Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1912 — Boxing, Ancient and Modem. [ARTICLE]

Boxing, Ancient and Modem.

Although boxing and pugilism, ow cupylng much attention at the present time, were popular in classic Greece, they seem to have died out In the middle ages, and It is not until the end of the seventeenth century that; we find references to boxing as • regular English sport. Boxing, as distinguished from pugilism, may be said to date from 1866. when the Amateur Athletic club was formed, and the Queens berry rules drawn up. The boxing glove, however, had been Invented about a century before by Broughton, “the father of English pugilism.” who ased them In his practice bonts. But you will remember that the boxing glove, as described by Virgil, was • terrible Instrument of offense.