"THE PUGILIST'S DILEMMA."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1350, 30 January 1912, Page 10

"THE PUGILIST'S DILEMMA."

G. B. SHAW ON RECENT TROUBLES,

A defence of the Kev. F. B. Mover if, r^sponsiblo for "The Pugilist's Dilemma," by George Bernard ..Shaw,. in. a recent.- issue of the "Byo "Witness."' In the. course of the article lie romnrks: "The police; expert in the Moran-Driseoll case, feeling, doubtless that there, was not much to l>i> mado out of-the black : eyes : he bad given and taken, fell Irack on 'cauliflower 1 - ear as intolerable blemishes on our civilisation. Now there arc no -do.ub t a . good many cars of this exfoliate rarie'ty in the ring, and those whose cars they ornament axe so far from being proud of them that they hare a pardonable habit of representing thsm as a traumatic, rather than congenital* but I. hare never seon any ears in the ring that had not the appearanoo of having been born so, "As to the terrifying list of new; mysterious, and deadly blows at which (hi pious public are quaking-, they aro only new names for things which n'obody would I alt:? seriously und;r their -old ones. When .lem Mac-a met ,Toe Goss ho got the tipper hand at, an early stage of the contest by, as he would have said, 'landing him a drive on the mark,' or, as you and I would have said, 'hitting him in tho wind.' When that rudely comic mishap occurs to tho .To? Gooses of cur dny we nrs told that they 'fell' before the terriblo solar plexus punch of which Po-a-nd-J-'o is a past master,' and we aro loft to infer I hat they are curried from the ring to their death-brd. The hook on the jaw by which the knock-out is attempted so ol'ton in modern glove encounters is a trifle compared with tho right-hand crossconnter of the old prisse-ring." Next, Mr. filiaw makes a suggestion with reference '-o the knock-out. It is a somewhat curious one, and this is what lie says: "Now, to mo.ko an end of the kiiook-oiit and the hook hit, all that is necessary is to add to tho articles of tho' Johnson-Wells or Jloran-Driecol!, or any other glove contest, the provision from the old London niles that in the event of one of tho contestants being knoeked down, tho round shall bo considered at an end. and the contest consequently stcpIhxl for lullF a minute oactly as it would hnvo boon between Torn Cribb and tho xagro. Molyttsus*" t