BOXING TOURNAMENTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13498, 13 August 1907, Page 7

BOXING TOURNAMENTS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,— l >ay,e not attended any of these so-called 'harmless entertainments, and after reading the reports as appearing in the, press I hope I have a little more self-respect left than to start going now. lioweifer, we will see how it reads: — *|The., event of, the evening was rather disappointing," "only lasted for two ajnd- a-half minutes." Just so, as on reading further we realise where the disappointment came in — not enough Mood 'shed, and not enough damage done tf> enable the intellectual auflience tj) think they had got their moneys Ttorih? This must be so, as further we read that a beauty wns landed on pne ojf the , contestant's jaw, which beauty seemed^ to settle him;, much, evidently, to the|jdisappmntmens .of all concerned, who evidently would have liked it better liad he?h'ad sufficient stamina to stand a beauty on.the other jaw, and a beauty on eaxjh eye.^ to say nothing of a few mdfe ifeWtieS on other parts of his anatomy, that would have knocked him about, ,# bit, more to the edification cf the onlookers. Such is the summary .of what ought to have been, when o^tie reads between the linos of Jdie pr^ss deports, or. some of them. . So^far as 'l can learn, there were none of the fair sex there, save one, and she- was brown. Excuse the -bull, Mr Editor, as I k told tho onlgfc lady there was a Maori, and this aspect of it redounds to the cretK& of -the, womanly instinct of our New' Plymouth' women^fid, Mr Editor, if the exhibition itf-w'Bat its promoters claim for it, why^do they not set the example of taking "their wives and daughter^ wjth Jhem to witness the highly elevating and humanising show ? These fis'fL BO fel' °* c though^! 3 ,* nat passed^ttirough my mind on seeing the roport in one. oi our papers, and I now pass. them ( on to jtoujif you think they' ere worthbptfper-foom/ .welT and- good ; if not m o Barm done.— l am, etc., *