Show I Mike MITI ue Car Carries ies I r i Mighty Po Powerful 1 I Wallop ot By JO JOE WILLIAMS Mike l 1 who has just accepted ac ac- ac i a match with Micke Mickey Walker i on January 7 7 discovered his best punch the first time he ever unleashed unleashed un un- leashed an angry fi fist t. t It was in in his first fight I The punch is a right hand under the heart The Iris Irishman shoots it I straight The mechanics 0 of of- the punch punch are are somewhat like like Carpen- Carpen I tiers tier's noted stra straight t right hand ext except ex- ex that the Frenchman fires I the j jaw w. w eX 1 for fOl l e holds the worlds world's light ight heavyweight championship He won it in Dublin on St. St Patricks Patrick's day fighting a against a black nan nian That explains C everything sneer sheer critics is not held in in high c esteem as os a a. fighting man by the boys who write pieces for the press The Irishman has been indicted on all all' counts ranging r fro from u cowardice coward coward- ice ico to rank inefficiency y The truth is he is a pretty fair fighter But I is not nol a light heavyweight Actually he is a middleweight I saw him himon on the scales at White SulPhur Sulphur Sul Sul Sul- Springs last summer and he weighed exactly 1 2 pounds can make the middleweight middle middle- weight limit easier than Greb the Harry man who holds the title But about Mikes Mike's first fight and the er discovery of his most dependable dependable depend depend- able from pun punch h. h He hadn't been over o Ireland vcr very long IonS and was working in a packing plant His triple triple coated coated brogue was was' the tho subject subject sub sub- of much broad ridicule his fellow v workers most of among amonS' whom were Italians I Aw take that cabbage out of i 1 your your mouth and talk U Unite I States snapped one Jos Joseph ph h Ma Marino 2 rino an prize ex-prize fighter by by- byr rece r rec H Hand and a tough looking mug by sight A fight st started Mr l ii is no no cabbage in his mouth It W was hunk of plug cut and ond of ot ayer ave high order if jf you ou must know 1 M Me T Tigue gue was as as knocked down dawn t Jc Upon arising Mr 11 o out t with a a straight right hand j t the heart and Marino dropp dropped was some minutes before he got x That fight cost me my Job M lates later l I joined a a. a agy gy YiH G Georgo McFadden wasl instructor He taught nie t. t punches a 0 straight left on 1 1 t hand under the heart I wa was a ama amato ato to find that I used the heart pu naturally Just as McFadden tax taut a it it 0 The heart punch has been i Tigue's ace in most of his fi fiand fig and he has been in l more t thaw than hundred He stopped Johnny B man George Robinson Gene BI sau and Battling Ortega all aU t tw tr boys with right hand punches der del the ticker and he boon b bd lin Battling Siki on the canvas with it in Dublin Jack Britton tells me a der del the heart is the tho most darn dam blow a boxer can land says 1 Tigue I deliver the punch going into a clinch Most l b bo fall faU into a clinch without hi hiTh hit Th They use it if for a a. rest I mamy n ma nam mak m my best punch l is married 32 33 years year and has three children all an giris girl gir is an example of what pers yoked ok d with limited ability will wily Regardless of what the critics t of f him he is the worlds world's lighth light he 11 weight champion and and no no 0 o going to take it away front from until he gets ready to defend crown has a bank roll 1011 of rf It will take at ar least to lure lur him into a decision a for the title Meanwhile l Ji Jre pick up many stray purses purses' ing inS from 20 2000 O to to J he quits he will h have e at least And that's pretty important dl fora or a ham hanl |