Show is H. BAI RAD Of OC course we ve have all ul paid a good deal of oC attention to tho tue prize light over there in Nevada An amazing number of oC people watched It on the ground and ind nl an Immeasurably greater number watched from afar afar through through the thc medium of oC the telegraph and anti the thc newspaper offices It I Ivas vas was the thc central event for COl the nation naton on Monday and anti the thc fact ma may as well wel be reco recognized Not another occurrence attracted so much attention or provoked ed so 80 much or 01 so deeply cn engrossed a a comment The amount of oC mane money staked on the event can not bo be computed II It I must have run into tho the millions milons But what is the good of or It ali al A negro heavier and stronger and gifted gifted gift gift- IC- IC ed cd with wih a greater erne cle cleverness s In boxIng box- box In lag Ing than his white antagonist has been leen heckled decided winner of the tho light after af at- ter tel Cr hours hour of slugging and wrestling wrest wrest- ling hing an and butting of or heads It I. I must have been a a frightfully repelling spec spec- It I must In tho the course of or II It I. I I have ha the he thou thought ht of oC man many manya I Ia a man present tho the reflection that he wasn't In iii a a particularly cre creditable en en- en And all al the rest iest of the country must feel teel now that it I Is over that Interest in It I Wi was vas something something of or a a reversion to the thought and aId appetites appetites ap ap- petites of or the lie stone stono age ase It I was not a athing athing thing that should happen In America In the twentieth century A good man many men won mone money But lint that means that another lal largo large o number num nurn- ber o of men inca must have havo lost And the tho winners are not treating that thal cash as the they would woul mone money they had earned Come In and amid have something something This Is easy cy mone money This is pans mone money Thus the tho winner winner anti and he spends more than ho won Avon before beCore ho leaves leave the Iho place of entertainment The whole thing is vicious It I lowers lowers low low- ers all al of oC us us There Thero Is a trait In the make up of oC man which warrants and anti excuses the sudden descent to violence vio vio- hence lence lence ma may make mal right an and proper the tho resort to force and the blow straight from the shoulder may be bo an expression of a decided decle virtue But Dut this training for fOI weeks this elaborate preparation an and then this prolonged fight with wih Its Is blood and Its Is weariness and Its Is final Onal inconsequent inconsequent incon incon- sequent ending ending between two men who have nothing on earth against each other takes a little from the thc cr credit dit of e cr every man In the nation naton It I es establishes es- es a distinct loss los of oC the level good conduct and hl high h thought thought had won for 01 mankind Maybe prize lights fights like some other oth oth- er or forms of oC sin will wi always be with wih us But surel surely there should come como a atme time when good men will wi not give o countenance with wih their presence and anti them their thel money moncy patronage And Anti If IC such men keep awa away and if all al of their kind give it i the reprobation tho the practice practice tice deserves there will wi certainly bo ho boa boi hoa i a a decline In tho the business until that day when hen It will bo be solely the I wi entertainment entertainment entertain entertain- ment meat and tho occupation of the thuS thug And In Iii that thal time lime prize fighting will wi cease It I i Is 11 a little to lo be regretted that the thc general level o of American merican manhood manhood manhood man man- hood Is not nol now how quite quio high enough to lo insure that result |