PRIZE FIGHTS.
~^MgM!AN MiNi STER > s #lEW. \>M^l^^oi^P^m^ofdl Lands] W*M« Sydney, Jtttended^^e BurnsSo^ires fightlv^sJieShadVfrSmed regu^ lations to prevent prize-fighting on ?li^ censed racecourses, and had never seena nght, he attended to get a personal experience. He said that though the ' t l wa,s not as brutal as he expected, 1 it had shown him that it was pure non- > senso to say that such a contest had ! any ennobling or elevating influence I VVnen one man got a tremendous blow, there was a tremendous yell of apI plause. If that blow had been effective, it meant that the other man had been practically disabled for the tim«» ,being, and the tremendous yells of delight that greeted this did not tend to encourage any delicacy of feeling. He saw nothing to make him reconstruct his ideas as to the Government giving any facilities at all for these exhibitions.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 29 August 1908, Page 7
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147PRIZE FIGHTS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 29 August 1908, Page 7
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