Penalizing Prize Fighting and Boxing Exhibitions

Section 1 penalizes any person who within the Philippine Islands engages in, institutes, aids, encourages, or performs any act to further a contention or fight between two or more persons.
Section 1 covers fights “with or without weapons” and includes fights conducted using a light commonly called a ring or prize light.
Section 1 penalizes participation in a public or private sparring or boxing exhibition.
Section 1 covers sparring or boxing exhibitions “with or without gloves.”
Section 1 penalizes exhibitions where an admission fee is charged or received, either directly or indirectly.
Section 1 penalizes the sending or publishing of a challenge or acceptance of a challenge for such a contention, exhibition, or fight.
Section 1 penalizes carrying or delivering such a challenge or acceptance.
Section 1 penalizes training or assisting any person in training or preparing for such a contention, exhibition, or fight.

Section 1 applies to acts done “within the Philippine Islands.”
Section 1 applies whether the boxing/sparring exhibition is public or private.
Section 1 applies when an admission fee is charged or received, directly or indirectly.

Section 1 imposes a fine not exceeding $2,500.
Section 1 imposes imprisonment not exceeding one year and one day.
Section 1 allows the court to impose either fine or imprisonment, or both, in its discretion.

Section 2 requires expedited passage because the “public good” calls for speedy enactment.
Section 2 directs that the expedited passage follows Section 2 of “An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws,” passed September 26, 1900.