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Show Y7 ABOLISH PRIZE FIGHTS. After mature deliberation, careful consideration, lengthy cogitation, nnd almost prayerful meditation, tho horse editor, who also attends to tho other branches of sport, has arrived at tho conclusion that Salt Lako might about as well cut out pugilism. Wo havo had fiascos enough. There doesn't seem to bo any one hero with grit and ginger enough to manngo an nffalr, outside thoso who do not want to take a hand, nnd the manner in which things have been running of lato is about enough to disgust any lover of squnro sport with tho whole business. Wo feel llko joining forces with tho ministers and slopping tho whole thing for good nnd all. First wo have George Oardnor and Schrcck. Thoy go nearly twenty rounds and then tho Dutchman lands on tho Irishman's jaw nnd tho latter goes down nnd out. Tho crowd cheers and everybody goes homo happy bo- causo each thinks ho has seen a fight. Schrcck Immediately challenges Fit?. Simmons. Fltz comes hero with his lion; mnkes a show on tho streets, and in tho dally papers, and starts training. In tho meantime tho windows aro full of cards, tho papers aro full of "dopo" announcing a battlo between O'Kocfo and Jimmy Gardner. Wo got tho record of first ono and then tho other wo loam that O'Kcofo can reach an inch and three-fourths further than Gardnor, and that Gardner has a loft hook that is a poacherlno, while O'Keefo's cockscrow blow Is an improvement im-provement on all corkscrew blows, while Gardiner has perfected a now upper cut to tho Jaw and so forth, ano so forth, and so forth. Tho fight takes placo. For twenty rounds It is hit nnd miss. No ono gets MjH hurt; thero isn't a knock down; thoro -JH is nothing sensatlonnl In tho mill at jH all; and It doesn't oven look llko n ' ;lB2l fight, and tho accommodating roforoo 'Mil' declares it a draw. Tho crowd good B K naturedly consents to tako It easy and Wt l goes homo, thinking perhaps It has ' W i soon a light. Tho sporting editors ' Jf ; next morning present wordy diagrams ES 1 of how Gardner "sent a punch nt Uh j O'Kcofo, which tho latter blocked, and 1 HK j how O'Keefo's loft lend for tho head was countered by Jimmy nnd followed iff! up with a right smash to tho Jaw, !Ul which foil short," and so forth, and so ' H forth, and so forth. , H f Thou old Hob "gets up on 'Is 'Ind j M legs and 'owls becauso tho blooming ij vftt I Dutchman, hand 'is managor, 'Ogan, i! fgA j 'aven't put up tho dough for 'Is mntcn J K with Mm, goes 'round tho hloomlnk ':JR town hand 'oilers to first ono man iiSt hand then tho bother, calls tho blawst- cd, hloomlnk, blccdln' gow hoff nnd I 2 'ikes for tho lionet." Just us soon as B ho gets out of town Schreck's manngor j R gives It out cold that ho will follow j !j Fltzslmmons whercovor ho goes, when k" ho hnd thrco hours to chaso him up IB) and know his nddrcss, nftor Fit 7, had H I said ho would fight tho Dutchman In i,H j an nlloy for fun. Both sides waste i'B columns of rot' in tho dallies. Managor l''B Ucnn suggests Fitz wants to sco his l!B ' wife, and thnt Is tho reason ho went -iWi', away. Managor Ilogan nsserts Fltz is ''Jwlr side-slopping. Fitz declares "'Ogan ilKR' hand Schrcck to bo a blecdlnlc pair ,Ri hof duffers hnnd hoffcrs to scrap hln tim ,(' ha back room, bin tho halloy hor hln JIBS' tho street for nothing." Dig bluffs are ,.IW Indulged In nbout taking down forfeit iB I monoy, when thoro novcr was enough H J put up to buy a meal ticket. JM . Now wouldn't that mnko you tired? Vm' Of courso it would. Thnt Is why wo . Bv. think perhaps It will bo a good thing MWLt to stand In with tho ministers nnn ,Ml stop tho wholo business. It is easily 'Bp' dono. An application for an injuno Ml tlon, nnd thoro you havo it. Tho !Wj statutes aro specific enough to anBwor h'Ml' all purposes. Eelthcr judgo sitting iiiHs would issuo tho writ, and that it would 118 $ bo sustained is certain. It would clear 4 Ml k tho atmosphoro and rid tho town of JR t a hum lot of meal-ticket pugilists who K couldn't fight a cow If thoy wanted to. p f No ono would kick, except a certain .jgjf ti few who make a few dollars out of I tho public. Tho rest of us would bo M j, perfectly satisfied, becauso wo aro dls- if V gusted with tho wholo business. No jjtf 1 man, after reading tho tommyrot in- 11 dulged In by Schrcck and his manager Mil and tho long follow, Fitz, could sar mm ho had as good a digestive apparatus flgjjl as before. It Is sickening. If tho ffll wholo prize fighting fraternity were tEf wiped from tho face of tho earth, so- W cloty would bo a groat gainer. Hf |