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Show Boxing Challenge, Sweeping in Nature, Issued by Bishop Indignant Because Son Is Criticised for Fighting, Throws Down Gauntlet. LONDON. Nov. 15. (By the Associated Press.) Bishop McLaglen of Claremont. South Africa, has sent to the All Sports Weekly an offer to box any bishop five rounds for a fund for disabled soldiers, and adds that, to aid In making the match, he will extend the offer to any editor of any paper of his own age. The bishop Is 6.S. He is the father of Captain Victor ilc-La ilc-La gl e n , who i s no w i rain ing to box Joe Beckett for the Lonsdale heavyweight championship belt. The bishop's offer was prompted apparently ap-parently by his indignation at .something the newspaper had printed concerning his son. "Why." he asks, "is it astonishing that a man who chooses to fight in the ring for money should bo the son of a bishop, or a man of considerable educational attainments? at-tainments? I have had eight sons, all of whom served in the war. and I should be ashamed of any who could not use his hands. Neither would I wish to see them willing to undergo the long period of work and training necessary for a contest con-test without payment. I wish my sons to be what they are gentlemen ; but I do not wish to see them what they are not fools. "Neither," adds the bishop, "is there anything contrary to Christianity In boxing. box-ing. This Is solely the nonsense of clergy who have forgotten tliat they are men, living in a world of men and not of Victorian Vic-torian old ladies." |