The first of the winter athletic meetings comes off this afternoon. A large part of the programme is given to "the noble art of self-defence," an art, however, that does not seem to be appreciated by the audiences at our athletic meetings. For the last few years, at least, the audiences at the meetings seem to have desired the boxer to confine himself to self-defence and at most only to hit his opponent when he approached dangerously near. Now, we object as much as any to unnecessary "slugging," but our observation at the last few winter meetings has been that much of the best and most legitimate sparring has been hissed. A sparring match consists in something more than "squaring off" and occasionally exchanging a blow, and if the spectators insist in hissing every sttempt to go beyond this we cannot hope to see much good work.
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