Correspondent’s attack on prize fighting contradicted
The paper defends a Cumberland Hall boxing match held Monday night calling the correspondent’s “not for publication” critique intemperate. It argues both fighters left the ring in good spirits, the referee stopped in the fourth round, police saw no brutality, and that boxing improves temper and physique, opposing sensationalism.
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Comox Atlin Heavyweight Falls to Esquimalt Lightweight
A Montreal Daily Witness extract describes a 1910 Victoria brawl in which John Jardine M P for Esquimalt floored a Dominion Cabinet Minister William Templeman after objecting to federal post allotments. Templeman injured and confined to his home. Jardine famed for blunt speech and punch.
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Templeman Refused To Entertain the Objection Whereupon Mr. Jardine
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