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Show ATTACK OF DUNDEE PROVES BEWILDE1GN 1 Fighting Tactics of Italian Lightweight Most Unique in Ring. Johnny Dundee's ring tactics are the freakiest that the human eye ever beheld. be-held. A writer once declared the New York lightweight, when in the ring, reminded re-minded him of "a whirling dervish witli the seven-year itch." The description rlta Dundee, but It doesn't convey u complete idea of his tricks. Words are futile. Dundee never lias been knocked out. That is not surprising. The strange fact is that one or another of Ids foes actually have been able to hiE him. Those who have watched Dundee's aeroplane and submarine stunts wonder how it is possible possi-ble for a man to get in a punch on tho flying body of the Italian battler. Dundee Is one of the few men in tha ring who resort to the leaping punch. But he is a master at it. If lolled in Ids "land" attack Dundee begins flying around, always In the general direction of his rival, and always pelts his opponent oppo-nent with a few "bombs" before dropping to "earth" again. Dundee's Attack Bewildering. K And then Dundee varies things, and further disconcerts his opionent by a few dives. He bends low, with his head near the floor. Of a sudden, lie hurls himself at his man and sends out as many torpedoes tor-pedoes as he can, still bent ewer, but with his chin resting in a protective way on his chest. "Dundee is the toughest nfrd I've ever faced," declares Benny I,eonard. "It is utterly impossible to measure him for a punch, and you don't know one second where he'll be the next. For afl of his 0 attacks, he assumes the same low crouch. You figure he is coming m low and you get ready with an uppercut. But Dundee 'crosses' you by jumping into the air and you lind that, Instead of using an uppercut, you have to resort to an overhead over-head swing to reach him. "The next time he crouches you figure he either will do a leap or a dive. You get ready to zip him with either an upper or an overhead wallop and he has fooled you again by coming in on 'land' and standing up. ' "Other fighters have peculiar styles, but none is like Dundee. You can figure out in advance each move that some will make, but you are helpless when it comes to "doping" out the Dundee attack. There's no way of doing ft. I sometimes wonder if Johnny himself knows a second in advance just what he will do." f Lacks K. O. Wallop. Dundee might he the world's champion today if he possessed a Morpheus blow. But he doesn't. He Is a line defensive fighter, and, because of his puzzling ring tactics, has been able to shade the great bulk of his opponents. But his record la almost devoid of knockout victories. Dundee began fighting in 1911, and up to the end of 1915 he had mingled in al-. most 100 battles. Y'et, over that stretch of time, the record shows that he has scored but three knockouts, and some of his foes, it must be remembered, were little more than jokes. In 1912 he knocked out Ty Cobt) no relation to Ty of Detroit in the first round. In 1913 he landed a sleep producer on Jack White, and then, after a two-year two-year interval, pasted Young Drummle hard enough to win for him his third K. O. victory. Comparing Dundee's record with that of the other fighters of more qr less prominence promi-nence in the lightweight division, shows him up as the weakest hitter of the crowd. None of the promoters has made such an insignificant showing in the walloping line. But Dundee's failure in this line does not detract from the fact that he is the freakiest warrior In the annals of the ring; the hardest man to hit that ever was pitted against a foe. And to this. JT probably, Dundee owes the fact that he ranks today among the best men in hi3 class. 1 |