Sunday: Cardboard Tube Fighting League Battle at Dolores Park

Cardboard Tube Fighting League Battle
Dolores Park
July 6, 2008
Notes and Photos by Edward Paik
Better Than: What’s better than the hint of orange from your bottle of Blue Moon ale? The security that comes from a cardboard stick to make sure no one gets too close.
The cardboard knight strikes a pose, his prize cuffed in a fist and swung over his shoulder. He preens, then walks over to his mother and mumbles “I’m going to die. My stick is broken, and somehow I just pulled through."
You’ve earned it, Hank Moseley. You’re a champ. But it never crossed Moseley's 10-year-old mind, that after five rounds of tube-to-tube combat he’d sit atop the board as winner of the children’s cardboard tube fight Sunday at Dolores Park.
“I expected three rounds at the most,” he said shortly after his final bout. Most thought he was done when his stick went limp in the first few minutes of the finale, but he stuck with it and soon enough, his opponent’s aggression and his stubborn defense sent half of the other tube flying.











