Show TEACHERS MAKE POOR Boxing Instructors Seem Un Unable Unable Unable able to Deliver a Strong Punch Prior to the te poor showing made bj by b McSherry the Yale Yal boxing Instructor against Sailor Burke Friday night Robert Edgren Edgen wrote in the New York Evening World as follows It t Is a well known fact that any pro professional professional fighter has ha it all al over oer the thu th av average average crags amateur The The professionals professionals ex cx experience e pe lice and knowledge of ring trick trickery trickery trickery ery will wi put him through situations where an amateur would be easy ey for a knockout knockout McSherry is a professional technically but without actual actu l ring ex experience experience experience He has been a boxing in instructor instructor for years ear in college Unfortunately a boxing instructor cant cut loose and hit hard Hed lose loseto too to many pupils if I he handed out black blackeyes bade blackeyes eyes So as a general rule men who teach boxing for any length of time for forget forget forget get how to hit hard And hats a knack that is very elusive when once lost Tommy West Vest one of the toughest fight fighters ers era er of ten years ears ago once started a boxing school and taught for several months When he began fighting again agin he found that he help pulling his punches So he got gt together a train training trin ing lag staff of sluggers and fought them themas as hard as a he knew how for a month In course coure of time he regained his wal wallop wallop wallop lop But Tommy told me hed never teach another pupil pupi until he ho retired from Crom the ring for good JIm Corbett on the other hand was wasa wa a boxing master for In years San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco before he fought John L Sullivan and won the worlds championship But Corbett fought frequently while teaching teching and that kept his hand in Even at that he never was wa a hard hit hitter hi hitter ter He was too clever He had too much of the te boxing master In his make makeup makeUp makeup up He was big enough to hit and strong enough He could hit when he was punching a bag ba or a mat but in inthe inthe the ring he instinctively pulled away while landing using the boxers trick of getting away without allowing a counter Sullivan Sharkey Jeffries McCoy Fitzsimmons Ryan Ran Walcott Walcot McGovern McGover and the tho rest of the never lost time teaching boxing They Thy always fought and kept the punch in working order |