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GENERAL SPORTING COMMENT COMMENTGOT GOT Stephens of Missouri has signed the so called breeders bill and it becomes a law about July 7 ninety days from April 9 His act was proper He enquired into the angle of outlawry and hung about it foi some days It was a natural and humane halt The pugilistic hikyism raised about the bill for purposes of defeat amounted to nothing Any court of record would have straightened out such a tangle against such a corner The bill shows how keen in state intelligence the Missouri leg ¬ islature is as against his fellow in Illinois St Louis has taken 3000000 or so per year since 1894 from Chicago over its racing at the Fair Grounds Its hotels and merchants can report on pofits Illinois hangs on fifteen days Mis ¬ souri is eager for ninety days It is likely that the star of empire does drift west Until July though pool rooms will abound in the state of Missouri The Fair Grounds may fight the rooms of St Louis by a foreign book of its own to run until the Breeders law becomes oper ¬ ative We shall see The Boston corner of indecent pinkpaperdom harshly criticises George Siler for his alleged statement that Sullivans challenge to Fitzsim mons was and is a bluff The pinkism of sporting literature isja libel on sport A sports ¬ man isnt lewd or indecent Pink literature is A sportsman doesnt keep a bagnio a barber shop nor a drinking place on account of sport Pink literature caters to such corners A cheap fighter isnt a sportsman Neither is a dabbler in harlotry contention of chickens and dogs a larcenous sprinter or a fakir in wrestling and other lines All these brigands are outside legal lines and the pale of sport They only escape the stockades which are specially fitted up for them through legal negligence under a cloak that is honorable when well worn A sportsman is a good citizen He averages a bit above the average good citizen because his training is on lines of honesty contention and self control The sportsman is never a crank Some good citizens are less than well balanced on some corners Siler was right and a little less than frank if he said what he is said to have said Sullivans challenge is more insincere than a bluff It is a joke for advertising purposes Siler has always been honest and as a judge of fighters is keenly capable His dignity of retortive silence about the talk attributed to Corbett over un ¬ fairness in the training and call as to the sixth round of the Carson Jfight deserves a medal Corbett never made suck a talk as was printed The dailies though print anything nowadays nowadaysThe The supremo newspaper fence about the Car ¬ son episode I was indecent It cast the only shadow that was thrown over the big fight The public looks on its newspaper as opposing trusts and corners The publics news newspapers pretend to oppose such ills and clamor for their abatement Yet the Nevada newspaperic trust plan corner or com ¬ bine and its operations were more keenly built than those of the Standard Sugar or any other trustful structure devised by modern man or men for the exclusion of all others but a few fewFitzsimmons Fitzsimmons and his cheap surroundings were in Chicago As a business proposition the new champion will not do at all except to be done He hasnt a business side to him and isnt able to choose men that have While hes getting fireworks jolly and cheap glory Corbett and his keen business associates are gaining the pelf incident to novelty Fitzsim ¬ mons isnt much1 socially and is even less commercially Ho has done fighting enough in a sensational way to have earned 250000 in theatric lines during the past three years But he has been botched by his surroundings has botched himself and hasnt got much of any ¬ thing to show for what he has done Corbett is worth 200000 or so Who said that such a showing was that of mind over matter
