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Show NOTED WRITER ON PUGILISM Ninth Marquis of Queensberry Great Patron of Boxing Game Written Writ-ten Much About Boxers. The ninth marquis of Queensberry was internationally famous as a writer writ-er on pugilism. His father, the eighth marquis, was also a great patron of the boxing game, and his name is inseparably in-separably connected with the code which now governs fistic contests. "The Marquis of Queensberry rules" were, however, drawn up by J. G. Chambers. The marquis became an enthusiastic propagandist of the code, designed to rescue boxing from the disrepute into which it had fallen under un-der the London prize ring rules and to eliminate its more brutal features, and soon all fighters and fans on both sides of the Atlantic were calling the new regulations "the Queensberry rules." The present marquis has written writ-ten much about boxing and boxers In the press of both America and England. |