Show An Authoritative Sport Fea Feature ture by the Foremost Foremost Fore Fore- 4 most Sporting Writer and Cartoonist in J x r I America c By Robert Edgren CE In a a. while a boxer comes along with something new and if It ItI it itIs O ONCE Is I 8 good enough to get the money he ho becomes rich and famous tl before other ther boxers find a wa way to offset his advantage New blows In boxing are sometimes discovered b by accident or are arc developed because of oC some ome peculiarity In the boxers boxer's build or are arc invented for tor some particular purpose and amI afterward prove pro good enough for tor continuous use Of or course in fact tact theres there's no such tuch thing as UI a new blow after thousands thou thou- sands of ot years yera e rs of at boxing But some somo are mc new enough to astonish the present generation There was Dal Hawkins for tor instance a n youngster born over In Virginia City Ne Nev when the they were taking silver out of at the Comstock Lode b by the ton Dal Dat was a slim youngster when ho he drifted to San Francisco He Ho had hada hadL a L fighting beak and when it wasn't being punched It was WIlS leading him to victory Dal DRI made mado tho the acquaintance of ot some somo boxers who trained in a Frisco gymnasium There was a n. darky among them Darkies Darkles were a distinct novel novelty on tho the coast const then the tho only onh three well weI known specimens being Charlie and Rufus Turner of ot Stockton and Major Walker alker of Oakland who ho with perfect impartiality carried the banner for tor Republican and Democrat in Sn all parades Dal boxed bond with the dark darky in the gymnasium mn but couldn't hit him be because he- he cause clUse ho he didn't like to be hit and so M carried a high guard Jard at all aU times timeR That high guard worried Dal He lie tried various ways of at getting o oVer oer er or under or around It IL One da day he reached over very slow slowly poised his left leU hand in air only a few tev Inches above tho the blockading arms and dropped it sudden suddenly with a twist of ot the wrist Tho The dark darky flopped lopped to the floor and stayed cd there Dal Dat was the tho sensation of ot the moment The other boxers wanted to know how he hc did it It I but he wasn't quite sure himself I and anyway anway he wasn't telling In private atc he practiced that punch QUICKEST KNOCKOUT ON RECORD March 17 17 at Carson on the afternoon of ot tho the Corbett FitzsImmons fl fight ht which had been held hold at noon Hawkins met Martin Flaherty Flaberty considered one ono of ot the best lightweights In the East Tho The bell hell rang ranI and they the came face to face tace Dal reached out slowly a hesitating tentative e left to which Martin paid no attention The left suddenly dropped over oer Flaherty's Flaberty's guard There was a a. sharp thud like the tho sound of ot a 1 cleaver er on a bone Flaherty was on th floor being counted out Seven seconds had passed since ince the fight began A Afterward Hawkins JIa dropped clever er Frank frnnk Erne with the tho same flame punch while J Ern rn ne was Tas watching for lor It IL and twice dropped d Joe Gan Gans In exactly the same way ar arH H In the first round Gans Cans and Ine both weathered the knockdowns and had their Inning later But Haw flaw kins left was waR the mo most t famous blow of his hi time tImi with tho the single exception of of or ortho tho the Fitzsimmons solar plexus punch Very ery few people know of or tho connection connection connection tion of ot Mike lIke Donovan old Donovan old time middleweight middleweight middle middle- Wel weight ht champion and retired long before appeared with appeared with that punch As a a. companion of or Bob Fitzsimmons when Fitz was middleweight champion and nud a a. sensational fighter tighter Donovan was as first to show sho Freckled Bob tho the shift shirt and tod hod body punch that won him the worlds world's heavyweight championship at Carson f was on tho the road knocking knocking knock knock- ing out nil all comers corners He thought a hard I punch was a Joke and he often orten delivered a playful ful tap lap on the Jaw that knocked L his opponent out for lor or several hours One da day Donovan took Fits aside and said Bob Bob you dont don't know your our own strength I Youre You're going to kill some Fome fellow some ome night hitting em on the Jaw tho the way you ou do and then you'll be sorry when wa Its It's too late Now Isow ow try It like this and ancI punch them In tho the bod body Donovan illustrated and I tried the new wa way out that night and knocked his man kicking with tho the solar olar plexus punch As Mike told me rae once Bob was as 8 tickled as a kid with Ith a new to toy He lie wanted wante to tf try It out on ever everybody everybody every every- body alter after that thal JEFF JEFFRIES WON TITLE WITH BLOW SLOW ME MEANT NT FOR A STALL Jim Jeffries knocked Bob Fitzsimmons out with a right hamler bander on the chin But I the blow that won the thc n fight ht for him was walt his walking beam left Funny Funn that Mow blow Nowa wa wasn't mt meant for lor a winner of or rI fights It 11 was Just designed b by Jeffs Jeff's wise wlee handlers handlers han ban diers as a a. means of ot holding tho the ru rushing slamming FItzsimmons away Jeffries was taught to bend over and cover his Jaw with his right ht glove Jove and extend his left teft like a ships ship's bowsprit The They told him never to remove that protecting right from his ja Jaw until Fitzsimmons grew weary ear from hitting him The tight right might have gone differently but for the stiffened left arm I simmOns rushing furiously an I against th the solid end of It where Jeffs Jeff's I big knuckles were doubled underneath I tho the glove might as well have havo run I Into tho the end of ot a In the dark He I was as knocked knocke flat on his shoulder blades blades' and so dazed that Jeffries really renny had the I fight won right there He afterward used that extended rigid left success success- I fully In several fights Kid hid McCoy MeCo was famous for tor his hla corkscreW corkscrew cork cork I screw punch He Ho devised and invented that punch for a purpose of ot his own I McCoy had worked as a trainer for Tommy Ryan a great middleweight who was afterward champion In bi his class claMs Ryan took delight hL In beating up McCoy Mc Mc- fc- fc I Coy who was a a. slender youth McCoy l seethed with rage against Ryan but he ho didn't let Itt Ryan know It After a while ho he went awa away trained long and hard and Induced a promoter to offer a a. purse for a t Ryan McCoy fight When he met Ryan Ran ho he know knew ho could whip Ryan Ran but buthI hI ho didn't want to knock Ryan out He wanted to return all the old training camp beatings with Interest He wanted to let Ryan stay nearly the limit and punish him So ho he practiced a neat little trick of twisting his left fist as his hla glove Jo landed This t twisted glove would cut and tear He fie ne kept Ryan Ran dazed daud throughout the cut him to pieces and refused to give e him the tho coup do de grace until thelast round Ever Every ono one talked about McCoy corkscrew after that |