PRIZE-FIGHTING.

Bruce Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 5, 21 January 1909, Page 1

PRIZE-FIGHTING.

; STUAHJUT IIiTTLNG IN" THE i IT LP IT. | ' Id the course of a sermon at tho Forest Street Methodist Church, Bendilfo, the day after tho Burns-John-ston light, the Kev. IT. Worrall said: "Un Saturday for hours that ghastly. .stadium at Kushcutters Hay—a place which nestles amidst most picturesque scenery—was made* tho scone of a carnival of savagery. Two human brutes fought with ail the malice and vindictiveness of Bengal tigers. A crowd of 120,000 strong witnessed it, and there was spent sufliciont money to found and maintain a national university. money enough to send forth -Kid cultured and inspired missionaries and to maintain them a year in the empires of paganism. Yet all this moivy lias been prostituted in a country which stood so much in need of capital to develop its latent resources. Alter all the boasting, brau-gmo- -nd belting, those 20,000 raving white Australians beheld their white champion beaten by the despised black man. "Racial hatred has been set on lire, There would be racial reprisals and recriminations. They have by this deed put back the clock of history. There was not one redeeming feature in the savagery and brutality. Cod errant that the defeat of Saturday may not be the sullen and solemn prophecy that Australia is to be out-classed and finally vanquished by these dark-skinned people, who everywhere are """beginning to realise their immense possibilities." .Mr Worrall appealed for the prevention of such scenes in Australia.