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Updated: June 12, 2025
I chuckled despite me, as I put in my mean little hack. "I mean the Hartopp's husband," she explained. "There is," I said. "'Boiler-plate' Hartopp. His given name is James, and he prize-fights fair to middling." All this wasn't quite good billiards, but we'd begun wrong that night, and we might as well keep it up, thought I. Natica Drayton was tapping her foot upon the fender. "H'm," she mused.
Who will deny the benefit that must accrue to any locality by the infusion of all the loose fish of the kingdom? Formerly the prize-fights were the perquisite of the publicans. They it was who arranged for Shaggy Tom to pound Harry Billy's nob upon So-and-so's land, the preference being given to the locality that subscribed the most money to the fight.
The prize-fights did it! They upset old Hendrick's apple-cart and spilled his beans. Lots of them object to the fights because of the expense fighters are a high-priced bunch but I'm down on them because I think it bad form " "I should say so!" put in Eunice, emphatically. "Bad form for an Athletic Club of gentlemen to have brutal exhibitions for their entertainment."
Sports of all kinds are of the same general character, including prize-fights, bull-fights, athletics, shooting, angling, yachting, and games of skill, even where the element of destructive physical efficiency is not an obtrusive feature. Sports shade off from the basis of hostile combat, through skill, to cunning and chicanery, without its being possible to draw a line at any point.
And there had crept in on a small scale an exploitation of beauty by those who profited by the receipts at the prize-fights, the cinemas, and the bars. The French or part castes who owned these attractions were copying the cruder methods of the Chinese. Llewellyn, David, and McHenry were habitués of these resorts, and I not an infrequent visitor.
Among the things they do not need to know, and which would not be published, would be accounts of brutal prize-fights, long accounts of crimes, scandals in private families, or any other human events which in any way would conflict with the first point mentioned in this outline.
"I say, Buller," said Crawley suddenly, "you never go to Slam's, I hope?" "Not I." "Then how do you know such a lot about prize-fighting?" "I told Robarts; my elder brother is very fond of everything connected with sparring, and has got a lot of reports of matches, and I have read all the prize-fights that ever were, I think.
The stories he had heard of men being killed in prize-fights rose up horribly before him. Once only, when the shouts of "Well done, Brown!" "Huzza for the School-house!" rose higher than ever, he ventured up to the ring, thinking the victory was won.
I don't set much store by prize-fights for my part, and living pictures give me the headache: so, to salve everybody's conscience, I was left in sole charge of the ship.
In those early days of the century prize-fights were very common in England. The noble art of self-defence was patronized by the greatest in the land. Society loved a prize-fight, and always went to see it, as Society went to any other fashionable function. Magistrates went, and even clerical members of that august body.
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