Wilson Times
The Methodists in conference assembled will endeavor to have the law allowing boxing repealed by the next legislature. This should by all means be done.
These boxing matches are nothing more than prize fights or fake fights which take the money of those who attend the bouts.
It is certainly not healthy from a moral standpoint. It fires the blood and raises the pugnacious qualities of men, which exist sufficiently without any encouragement.
We have seen two chickens or two dogs or two little boys fighting on the streets and a crowd would gather just to see it, and that is what we mean when we say there is plenty of pugnacity in the blood without adding more fuel to the flame. Stop the bouts for they will hinder the onward march of civilization.
Athletics to develop the muscles in men is good but public boxing where men are contesting for money in the presence of large numbers of people is too close akin to prize fights to be wholesome.
From the editorial page of The New Bernian, Sunday, Nov. 16, 1924. J.B. Dawson, Editor and Manager; N.G. Gooding, Managing Editor
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