
the House of Commons. and died this
81 rIy,c~ G-et
Sir Christopher Furness's elevation
to the House of Lords last week, on
the occasion of the official celebra-
tion OF King Georges birthday. marks
the settlement of a rather unsavory
6quabble with the present Liberal adj
,ninistrati and at the same time
sheds an instructive light on the man
ner in which peerages are obtained
Sir Christopher, who is a multimillion-
tire shipbuilder and shipowner at Hull,
had until last fall always been one
of the financial mainstays of the Lib
eral party, and perhaps the largest
contributor to the party funds. his
annual subscriptions averaging $780,
poo. In return for his generosity
he receivedtta knighthood. He was
promised a.pearage in due course. but
was put off by, the government on
every occasion when there was any
distribution Of honors, on. the plea
that it did not dare to risk an cleo
ton to the House of Commons in the
constituency which he represented in
Parliament.
The Cabinet offered him baronetcy,
but he would not hear of it, and when
on the occasion Of the official celebra-
ton of King Edwards birthday last
June he again found that his name
was nor on the list of the new peers
he declined any further subscriptions
nT he wal owl. nv
declared that he was SO much dis
gusted that he had given UP all fur
51her idea of ever being raised to a
seat in the House of Lords, and con-
sequently placed upon the market all
the estates In Wiltshire which We're
to have formed the entailed property
of the peerage which he had counted
upon possessing. CThe lands in aues-
tion, which comprised no less than five
villages, formerly belonged to Lord
!Ashburton. of the house of Burton, who
has married Frances Donnelly, an
american actress and were sold by
hiH to his business associate. E. Terah
,HcoleY, the now bankrupt promoter, on
EWhose ruin they We're bought by Sir
tChristopher.0 For in Great Britain the
pesto"ai of peerage save III the
lease of victorious soldiers and of civil
fservants of the crown, is restricted to
men VINO possess certain income de-
rived from the ownership of land, the
idea being that land alone, in the
form OF entaiied estates, can furnish
ian assurance that the owners of the
fnewly-c created dignity will always
flaNe enough money 10 maintain ii In
g. hitting manner, Before however the
10000 acres in Wiltshire which Sir
Christopher had put UP for sale. came
under The hammer he was seem by
the leaders of the Liberal party, and
although he declined to stand for The
House OF Commons at the last general
election, yet he was persuaded 10 e.
sumo his subscriptions TO the Liberal
party fund and 10 withdraw the offer
for the sale OF his landed estates. Nov
he has received his reward in the
shape of the long-deferred peerage.
No such pecuniary motives. howeyer
have led the Liberal Government Ia
testow a peerage upon Sir Walter Eos
Ter who can boast of having been tht
second physician TO be made a lore
and the first medical man in Grea
Britain to become minister of tn,
crown, having held the Office OF par
1iamenlary secretary OF the local gov
eminent board and de facto Ainiste
of Public Health in the Gladstone ad
ministration OF the last decade OF III
nineteenth century In fact, it wa
nWing TO the radical measures whic
he inaugurated in 1892 and 1893 tina
lthe EPIDEMIC 4of cholera which sven
over Europe IN those two years wa
Virtually excluded from Great Bfitalr
where. In lieu of the customary tribut
of tens of thousands OF lives. only IL
cases proved fatal He has heen /
Parliament for the last qua rttsr Of
century: hrst for Chester. then for tn
University ~ London and since the
( for the county Of Derby and as chan
man OF the National Liberal Fedora
\ tion ht = rlaNed8a very active part 1
Rs9sliGhoda to whi'se there are, are few sS Rri
D mes amount almost TO j may ad