Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1917 — NOTED WRITER ON PUGILISM [ARTICLE]

NOTED WRITER ON PUGILISM

Ninth Marquis of Queensberry Great Patron of Boxing Game—Written Much About Boxers. The ninth marquis of Queensberry was internationally as a writer on pugilism. His father, the eighth marquis, was also a great patron of the boxing game, and his name is inseparably connected with the code which now governs fistic contests. “The Marquis of Queensberry rules” were, however, drawn up by J. G. Chambers. The marquis became an enthusiastic propagandist of the code, designed to rescue boxing from the disrepute into which it had fallen under the London prize ring rules and to eliminate its more brutal features, and soon all fighters and fans on both sides of the Atlantic were calling the new regulations “the Queensberry rules.” The present marquis has written much about boxing and boxers in the press of both America and England.