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Show PRIZE FIGHTERS AND OTHERS. If the fight at Toledo on the Fourth was for the purpose of determining deter-mining the finest specimen of manhood, the victory of Dempsey would be worth proclaiming. But neither Dempsey nor Willard represent more than so much brute force minus many of the finer prompting I of a real man. When the mighty war was on Dempsey and Willard held aloof. They had large forearms and bigger biceps, strong legs and well expanded ex-panded chests, but they did not have patriotism of the kind that sent hundreds of thousands of our boys out to defend the homes of America. Amer-ica. The gladiators of old were powerful and they prided themselves on serving in the front ranks of the armies of their day. Perhaps we are expecting too much of a prize fighter. To be a champion, a man must be of coarser fibre than one who cannot assimilate as-similate jarring punches to the jaw that break down the fabric of the ' delicate organism that determines whether a human is to be a cave man or a sensitive creature of hothouse culture. A prize fighter is a prize fighter and we should not expect him to be possessed of the higher sensibilities of a minister or the nice discriminating dis-criminating judgment of a statesman, although we know prize fighters fight-ers who we would class among our list of friends in preference to one i or two united States senators. |