Harvey the Boxer and the Blackleg

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 91, 13 December 1912, Page 11

Harvey the Boxer and the Blackleg

MORE FICHT WANTED. A PROTEST FROM AN EXPONENT OF THE MANLY ART. "Clean Sport" writes: Dear Worker, —I see in the sporting column of . a well-known and fearless Wellington journal that "The Cockney," who hangs out his flag at Waihi, and whose name is Harvey, is looking for more limelight and fight, and wants an opponent in the hemped arena. Well, this writer, who follows the noble art with keen interest, aßks his fellowsports to decline any sort of an old match with this notoriety I consider any man—God save the name in his case—who abuses his knowledge of the science of Nature's artillery to smash his fellow-toilers (to pile up dividends for the gold-kings) is completely out of the running in his claim for fistic laurels in the roped ring, and a disgrace to about as manly and decent a set of human beings es it is possible to meet, viz., • the boxing crowd, and who, in the main, make it a point of unwritten law. of honor never to take a mean advantage. But when an alleged boxer falls on a poor man who has been cruelly struck across the head and is in a dying condition, seizes him by the throat, and then says in court he guesses he would have done the business quicker than Wade, it is time to call on every boxer in the Dominion to ignore such a person in the name of clean sport; and as a boxer myself and a lover of the grand old game of self-defence, I ask every fellow-enthusiast to paste these lines up: in his workshop, office, or any old place, and not to even have a "friendly tap," as we call it, witih the individual under mention. He asks for fair play! Poor old Evans is not alive to ask for it, and we will give ft to a dead man. by treating Harvey for what he is—a disgrace to decent boxing circles. P.S. —News has just reached mc of the finish of the strike. Now then, right throughout the Capitalists' Own Country, "hats off" to the Federation of Labor for the grandest fight on record, and again throe cheers for the leaders, who have come through a hell of abuse for the rights of the toilers; and what about an extra one for the two papers in Wellington who gave the only true version of the trouble? My oath, don't forget, them! Let, her f_p!