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Show VERY LITTLE NEW IN PRIZE FIGHTS Same Punches, Dodges and Tricks Resorted to in tho Olden Time. A series of pictures taken from old English publications, and showing how the champions of long ago did battle, has lately been printed In a New York paper. The pictures, when closely studied stu-died by critics of the ring, reveal many surprises, tho chief surprise of the lot being the fact that many of the alleged al-leged new blows of today were practiced prac-ticed by Crlbb, Spring, Molincaux and other stars of days long gone by. When Crlbb knocked Mollneaux out In one of the most desperate battles of tho olden time the final blow. If the pictures pic-tures are correct, landed most accurately accurate-ly upon the point of the Jaw, and was a clean-cut straight left, following a hard short right for the body. The descriptions of these combats, too, show that, despite the immense amount of wrestling, there was a vast deal of clever ln-flghtlng, and that tho fighters fairly loved to come to close quarters and bang away In red-hot rallies ral-lies of tho kind which delight a crowd so well today. The old-time boxers, judging from their pictures, wero all of tho short, stoggy type. Billy Stlft, the well-known well-known middle-weight, is built like many, of them, while tho very largest of tho old English champions were on the pattern of Tom Sharkey. Few of them scaled over ISO pounds, though their portraits show them to have been men of gigantic muscles and presumably presuma-bly enormous strength. Jim Jeffries, therefore, would have been right at home among them. He would have been actually stronger than any of tho English stars, and his superior su-perior bulk would have given him three aces In every fight upon the turf. Imagine the monstrous Jeffries in battle on the sod with a man weighing perhaps 176 pounds! About two falls would be enough to squash the life right out of the victim, and Jim would not even havo to hit him! |