BOXING CONTESTS.
REFINED MORALITY BY LEGISLATION. (Received 5, 8.55 a.m.) Svduev. Dec. 5. The "Herald” takes' Mr. McGowan to task for his spineless reply to the deputation against boxing contests and adds that a boxing contest conducted to a knock-out *m gentlemanly lines is not a draw ; a gladiatorial spectacle is more likely to draw. (’out inning, it says: “We are not among those who try to force refined morality by legislation, but a limit is reached when Hie so-called sport bei-omes a foul ulcer of infection from which one able to pro'.ect themselves.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 296, 5 December 1911, Page 5
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