Show PRIZE FIGHTERS AS HEROES I All the i country including our own state was horribly shocked when the Nevada legislature passed a law allowing allow-ing prizefights So great was the shock that when the two fighters started west their journey became almost al-most a royal progress The theatres where they exhibited were fairly jammed One of these fighters was in this city yesterday and gave an exhibition ex-hibition last night During the afternoon after-noon the fighter could not move around the town without being followed by a large crowd of admirers at least the crowd did not act as though he had its I disapproval Last night me playhouse where he exhibited was crowded and so eager were the people to see this depraved man that prices were doubled And those who went to see him were not the disreputable element by any means There were high state officials and leading citizens in every walk of life It is safe to say that the great majority of those who saw this fighter last night including high state L L oinciais anu leading citizens wished they could see the mill at Carson on the 17th proximo All this suggests the question whether there Is not quite a little hypocrisy hy-pocrisy In all of the virtuous ind4gna tion about the Nevada disgrace Most people in this world like to seem and have people think they are better than they really are like to have people peo-ple think that their thoughts never wander from the realm of the true the beautiful and the good Prizefighting Is condemned by law in everv state in the Union except wicked Nevada and it would never In the world do for good citizens the exemplars ex-emplars of society to admit in their own hearts where not even a Roentgen Roent-gen ray could reach that they had Just a little tiny liking for a good o J IIikiiW I I lively bout The pillars that uphold the social fabric would fall were the admission ad-mission once made The ovation given last night it was scarcely less to one of the principals in the forthcoming fight at Carson shows that there is somewhere an incongruity between our statutes and our sentiments in this I state |