NOT CONVINCED.
DOES PRIZE-FIGHTING ELEVATE THE MIND? (Ny lELiqEArH—press association—comianT,) • Melbourne, August 27, Tho Stato Minister for Lands, while in Sydney, attended tho Burns-Squires fight, /Ys he had framed regulations to prevent prize-fighting and licensed racecourses, and had never seen a fight, he attended in order to get personal experience, He has stated that, though tha fight was not pa brutal as ho hftd expected it to he, it had shown him that it wag pure nonsense to say that such a contest had any epnohling pf elevating influence, IjVhen one man got in a tremendous b|pw there was a tremendous yell of applause, If that blow had been effective it meant thftt the other man would have been practically' disabled for the time heing, an' 4 the tremendous yells of delight that greeted this did not tend to enopUT* age any delicacy of .feeling,
Ha saw nothing to make him reoonstruot Ilia ideas as to the Government giving any {aijiHtie? at all for these exhibitions,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 5
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166NOT CONVINCED. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 5
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