Outside of this I regard boxing, whether professional or amateur, as a first-class sport, and I do not regard it as brutalizing.

Of course matches can be conducted under conditions that make them brutalizing.

But this is true of football games and of most other rough and vigorous sports.

Most certainly prize-fighting is not half as brutalizing or demoralizing as many forms of big business and of the legal work carried on in connection with big business.

Powerful, vigorous men of strong animal development must have some way in which their animal spirits can find vent.