Show MANLY ART ARTOF ARTOF OF SELf DEFENSE I GIVES HIS VIEWS ON ATHLETIC CONTESTS Says Football is More Brutal Than to Ministerial Asso Association Ogden Utah Dec lOth 1909 Rev Re Noble oble S Elderkin Secretary Ogden association Ogden Utah Dear SirS In reply to our letter or of bor askIng mo me to prohibit the t boxing cont contest st scheduled for the Wool Growers Grower c cOnvention wIll sa say have hav been looking hooking lip up the law and 1 find ho law authorizing the mayor maor of now ell city In Utah to prohibit a boxing con conI I st such ns as the board of control oC the onal Wool Growers conven convention tion me the boxing contest will ill be e on the evening of Januar 1910 I 1 am further urther assured that there thero Is no Intention of pulling off a prize fight It Is mY intentiOn to attend saId boring con contest Contest test and If it Il develops into a prize prizefight fight I shall certainly stop tile the con teat 1 cannot under understand strand stand Wh your om association objects to toa I Ia a Illustration of Ute the manly art of and remains silent on that most mast brutal of oC nn cli contests THE THI FOOT AI GAME Where ero one man IR i Injured in a box boxing boxing ing contest over oer ono one hundred are in injured injured In a football game Hero i is the tho football record fur for sixty days from October 1st to December 1st 1 1909 09 as given by that great authority Tl 11 Literary Digest Thirty oaths deaths players injured 1 12 broken collar iones S broken noses 12 broken brokell less legs 13 1 broken rl s 9 broken arms 19 broKen ankles 13 1 broken shoulders S broken wrists S 8 fingers 6 hands and 3 broken jaws This Is not nol a lIst of the casualties of ofa ofa a hattie battle remarks the Washington Stai but merely mereb the score of an ath athletic athletic letic game I 1 have hae seen such debasing brutality in football that I have been forced to withdraw my children from rom the game yet I 1 have seen an Og Ogden en preacher referee a football game I Ishall shall shaJi be pleased to join the Ministerial in setting a better ex cx example ample for oui ou youth but in iii doIng that I would desire to wipe out first that which is most brutal and debasing I 1 believe bellove the football game bramo produces moro sluggers and fighters than all other games sames combined Why Vh not strike at the tho root of the tho evil to be begin n If there is a desire to take vay from our youth the love of the tho Ver respectfully Signed W WM I NN or l ct |