| Show MADE BOXING GAME DEADLY Gloves Used In the Early Days Were Reinforced With Lumps of of Brass and Lead Boxing is one of the worlds world's oldest sports The noble art of self defense was practiced more than thirty centuries centuries cen cen- tunes ago It was as Indeed a strong mans man's game One hero called Enceladus used to slay alay oxen by giving lIving them one blow between the eyes with his fist Bo Boxing gloves were In ID use oven een In those early days but there was a difference The glove love of ot today Is la a padded affair designed to soften the effect of ot a blow In former times it was meant to Increase the force of the punch I It consisted of a strip of leather reinforced with lumps of brass and lead which was wound round th the pugilists pugilist's fist Men were wele willing to fight not for tor a purse pune of thousands of dollars but for fora a simple laurel wreath 1 I The boxing matches of those days were no joke joko for tor In most mOlt cases the vanquished boxer box- box Mr St was killed by the out knock-out blow |
