Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — Prize-Fighters Are Cowards. [ARTICLE]

Prize-Fighters Are Cowards.

Ex-Pugilist in New York Times. Mr. Mace is, of course, a new man in this country, and I don't believe he would purposely harm a fly. He is a great big goodnatured boy,who is bound to get into bad company. Let me tell you, sir, that he s a coward like all the regt of them. The science of boxing is a delusion and a snare No decent man needs to know anything of sparring. Few decent men are ever compelled to put up their hands in self-defense. Boxing is a good athletic exercise, but who become proficient in it seem to reply more upon pistols and knives than they do upon their fists when forced to defend themselves.