| Show y IB FIGHTING P PARSON USES USES BOXING BOXING GLOVES GLOVES AS AS SERMON FOR FOR KIDDIES KIDDIES I Rev M M. M o E. E oI o Has I Class Cass for fr t i Boys to I Teach Them Good Manners I West est Side Parson Uses Unique but Effective Methods to t o Lure Youngsters From Streets to Organized Play and Rec Recreation gaffers of th the Neighborhood Neighbor hood House I By Steve IDLE moments breed evil il hours i i 1 There is many ny a philosopher and an d sage who has expressed the thought SlId and it is on this rather trite but absolutely so sound d sa saying ing that the Rev Hey M. M r. r E. E Kellington the west side sides side's 8 fighting parson has built-an built organization that is running the tho juvenile courts out of business IT IS IS 1 JU RELIGION 1 A A- Al l lot t ot of f peo people Ie associate religion and and good living with reforms austerity re ret restrictions re- re t and passive SI prayer Perhaps a aI that 1 is one form of i religion r but it t I Isn Isn't t the kind that Rev Re Kellington I practises s and preaches He believes in this life as well as the next he ho boI beI beeves be- be I I I eves leves eves in happy happ healthy health activity and for that reason the reverend gentleman gentle- gentle nan man lies has done more for Cor the kids of the west side aide than any single factor of welfare welfare wel wel- fare work and reform that has b been en started in Salt Lake The Neighborhood House has ben been In for a number of years ears It I was v-as built and established primarily as i a welfare move It was destined to 1 I Five elve Ive t the e folks folles in Its community a meet- meet place the place where working peoples people's peo peo- ples pIes children can hang out and be cared ared for It was to be a place of amus amusement ment Instruction and recreation It lived up to Its purpose I IX IN STEPS PARSON I I Somehow or another the young boys I didn't didn t take to the pl place e quite enough I There wasn't the excitement the thrills find I and the tho pep that their hot young Mood blood demands and the they didn't get around as often as the they should The They The got more out of or breaking windows and ex experiencing experiencing ex- ex th the thrill of the chase Then In stepped the fl fighting parson and a new ne deal l was called Through h some lome s mystO manner a manner all Its own owns Parson Pars Kellington got grot th the kids together r fur for a n little talk He didn't dl didn't tell trl them a R word n bout God bout 00 1 dl didn't nt teach h tb them m manners rd scold them Ho Ito just got gotthem them out into the yard and suggests suggested i a I game gamp of or prisoners prisoner's 1 h base se f se or blind blindman's blindman's blindman's mans man's bluff or 01 tu to tug bf war wl That start start- I ed ad It The closing prayer rayer was Just an announcement that tho the next nut flay bay there would I j pe e some ome e boxing gloves glove o In Inthe Inthe the place and i i t th the ec c ch champions would have a chance to show their stuff RECORDS NOT OT SOUGHT That Isn't Int the first time that bO gloves ha have been used as a mean means of ot moral suasion but that didn't on nn anything Mr fr Kellington wasn't out for r records o lI He He- was just out to sava save sav savea a few souls with a pair of ho boxing gloves glo He organized a class ClaM and now the tle youngsters can an b be found around th the Neighborhood Nel House almost any old time that school Isn't lant In session Broken windows lows have gone Kont out or of style the chase chuo Is III no more but the thrills ar u. u still there Mr Kellington himself tr an ardent devotee of th the art of ot self defense In Instructed In In- th the tho boys bos In the use of or the tho gloves It was vas hard at first tiNt Every time a boy got stung he ice tried to shake off his gloves Itlo and go at It In the old fashioned manner Now they know the rules tules of play pla the rules of the game and respect thorn them they have hate absorbed d the rules of t the he rules rule of sportsmanship and ob observe them with the same respect FIGHTS GO GONE E. E Street f f are no more Whenever When When- ever er any arguments l come up the they are ere until Mr ton Kellington arrives If th tho d demands mands drano mo action ac- ac tion the boys bora can put on the gloves 1 and the winner Inner Is le decided on points 1 without bloodshed or J As a result the boys boy In Mr ton tons tOIlS s gang from the writers writer's observance observance ance ane though ough healthy vigorous bolster bolster- us IS youngsters are as clean and fine as upright and manly young as one would care to meet G TEACHES Mr r. r I attributes the quail quan- ties of the young fellows vs to boxing Tho The sport does three thing according 10 to the fighting parson that helps th tb the general makeup of a II person and especially espe espe- daily that of a a. youngster It teaches self control physical condition and manners and lInd self respect The boys bos have found according ln to Mr lr I ellington Kellington that tho the man who loses control of himself loses the bout and antt they hey develop elop control In the ring and carry It to the outside and as a result become well mannered youngster youngsters Tho ibe physical condition also counts to ta a Treat great deal In the sport and the boys boyn ore watchful of ot their health The self self- control of tho pram game gives Ives the boys boy good manners and teaches then them tore others other MUCH Mr Is experienced In the work he has been ben doing He has haa spent l ten n y years ars In reform work and end in tho the Juvenile jU court work of San Senh Francisco Mra Mrs Ernest Bamberger II s the te D Dof patron of t his work at the Neighborhood House which he does without pm- pm m- m In tn addition to his hIli duties as a am minister It m Weve We've never been to hl his church to in fact dont don't know his religion but somehow somehow some some- i how how we like lIko his Idea Idea |
