PRIZE-FIGHTING.
—— A CABINET MINISTER'S VIEWS. Received A'Jgust 27, 9.12. a.m. MELBOURNE, August 28. The State Minister of Lands, while in Sydney, attended the Burns-Squires fight. As he hud framed regulations to prevent prize-fighting and licensed race-courses, and had never seen a fight, he attended in order to get personal experience. He has stated that, though the fight was not as brutal as he had expected it to be, it had shown him that it was pure nonsense to say that such a contest had any ennobling or elevating influence. When one man got in a tremendous blow there was a tremendous yell of applauss. If that blow had been effective it meant that the other man 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 saw nothing to make him reconstruct his ideas as to the Government giving any facilities at all for these exhibitions.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9178, 29 August 1908, Page 5
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164PRIZE-FIGHTING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9178, 29 August 1908, Page 5
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