No Pictures Of The Prize Fight

The protest oí the Womeu's Christian Teinperance Union agninst the projosed reproduction by kinetoscope of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons prize iïylit ought toj be endorsed by every rightthinking man and woman in tlie country, and it is to be hoped tliat the exampie set by the Legislatures of several states in proposing the enactinent of laws to prevent such exhibitions will 3e followed generally. The reproduction of the brutal exhijition, as vividly as it will be done by a dnetoscope, would amount to the same thing practical ly as exhibiting the pugilista themselves and letting tliem fight over the battle at Carson City. No po3sible good can come from such exhibitious. On the contrary, they would do incalculable harin. They would tend in the flrst place to popularize prize fighting, and many a boy who savv the jictures would be inspired with a desire to become a pugilist. Prize fighting is a brutalizing and denoralizing sport, and if it is right to prohibit actual fights within a state or ;o punish those who witness fights, then t is certainaly wrong to permit the exïibition of pictures which practically eproduce the fight iu all its details The showing of the pictures is perhaps worse than the real fight, for the reason that the kinetoscope, while true to letails so far as movement and color are concerned, does not reproduce the sickening and disgusting incidente atendantupon every fistic encounter. For bat reason the pictorial prize fight is ntended to give a more pleasing impression of tíie brutal sport thau it deserves and mislead the people as to the dangers and disgrace of such contests.