Crossword-Solution: PRIZEFIGHTS 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 29

Why? Because these administrations, with their daily rows, furnish as racy news as prizefights or divorce cases.

His ordeal took place in a large, low-ceiled room illuminated by five very plain, thin, two-armed gas-jets suspended from the ceiling and adorned by posters of prizefights, raffles, games, and the “Simon Pinski Pleasure Association” plastered here and there freely against dirty, long-unwhitewashed walls.

Even in its palmiest days prizefights were banished from certain counties by hostile magistrates, just as they have been driven from the United States and England to Belgium on certain occasions in our own time.

Men, now--they can talk about horses and saddles and cows and cutting wood and prizefights and poker games and election--" "And women and Fords," he interrupted.

How otherwise is it possible for prizefights to be held in New York city, in spite of the earnest efforts of the police to prevent them? How otherwise is it possible for places positively known by the police to be gambling resorts to be conducted, and to obtain injunctions restraining the police from interfering with them? "The foregoing is far from saying that the police force of New York is incompetent, or not able to cope with the situation.