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Show Bishop Offers to Box Five Rounds For Soldier Fund LONDON, Oct. 16. (By the Assouan,! Asso-uan,! Press.) Eishop McLaglen. of Claremont, South fnca, has sent to ihe All Sports Weekly, an offer to box ui bishop five rounds for a fund for disabled soldiers and adds that, to aid in making the match, he will extend ihe offer to any editor of any paper of his own age. The bishop is 68 years old. He is ihe father of Captain Victor McLaglen, who is now training to box Joe Beckett, for the Lonsdale heavyweight heavy-weight championship belt The bishop's ofler was prompted ap-parentls ap-parentls by he. indignation at something some-thing the newspaper had printed con-i con-i ei ning his son "Why," he asks, "is It astonishing that a man who chooses to fight in the ring for money should bo the son of .i bishop, or a man of considerable educational edu-cational attainments'' 1 have had eight sons, all of whom served in (he war. and I should be ashamed of any who could not use his hands. Neither would I wish to see them willing to undergo un-dergo the long period of work and training necessary for a contest with out payment. I wish my sons to be what they are gentlemen; but I do wish to see them what they are not fools "Neither," adds the bishop, "is there anything contrary lo Christianity in boxing. This is solely the nonsense of clergy who havo forgotten that they) are men, living in a world of men and not of Victorian old ladies |