BURNS-SQUIRES FIGHT.
The Minister of Hands for Victoria, while at Sydney, attended the Burns-Squires fight, as he had framed regulations to prevent prize fighting on licensed racecourses, and had never seen a fight, he attended to get personal experience. Though he considers that the fight was not as brutal as he expected, it had shown him that it was pure nonsense to say that such a contest had any ennobling or elevatiug influence. When one man got a tremendous blow, there was a tremendous yell of applause from the spectators. If that blow had been effective, it meant that the other mau would have been practically disabled for the time being, and the tremendous yells of delight that greeted this did not tend to encourage any delicacy of feeling. He therefore saw nothing to make him reconstruct his ideas as to the Government giving any facilities at all lor these exhibitions.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 430, 29 August 1908, Page 2
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151BURNS-SQUIRES FIGHT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 430, 29 August 1908, Page 2
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