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There are three short stories: an account of a prize-fight,--still Mars,--a story of a squalid seduction,--Venus following the camp-fires,--and a study of an Idiot, Boy who inadvertently slew a pet cricket. The first two are by Mr. T. Pulsifer. As for the prize-fight, in "The Champion," there is some vivid realism in the style that gives promise of an eventually competent reporter. The anther should study the great classic in this genre,--the account by Mr. John I., Sullivan of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, in, I think, The New York Journal...
...headings in the Boston Globe are works of art, judging from the following which appear above an account of a prize-fight: "Punched into Slumber"; Science Toys Coyly with Bullheaded Grit...
...Professor Johnson. Newspapers have so utterly misrepresented the game as to make it appear to the general public a diminutive war, into which the contesting sides go with the avowed intention of maiming bodies, dislocating joints and other similar features such as characterize a modern rough-and-tumble prize-fight. A football game is not marked by such butchery, nor is it devoid of manly and courageous characteristics. The author opens with the question of the legitimacy of its being called the American game of foot-ball rather than the Rugby because the students of the various American colleges 'have...
...that compulsory gymnastics will be required of the lower classes. It is stated that the engagement of Prof. P. McClellan, of New York City, who was appointed to the chair a year ago, has been broken because within a week after his appointment he accepted a challenge to a prize-fight for the light-weight championship of America, and the proceeding could not be tolerated by the trustees of the university...
Rumor says that Ryan sold out before the recent prize-fight...