BOXING AND BRUTALITY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2631, 5 August 1908, Page 7

BOXING AND BRUTALITY.

FATHER YAUGHAN'S TRIBUTE. Tho meeting between Father Bornard Vaughan, tho I well-known London priest, and " Tommy "j Burns, the world's heavy-weight boxing champion, is described in a recent issue of tho "Dailv Mail." Burns attended tho men's club of St. Mary and, St. Michael's Church to aid tho funds of a Roman Catholic Institution by giving an exhibition bout. Father Vaughan gave tho pugilist a warm handshako before tho lattor climbed under tho ropes, and afterwards bestowed a congratulatory pat upon Burns' baro shoulders when ho had finished banging O'Keefo round tho ring for two rounds. Then tho priest and the prize-fightor stood side by side, witTi seconds' and clergy _ around them, while a photograph was being taken. Fathor Vaughan watched with keen interest every incident' of tho boxing contest, and, when the champion had departed, ho said: —"Wo havo just had a groat pleasure and . seen a famous set-to. Wo have not seen many rounds from him to-night, but it has just whetted our appetite for more. I am proud to feel that our young men havo had such an exhibition put before them. They havo had a splendid object-lesson of physical and moral discipline. As wo watchcd our champion in tho rounds wo thought he was going to put Pat O'lCeefo 'to sloop,' but ho gavo an exhibition of self-disciplino instead of one of self-glorification. "Boxing ana fencing should form an essential part of the curriculum of every boy's education," Fathor Vaughan added. ' "Boxing was not brntalising, no matter what' peoplo may say." It is also stated in England that Burns, on his way to Australia, intends to call at Romo and seek an audionco with the Popo.

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