Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-11-14
BOXER IS SORRY
TO HURT RIVAL
Fighting is Business, Not
Hatred With Men in the
Ring Game.

X.aSan FRANCISCO, Call, Nov. H.
Most people think" said the worlds
boxing is the most brutal Of pastimes
g that the contestants take great
aeHght in tho gore than they spill"
HH0r g moment James Coffroth, for he
WHs the speaker. paused and looked
out OF he window Of his sumptuous
8onlce.
"Let me tell you q thing that may
surprise you." he continued. when
Two fighters step into the ring it. is
the other! Each il very story for
the bodily punishment he innicts and
when the battle ID over the first
thought of the victor Ia Of the wounds
q the vanquished.@ IL you have ever
attended a contest you will know that
his is true by fact that the winner is
Always the man to give the irst kind
word to the loser. He shakes him by
the hand or pats him on; the back and
says You made q game flght, old boy;
are you hurt!'
"Of course there have been excep-
lions to this rule. Some ring bouts
have been srudge battles, but for
every malicious glove fight there have
Deen twenty or even more that were
ness.
v. There Is glory In supremacy in the
ring. though. Just a. there IL glory
"a supremacy in every other walk of
ME-. But there are many games more
brutal than the good old Anglo-Saxon
sport OF boxing.
The American game Of college foot
ball probably holds the palm for bru-
t1Aty. / can remember we'll whom ]
played 1t, that we frequently walked
onto tho held with the deliberate in
tentton Of breaking some clever mans
arm, les, nose Dr. head Just for the
purpose Of getting him out Of the
fame. And then there is the brutal
ssty OF the race track, where the jock
eys will try to shoulder the leader of
his horse Just to prevent him from
winning a c And there is only one
chance in ton that the luckless rider
wont be trampled to death by the feet
OF tho onr,lshinE horses. Compared
to this is boxing brutal?
"Of tho few fights that have been
for blood perhaps the battle in 1908
between Abe Atell and Owen Moran
was m OF tho bitterest. In a bat
tic in New York Moran had beaten
Ahe's brother. Monte, thereby win
ming from him all his money. jeweiry,
reputation as q scrapper and all.
There were many hard things said
about the bout and Abe took It up,
saying that II he ever got Moran into
the ring with him he would chop him
to pieces. The animosity wa so ran
corous that friends kept tho two men
apart on the streets for fear that II
they met there would be bloodshed.
land the strange part Of 1t was that
the very bitterness Of the struggle
when the men yer finally brought to-
gether made the fight almost q farce,
for when they stepped into the ring
each had such q Wholesome respect
for each Others ability that instead Of
tearing at each other wildly they
that one or the other would land a
knockout punch. The result of the
bout was a tame contest that resulted
in g. draw.
"But in my 1a years experience in
the fight game during which I have
staged 200 battles I have found that
the grudge tight is very unusual. Box
. ing is q business with fighters Just az
It IL with the promoter-the business
Of furnishing clean sport to the pub
lie" o..