El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-01-11

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Of New York. has a lot Of inter
~ esting things to say about box
ing, and its influence on human nature.
He say the restoration Of boxing in
New York has done a lot OF good and
no harm. The great majority Of New
Workers are in favor Of permitting
boxing, and those who oppose IL do
not know the conditions IN the crowded
section Of the city. The number OF
shooting and stabbing affairs in the
tenement district have been markedly
decreased since boxing has been al
lowed. Before boxing came back there
were a lot Of DULLES terrorizing whole
neighborhOOds who managed TO get
away with the bluff They carried
guns in their hip pockets and knives
up their sleeves and simply ran things
to suit themselves. because decent men
did not want to figure in a shooting
affair. This order Of things is chang
ing every day, according to O'Neil, now
that boxing has come back The young
bully who starts in to terrOrize a
neighborhOOd has to show something
before he is acknowledged a leader.
Instead Of making a. rep" by hitting a
man over the head with a black jack,
he has TO put on the gloves and stand
up against somebody in order to make
good, and the street rOWdy and bully
never makes a good boxer, as the yell
loW streak shows up too plain in a. box
ing bout. It takes brains TO box, and
e bully generally is lacking in gray
matter.
Allowing boxing under fair rules is
the best proved antidOte for the gang
trouble, O'Neil has found, and he goes
on to say that one Of the best reasons
for legalizing boxing is in the changed
immigration conditions A larger and
larger proportion Of people from the
south OF Europe are constantly coming
here, these inherit the instinct to use
q knife or gun when ever they get into
trouble. Now the good old fashioned
custom Of teaching them to use their
fists with skill is a far step toward
making them good citizens and gives
them something to do beside stabbing
and shooting.
Commissioner O'NeiI has always been
an enthusiast on boxing He is a grad
uate Of Columbia university, and was
captain OF the Blue and White baseball
team in 1903. He looks at the whole
matter from a very broad point Of view,
and his work has been so successful
that many who opposed allowing the
return OF boxing have come around to
favor it since he has been commissioner. /
In a drawer in his desk he keeps on
file the letters Of protest against box
ing that he has received since becoming /
commissioner. Some of them are writ
ten as though the writers thought he
was so wicked that he cooked a couple I
Of children for breakfast every morn /
ing, and that everything and every
person connected with boxing was hope /
lessly wrong. One of the letters be- I
gins. "A man who would strike an
other IS dangerously imperiling his I
soul" And yet" says the commits
s5Oner, an average Of 90 men g night /
have been matched for regular bouts I
IN New York city and no one has SUI
fered a serious injury yet, while there I
wasn't a Saturday all fall that some I
one playing football was badly injured. I
Yet these same people who cry for the /
abolition Of boxing go to football games /
and root with the loudest
Besides the new Brooklyn baseball I
park. two other massive stadiums are 1
to be open to Gotham fans this year. /
The Giants win have new park that {
is going to cost 1000, 600, and the 4
HfEhIander's under WOIvertOn, viii do I
their base stealing in a new S85O.o00 !
park These, with the Brooklyn park, 7
viii represent 81, 500 600 and viii have /
a seating capacity for 10000 people. I
New York is sure going some
The statistics are cut about the I
Giants playing in Cuba Their games, 7
u in all drew 56,3O3 people and the /
receipts for the y games were S2s'4Sl-
..Cbief' Charles Alfred Bender. the /
crack Athletic baseball pitcher whose
wiring was such a power in getting
he pennant for the Athletics, heads the
ist Of the % most famous indians en-
raeed in showing their athletic Prov
50 Meyers Of the Giants is mentioned
Isl q fame eafner. Thorpe, the indian
football player. and Tom Longboat
he Canadian indian long distance run
Ter. who sprang into international
roninence BY winning the worlds Mar
.thon some years ago.
The future of the much talked Of
hree- fingered pitcher. Mordecai Brown,
# the Cubs is the subject of much
-ossfD ia the sporting world. A short
inc ago it was positively stated that
3Fovn was done with baseball for good
nd all and was going into business.