Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-07-03 | Page 6 | English Novelist Denounces Fistic Sport in Letter to Newspaper

ENGLISH NOVELIST NO NOVELIST DENOUNCES DE DENO OUNCES SPORT SPORT T IN LETTER LETTER TO NE 1 r i V Walker Walker-Milligan alker- alker Milligan Fight Brings A i Protest From Sir Hall Caine Writer Cockran J for Promoting t 1 Match j I J. i fLOND LONDON July 2 AP Thurs AP-Thurs- Thurs Thursday day J champl championship fight beJ be- be ten J en Mickey Walker Valker of or New Jerand Jerand Jer- Jer ey and Tommy Milligan of or Scotland Scot Scot- land and has aroused Sir Hall HaJJ Caine Calne English novelist to a nt denuncIation catlon of or the prevailIng prevail Ing ng and passion for tor J. 4 triumphs of or brawn brawt over brain Shocked by the press accounts 3 f match won by the Amen Amerl- 1 v nf a knockout Sir Hall hail has hasI I a Ie letter Her to the Dall Dally Daily Express I i a asking for tor some man who can speak f authority of or the public publio con- con 1 to call a halt to these thOle or o ot at corrupt degrading human- human J these gro gross s exhibitions of merT merr mer- mer r T i dIces savagery and loathsome tra- tra r in human suffering Condemning the prevailing pre- pre fj passion for triumphs of pr rawn wn over o brain the novelist at atwi at- at wi i. i t. t tacks Charles Charlea B B. Cochran the promoter pro pro- 0 tt f moter r r. r telling him if there were no such uth men as he there would be no f z Such s scenes nes as those of or Thursday j I i r r I r ur dur horror and shame Is he h writes when hen we rem em- em s 7 41 er the combatants themselves were the slaves slaves slaves-It If willing slaves t the e persons who organized their debauch of or brutality and of il te who paid to look upon fi t. t M J was as called to the notice Qt q those concerned in In the fight tight VAlker saying there was vas no bruS bruty bru- bru S ty and Milligan t that t they played e. e game gathe straight and fought cleanThe clean- clean v The ThO he Scotchman advised Sir Jl iau Ut 16 study boxing J JJ J J k I Kearns earns Walkers Walker's manager rd tar d the charge of brutality was heer piffle Promoter Cochran the novelists novelist's views as pearly w anly Victorian and if Sf there had been the slightest r faUty he would have stopped li fight Be Immediately Hannen who reported the for tor the Express In a state- state some sympathy with vs e e. e views lews of SIr halt Hall says that Latter after the fight he talked with some xing e. e experts all of ot whom de- de ared the fight ought to fo have been two rounds before the lockout adding that Milligan was 5 r badly battered he J would never f lh g agaIn 1 it