PRIZE FIGHTS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12584, 3 October 1908, Page 5

PRIZE FIGHTS.

Deputation to NS.W. Premier

Press Association— Telegraph — Copyright. Received October 3, 1.5 a.m. SYDNEY, October 2.

The Premier, replying to a deputation from the Churches asking him to do something to prevent prize fights, said that the law countenances boxing. It was impossible to obtain evidence that there was a prize fight till it had begun. The Government was not in sympathy with anything that degraded the community, but in endeavouring to stop occasional abuses of a legitimate practice it might be penalising a legitimate pastime. It would be unwise to introduce legislation, but the Government would 6ee that the law was not abused.

The Premier informed a member of the deputation that he did not think the Burns-Squires fight was a prize .fight.