. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Ma,ech 13,1897] ®Jj* gve&ev nab gpovtztnatu .3 . j SPECIAL DEPARTMENT EDITED AND CONDUCTED SOLELY. BT JOSEPH CAIRN SIMPSON. Inasmuch as millions of people are now cognizant of the "big event" to be decided in Carson next Wednesday, every prominent newspaper in the country devoting a large amount of space to chronicle the preparatory movements of the principals, and, other matters, major and minor, relating to the affiir, I also am inclined to have something to say. Mainly for the purpose of justifying the action of the Nevada Legislature in passin
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Ma,ech 13,1897] ®Jj* gve&ev nab gpovtztnatu .3 . j SPECIAL DEPARTMENT EDITED AND CONDUCTED SOLELY. BT JOSEPH CAIRN SIMPSON. Inasmuch as millions of people are now cognizant of the "big event" to be decided in Carson next Wednesday, every prominent newspaper in the country devoting a large amount of space to chronicle the preparatory movements of the principals, and, other matters, major and minor, relating to the affiir, I also am inclined to have something to say. Mainly for the purpose of justifying the action of the Nevada Legislature in passing the bill governing glove-boxing con- tests and its Governor who gave it his sanction and made it law. For very many years I have cherished the belief that the true way to regulate all kinds of sp3rt, at least these depart- ments of sport which many people reprehend by licensing and with conditions attached to the license which will be a safeguard, one obstacle in the way of misuse. In regard to this particular question it must appear to thinking people who can overcome former impressions, and the pressure of the multitude who are in opposition, after dae consideration, that no great harm can come from legalizing the exhibition of two men in a glove-boxing contention. Similar shows all over the country with the difference that some of them are restricted to a certain number of rounds, though in gymnasiums the contestants can box from morning till night if so inclined, Not at all surprising that the fights of former days awak- ened the most determined hostility. Even the few quota- tions elsewhere will show abhorrent brutality and the in- stances, some worse, some nearly as bad, so numerous that a volume could be filled with them. Compare the fight between Morrissey and Sullivan, in fact any of the big fights of the past, with that between Corbett and Jackson, or any of the glove contests since that kind of fighting was substituted for bare knuckled pommelling, and the differe
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