MORALITY OF BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 8

MORALITY OF BOXING.

G. H. Monks insinuates that being a woman A. D. Hamilton knows little or nothing ah out the sport of boxing 1 .. I can readily see how men are apt to worship strength and suppleness in humans, but why crush, maim or kill their fellow creatures in order to prove their efficiency in this? I, too, admit failure in grasping the true definition of sport connected with this cave-like sparring named skilled boxing. In pagan Rome prisoners were thrown to wild, hungry animals in the arena surrounded by men who had paid to see this "sport." Then men must have seen this so-called sport as through the eyes of a woman, and it ceased to be. If spectators were promised the same treatment as the loser of the boxing contest, how many would attend! Methinks that the great majority would be found at the farther end of the earth on the night of the match. I once read an" extract from a soldier's letter: "Wo all go out after the Germans —it's great sport popping them over. We call it stalking" Being a woman, again I could not see the sport of it. If men could see the horror of these things as through the eyes of a woman much" more would be saved than the valuable space in your paper that G. H. Monks apologised for having wasted. S. AMELIA OATES.