Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1919 — Boxing Will Tend to Lessen Crime arid Also to Protect the Individual [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boxing Will Tend to Lessen Crime arid Also to Protect the Individual

By E. C. BROWN.

Amateur Athletic* Pioneer

When I was president of the National A. A. U. in 1911 I recommended to the board of education and“ the public playgrounds fact, all educational institutions —that boxing should be taught as a branch of physical education. At that time I waa criticized rather severely for suggesting such a thing, the feeling being that it would create a great many bullies. Tn justice to myself I feel that I was much ahead of myself on the subject, as it has been proven in all army and navy training camps that boxing is an ideal sport, a wonderful developer, and becaush of the physical ben-

tfits derived it was considered the best of all ‘the training sports, and so was adopted by the army and navy As a member of the Olympic committed I recommended that boxing be included in their list of sports. Glancing back at 1 the work of the allies m the recent war, the hand-to-hand fightjng was decidedly in favor of the allies, the credit of which must naturally be given to the superior knowledge of all-around athletics. Not alone in boxing but in every branch of athletics our boys are trained in self-reliance. lam decidedly in favor of been with regulated boxing, about which I have been asked in a number of places - and on several occasions. Boxing should be controlled by a commission entirely removed from politics. Men of standing, in highclass athletics should be the men to make rules governing this sport. ' A.s a member-of- the— Olympic- -eommrttee, as an official in every A. A. U. championship meet held during the last decade, and as an official in every amateur athletic meet held in Chicago and the State of Illinois, I am. most heartily in favor of a boxing bill in Illinois, as it will tend to lessen crime and, best of all, protect the individual.