BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 218, 8 September 1908, Page 4

BOXING.

Rums. chanipiyn..pugilist of the world, is MHUcthing of a literary man. lie who has such a "deadly left*' can "lead with the right" with the pen. are some rough shots at his philosophv: The professional pugilist leads an exalted life, for he sees stars, and is the eause of others seeing stars, which is more than some other money-grubbers do.

Pus* in gloves catches no mice, but the man in gloves can easily catch whitever is going, if lie doesn't duck quick enough. H is better to be, brave and lose claret than to drink claret and be a coward.

A black-eye in * blessing in a dark disguise. It tenches a man thai he lias an eye. lie who never runs his eye against a |i4 may go through life dreaming that his eyes are only things to sleep Willi. It nobler lo no down from a man's blow in the joize ring than to go up in a market ring by a mean blow al t he people. lie who ift afraid to box N afraid o£ his neighbour, ami he who is afraid of his neighbour has the cat's drowned ',i|tens thrown into his backyard. H is better lo bleed in strenuous com bat than to run to seed in deploring the alleged iniquities of the ag<\ A temporary knock-out for the body means a permanent knock-in for Ihe manhood.

It is better to be one plain '■ Hill" Squires than a million esquive*.