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Show DEBUT FOB GLOVE BITS REFINED CRUELTY Forced Worry on Fighters Makes It Hard Problem; Hard on Joe Gans . . w t Boxlng"Toitay has been denatured of most of its primitive brutality. Under limited round fighting, conditions and commission govern mentvnany-or'ihc rough, unlovely featuroo "o'L-t. other days have been sandpapered to"vtfJerh' polish. ""V ! Today the most brutal ring Bbndl-I Bbndl-I Hon appear to be, not the thud of "the 1 padded fist against the enemy "beoz-I "beoz-I er." but tho '"ringside weight," Insisted Insist-ed upon In "so many championship events. Ringside weight making Is a refined cruelty that saps the vitality and morale of the boxer as much as severe punishment. Jimmy Wilde, the visiting visit-ing British champion, is Insisting that all opponents do ringside weight (116 pounds). This condition is keeping him out of a title contest with Pete Herman, the American champion, HermaiA can probably do riffgaTdoj weight, lie pounds, too, but hS rightfully right-fully refuses to submit ,tc the worry attendant on keeping under this fig-1 urc or to enter tho' ring without tho! strengthening influence of a solid! meal. j Babe Asher can fight at 114 pounds I ringside. The 110-pound figure was not the slightest difficulty for him to do for his recent bout with Wilde, yet he worried himself half sick for fear that he might possibly oyereat and: ovcrucigh, and thus forfeit the match.. I Making weight virtually killed old I Joe Gans, as he never" recovered from ; the terrific nervous and physical strain' of dqing 133 pounds for at Nelson at! Goldticlcl I |