Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-10-24 | Page 7 | Boxing, Ancient and Modern

Boxing, Ancient and Modern. Although boxing and pugilism, occupying oc-cupying much attention at the present time, were popular in classic Greece, they seem to have died out In the middle ages, and it is not until the end of the seventeenth century that we find references to boxing as a regular English sport Boxing, as distinguished dis-tinguished from pugilism, may be said : to date from 1S66. when the Amateur j Athletic club was formed, and tha 1 Queensberry rules drawn up. The box- j ing glove, however, had been invented about a century before by Brougbton, 'the father of English pugilism," who used them in his practice bouts. But vou will remember that the boxing glove, as described by Virgil, was a . terrible instrument of offense