THE FIGHTING ROOM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 4 October 1911, Page 8

THE FIGHTING ROOM.

WHITE V. BLACK. The decision of the British Government to prohibit the proposed light 'between the black champion and a European, ridiculously miscalled “the white hope,” is one that ought to lie acted upon under similar conditions here (says the Sydney “Daily Telegraph”). With boxing ns a sport we lo not now propose to deal. In its place it is not only um.l jectinnahle, hut commendable. The matching in .vhat are actual prise lights of black non with white men lor the purposes of gate money is, however, a different matter altogether. 'I hose lights can do no good to anyone, and in view of the positive evils associated with them there is no reason why fm the gratification of the morbid instincts that could enable anyone to find pleasure in witnessing a white n an standing up to have bis face battored by a negro, nr vice versa, for a prearranged division of the gate money, they should bo tolerated. As educational shows they are worse than worthless, while their appeal lo low racial passion is more pernic'o is men in its way than the stirring up cl the ordiu-

ary brute clement iu the community, as is the usual rcstilr ol contests in which the people who pay to keep them going demand to see the sport of boxing carried beyond legitimate limits. The whole thing is a matter of money greed, by which a few make fat profits at the expense ot tho community that these exhibitions tend to demoralise. r f (he State Covornment rises to tho occasion therefore, it will insist mi th ; sport of boxing being confined withi.i the true limits of sport.