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Show ARCHBISHOP KEANE ON BOXING. Sensible Talk on Man's Ability to : Use His Fists. Archbishop Keane of Dubuque has come out in favor of boxing.-The archbishop, arch-bishop, -in a . talk .to his congregation last Sunday in the Key City, told his hearers.-that boxing was a good thing, and was rather to be encouraged encour-aged than frowned upon, says the Butte Miner. ;, He had . been asked" by some, of his parishioners, said the' archbishop, as well as by sore outside of the Catholic Cath-olic church, to say something in regard re-gard to the boxing carnival to be given giv-en in conjunction with the street fair to be held in Dubuque during the week just closed. ' He could find . nothing" wrong in boxing. - .'Twas a manly thing, this ability to use one's fists at the proper time. Better Bet-ter knock your assailant down with your first" than resort to the bowie or derringer. No harm can come of boxing if kept within limits. As to the street fair, with Its midwayTdances, living statues and the like, 'twere Just as well to keep the boys away. Let them go rather to the boxing matches. In the one they could learn nothing which a pure-minded boy should know. At the sparring matches they might acquire a taste for the art, which, if properly taught and properly controlled, con-trolled, would be a benefit to them in after years. The talk of the archbishop created a stir in the whole archdiocese. The prompters of the boxing carnival feared that the archbishop would :come out and demand the suppression of the matches scheduled. What wa3 their surprise then, when, instead of scoring scor-ing the thing the reverend one stamped the boxing carnival with his approval. The archbishop admitted that the bouts should be go beyond the point of boxing, be stopped. The"re was no use in continuing a match in which one man completely outclassed his opr ponent. As soon as a boxer had demonstrated dem-onstrated his superiority over his opponent op-ponent the match should be stopped. It was a long, learned talk, and gave evidence of the fact that the nrch-bishop nrch-bishop had thoroughly acquainted himself him-self with the finer points of the sport. Were others of the cloth inclined to do as much before tackling a subject they know nothing of there would be less tirades against boxers and ' boxing, box-ing, says Lou Housman, in the Inter-Ocean. Inter-Ocean. Eight contests, practically, were decided de-cided in Dubuque on Wednesday and Thursday last, and there was not enough blood shed in all of them to equal one center rush in a game of spirited football. It is too bad that a stenographic report re-port of the archbishop's whole sermon was not taken. It would make valuable valu-able literature at this point of bitter bit-ter protest and feeling against boxing. box-ing. . .. ' ' |
