Show PRIZE FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS So the b big g fight is going to R Reno Bone no And in the same same ame paper is a dispatch that Gans is in the thee last stages of consumption on and a pitiful object to look upon INow INow I y Now one o of the objections bj to prize b by bythe bythe the good is that men ae are sometimes killed in the brutal matches s. s The case of or Gans shows that that's not lot so bad He had his chest all beaten to pieces over o and nd over a again ain and he lie said it did not hurt him lim at all but after awhile insidious disease got gottl gotto gotto to tl tho those e bruised lungs a and d now th they y tell teU us that thatto lie ho to is a pitiful object to see How better it would have been if he could only have been killed in n the ring sp so that all the sports through all t the e ages to come could tell what a game fighter h he was and never ne more game than in the moment that he was was was' killed Prize fighting is a brutal thing Its effect upon the young of the land we wo cannot estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate but if w we wc watch around the back yards we will see small s laIl boys calling themselves respectively Jeffries aid ayd Johnson pummeling ea each h other We Ve cannot estimate Because the germ germ of these those prize prizefights prizefights fights set in motion in the hearts of thoughtless and people cannot be estimated ted But for the fighters themselves there should not be lie any great grent s sympathy and if by a lucky stroke Jeffries should give the colored gentleman a fatal blow blow- and then a as he stepped back should fall and the back of his head head should land on a post and break his skull and kill kill him there would be no occasion for tears The fhe WG world ld could sa say that they were both bUth game fighters and died at their posts and ud it would be all right |