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Show The Philadelphia Times recommends the whipping-post for those who engage in prize-fighting. The spectators should be included in the penalty, then, for without the dollars contributed by many thousands of our citizens, prize-fighting, as it is practically now-a-days, would be an impossibility. As long as the money of the public & forthcoming in such tempting amounts, the suppression of pugilism will be an impossibility. Despite its apparent brutality, it is doubtful whether there is half the actual suffering in a prize-fight that there is in a bona fide walking match, and the mortality 13 not greater than in other forms of athletic contests. The hippodrome has done j more to suppress genuine prize-fighting j than all the laws made against it. |