The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-17
BRUTALITY. IN ALL
CLASSES OF SPORT
English Writer Has Dream
Giving Cause For


III the uISI a W.tSoe "A
the London Mail offers the following
testimony concerning the brutality at
I:ached to the old haymaker which
bumps against the Jaw: ~
The writer. will new forget the
penultimate round in the ten-round
affair which he lost on the other side
of the Atlantic through ducking care
lessly into an uppercut. 1t was g
species Of DREAM. everything IN n
about the ring seemed phantasmal
and shadowy: the cries Of the specta-
tors. rejoicing in a sequence of swift
sxchange s, seemed to come from very
tar ,away-a weird. other-worldy
ululation that really did not matter
at all. The call Of time was a Joy in
itself; to sit on a chair and be sponged
Inc famed was the sum of all posi-
BILE and impossible luxurIes.
The way out vas opened silently.
tnvisibly in the next bout; after the
knock out 1t was an awakening in a
The winner came over and shook
hands affectionately: the loser felt
that he had never known a man SO
we'll in his life. had never liked a man
so much. AS for two CIR three bruises
and a cut lip-what did it matter?
But they mattered a good deal; they
were honorable marks. mementoes of
IN occasion when n had proved that
4 good physique Is worth working for,
that there is q moral factor in no such
thing as q miserable physical cour-
age. that there is body unless one
misuses it,"
In Baseball.
You have here the brutality view
point from the fighters outlook. How
about baseball?
Well. as u leading example, there Is
the late world series in array. Mathew
son is pitching against the Athletics.
hardest hitting ball club shut out 10
In the ninth: $4,000 Giant supporters
In the stadium of steel are poised for
the Jubilee Of cheering just beyond.
Two more to die and Matty has come
through with the greatest pitching
feat of the year. with another world
series almost won And then comes
the Maryland Mauler-The Human
Batting Eye. Bing-into the stands
Good night. p
What followed was "a species of
dream-phantasmal and shadowy,"
for Matty and some $4,000 others.
The weird, other worldly ululation'
was there, but in the awakening there
was no tinge of "luxury"-no waiting
land of peace and pleasant fatigue
mo shaking of affectionate hands"
Maryland $4,000 others-may have
felt that "he had never liked a man
so much. but the feeling was not x
pressed or given ven to with any UNI
seemly display Of boisterousness.
And so far as the general brutal
ity" or "pang" or shock was con-
cerned. we submit h effect of Bakers
wallop against any haymaKer that ever
denied a .iawbone OF rocked a head
p{no1 n ~oi.,yt M ox11ofosu csofnn erhnro
isn't even a comparison to be made.
Many Of those who filed from the ball
yard that hay October afternoon
would have been willing to absorb a
dozen fistic lknockouts for the ex-
quisite pleasure of forgetting that
Baker ever came to bat.
Brutality in Bulk.
The brutality of baseball is not to
be estimated. Think of watching the
st. Louis Browns play out a season
Of what the urnpire m In for
Of what will happen to Hank o'Day
about he seventh of June
OF how some 10000 fanatics feel
when the ump decides that n home
athlete has beer tagged upon the cut:-
Gle of his left ear fourteen inches from
the plate with the tying run In
sight
OF how the pitcher feels when Ty
COOD comes to Dat
"Phantasmal and shadowy." these
occasions may be. but there is still
no awakening "in any land of peace
and pleasant fatigue" The fatigue
is there, but little peace and nothing
of pleasantness-to the other guy.
The Brutality of Golf.
Passing on from baseball the situa-
ton might as well vcer around to golf.
Golf brutal? Ask any beginner who
for hour after hour whaled away with
a driver or a masnie in a vain attempt
to push the white pill in some direc-
ton away from q stretch of fringine
woods, 4 yawning pit Or a frowning
bunker
Ask any veteran who. with victory
in sight. balls up a 20-inch putt for
Watch some otherwise calm and un.
ruffled soul mauling away in a deep
~pit-guarded bunker. and take a look
at his fighting face" and bend al ear
to his conversation after the seventh
unsuccessful shot to get out. Hang
around when some golfer has suddenly
developed a Slice or a wicked
hook" which has gone beyond his
control.
Ask Chic Evans about the six.
teenth green at Brooklin in 1910,
where he had w. c. Fownes. Jr.. "2
down and 3 to play"-and where
Fownes holed a 20.foot putt and
Evans missed from -four feet-losine
the national championship. A smash
from a steel-studded mace above the
right eve would have been a 1--we IA n