Show o 0 oTilE TUB TilE PRIZE FIGHT FIGUr I By L A. A Hollenbeck For several weeks the world was agog over the bout between Carp Carpentier Carpen- Carpen en- en tier and Dempsey which took place at Jersey City July 2 They fought for the so-called so championship of oft t tho the world and Dempsey came off oft W with first honors It Is said that Dempsey received a purse of three hundred thousand dollars and that the loser Carpentier was with two hundred thousand dollars There arc a lot of people who would like to be he mauled by y Dempsey If they could get that fee The prosecuting I attorney who saw the fight with a aI I r- r certain church element tried to swear out a warrant for Dempsey after after after af af- ter the scrap No use The world has bas not yet progressed that far The gamo game seems to be the spice of life I whether it be the pugilistic game or orthe orthe f the financial game All An fights are 4 for power whether It be war or perI personal personal per per- I encounters That is the world I is utilitarian and the appropriation I of utilities Is the the purpose of all com corn bats But war and duelling are aro violations violations violations vio vio- lations of the principle of the survival sur sur- S i vival 0 of the fittest for in those encounters encounters encounters en en- counters the fittest are arc killed therefore therefore therefore there there- fore the only war that can be tolerated tolerated tolerated toler toler- is mental warfare and encounters encounters eni en en- i counters where the man Is not kUli killi killed kill kUl- i ed that Is la w wars ware r of trade and physical 1 s i cal combats regulated by rules Duelling to kill has been In tn disrepute disrepute disrepute 1 y since the famous duel b between tween M y Hamilton and Burr But up to that I I 1 I. I 10 I time differences between persons and nations were sometimes wagered ina Ina in ina a physical combat And we have biblical authority for tor it Let the bibliographers be beware beware beware be- be ware for the most famous duel in all history is the affair between Goliath the famous giant of the Philistines and David the little stripling of Is Is- Is rael Saul blessed David and sent seul him forth to battle with Goliath and promised that David should have the support of the Lord In tho the famous duel and it seems that the Lord Lora supported supported supported sup sup- ported him that is Is the Lord Jord and ond Saul became Davids David's seconds and David became the tho champion in that famous amous duel David fought for his nation and for power for the latter later was an essential consequence of the successful encounter It mean meant power and opulence for his nation and for himself if he ho won Duelling with pistols and swords had a little of the same element but had too much of malice and revenge that was pandering pandering pandering ering to the worst in nature To Tos s satisfy usry malice and a fancied insult by bya a duel is now discountenanced by public opinion People have grown a peg They know that it means destruction do- do and the same with wars they are are too destructive and sive Like a suit for small damages that is founded on malice the damages damages damages dam dam- ages are immediately forgotten and It II becomes a fight over the cos costs and the costs frequently ruin a man But it seems that the animal as yet must be satisfied and the fighters are aie picked from the ablest that the world has they ar arc are paid big money and the sightseers who have more money looney than brains rush in to see the Champions maul each other They admire the science It is easier to get Knowledge first first firsthand hand than through h books The rhe chemist goes to his laboratory laboratory laboratory lab lab- oratory for first firt hand knowledge there is an exhilaration In experience experience experience ence and the crowd seems to be satIsfied satisfied satisfied sat sat- for a time like a wild beast that has gorged himself on tho the other species and retires to every day business busIness business bus bus- iness and is a normal modern man again It seems to center around the ideas of morals and what Is morals but relativity To fight is good morals to the fighters Every man and every nation has a little different standard of morals The morals of the fighter is measured by the Ithe dough he gets by the fight while that of the onlookers Is measured by bythe bytho bytho tho the delight he gets geta from the tho scientific fic fie maneuvers ers and the of the cave man in his nature that sharpens his to successfully successful successful- I ly meet his antagonist in the world of competition where he also gets the dollars of his daddies All for dollars and c cents for cents for influence and 1 power There Thero has been Jeen an effort to abolish prize fights bull fights and horse racing They are aro abolished for a time and then they come back again They are arc not killing games like war They fight and survive hence the they do not violate the law of the survival of the fittest For this reason and for the additional reason that it il gives a chance for both men and women to bet and gamble which seems to be an passion of oC mankind public sentiment for a time yet will have bave to tolerate the prize fight and the horse race though there are sentiments connected connected with both that are repugnant to much of oC the best thought of the tho country but when colleges advocate and practice tho the game of football which is little less than the brutality of a prize prizefight prizefight prizefight fight because It develops develops s the fight and force in a man it is not strange that a less polished od crowd wd should patronize the ring for the same sarno rea rea- son 0 |