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Show bare knuckles) In a twenty-four foot enclosure. No hupping, wrestling or rough tactics allowed, and rounds to be of three minutes duration, and with one minute rest, etc " The Queonsburv rules were put to a legal test In 1890, when Billy Madden Mad-den took the "big human freight car," Joe McAullffo to Bngland to box Frank Slavln. The authorities classed tlnj match an a prizefight, which would result in a breach of the British Brit-ish law and the contestants were arrested. ar-rested. But after a diligent research on the part of Sir Peter Bdlln, the crown counfiel (similar to prosecuting attorney) the judge was ordered to dlschirge the men on the grounds that a contest controlled by the Queens-bury Queens-bury rules was not a prize fight as outlined In the British law. There- has been no interference since, but on the contrary, boxing la even encouraged by the nobility, the lndon Sporting club In particular. , being a swell evening dress affair. J The rules are more readily enforced there than In America and a3 a result re-sult the pport Is kept cleaner. The referee does all hl work from outside out-side the ring and hid word or motion mo-tion of the hand is law. In England, wrestling Is separated from boxing, j which makea the boxing more open and more- cleverness results. Too much clinching smothers the art of good 'hoxlng and the peonle dislike to 1 9ce these hupping matches. WroPtl- I ing Is not boxing and boxing Is not prize fighting, accordtng to the laws , where the anort originated In Ogden the authorities objected to the late contest until the principal gave assurance that they would uso nothing less than eight-ounce gloves, which are sufficiently padded to ellm- j inate the possibility of any "brutality Foucupm TELLS DIFFERENCE To a recent issue, of the Salt Lake Tribune, Willard Bean contributed the following: A prizefight and a boxing contest are regarded in the same light by a great many people not up to the sport, and I am asked a hundred time every day to explain the difference. dif-ference. Tho general public is Interested Inter-ested at this time on account of the coming championship contest between be-tween James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson. Prize fighting In tho generally accepted ac-cepted term, originated In the rural districts of England and graduslly ppread to the more thickly settled districts. As the "bare-knuckle sport' ktcw in popularity It was deemed wise to keep it undor control, con-trol, hence a net of rules, called tho Jxmdon Prize Ring rules, was adnptcd. The conte6ts under these rules were with bare knuckle, a knock down or fall determining a round and the contest ended when one man, or both, wan battered to a pulp, and one or the other was rendered ren-dered physically helpless. All kinds of wrestling, slugging and rough-houso rough-houso tactics were resorted to to gain an advantage by tho contestants the rule to win any old way be-Ing be-Ing tbe survlral of the fittest from a "brute" standpoint. Such con-teBtwere con-teBtwere fdlghtly modified from a gladiatorial stunt It was against such brutal and gruollng contests that the English legislators took action. Marquis of Queensbury. Rut the Marquis of Queensbury saw the possibility of developing a scientific scien-tific and practical field of sport and accordingly drafted a code of rules now known a tho Marqs of Queens-btiry Queens-btiry rules, which, If properly enforced, enforc-ed, eliminates the brutal and offensive offen-sive elements and retains tho practical practi-cal features deciding the best man without any Injurious after effects. The flrRt rule reads: "Tt must be a fair stand up boxing match (not prizefight) with fair-sized gloves (not |