Show r- r 1 S M J 4 J s 7 F z r ar q Z 1 tl t t M t y f I c J r 1 iT 0 L t p t 7 A Up f e. e Cc y r rI I r aE w r U i i. i i iW ip a y f 4 iJ r p AS Q 4 UJ R W PIL- PIL t N L h nce Exp lins Why Some Fighters Are Able to Survive Terrific Blows t Gluttons for Punishment j and Return to the EVER VER hear the expression a glutton Battling Again While for punishment Also he be t took ok all he had and came back for more Others Seem to jf If you can take a knockout Iwa wallop wallops i p and nd rally to continue in the battle you Succumb Easily Eastly to Less s are what the scientists call a masochist t. t This is a fellow who likes to take tak a Devastating g Attack lacing He gets a kick out of every blow b that that lands o on n him He is stimulated by y U Unable no 1 e to t tC 0 Come C orne Back punIshment A Durant in Wall Street a Bryan in L I t I R I t politics any chap in any walK of life 1 f I who keeps coming back for more is a I f 1 masochist They are at their best when drunk duni S v a q Y v rw 4 x WIt with h t their h. h opponents opponents' punches h hv es W I 1 W k I I 5 S jf J S i y r yr 4 i a S q i i A H rW 6 5 y f fra o I b S k y I y f Jd 1 i f ij ij 1 i f r r 4 d tri t tw Y S r LY t t 0 i r r r 1 i. i y MV l 4 q os F w J F 1 4 i M Y y F J w when hen a s Often tl t fighter i is knocked r. Wit rk r down do n the the m me e n itla Ga J 1 y t 6 i processes of the brain s r r cease to function fun tion but 4 Tf if the mechanical centera center a of the brain has not been it deranged he may struggle to 1 his feet and continue the fight i while virtually unconscious ious f HEN Gene Tunney of the marines 5 W. W WHEN r i sank to the canvas of the ring in Soldier Sol Sol- 1 Bier dier Field ChIcago thousands thousands' of the ther r shrieking shriekIng spectators tho thought Dempsey once once more had the championship in his f. f grasp Right and left smashes to the head i had sent Tunney to the floor In the ther i seventh and he of the r at end long coUnt of nIne the heavyweight champ rose from his knee and managed to back f away from Dempsey's Wicked wea weaving g. g until the bell stepped the chase cr It is ring history that Gene came bactin in the eighth w wick strength and skill quickly returning until his recovery was was was' so complete that when the bout ended Dempsey had been licked a n second time and Gene remained the champion What Is It that hat brings a man up after l he has been knocked off his pins by the i terrific mauling of an adversary How does fighter after fighter survive the fierce punishment of a ring battle j and return to the fray after each bell as asa a i fresh and vIgorous as after a morn morning g shower S Why does one blow sometimes send a afir aj fir j man sprawling on the floor beyond the count of ten while others take worse vorse pummeling and never nevel pass out y yr r h RESE ESE questions were put tb promInent I members of the medical profession f who are also widely known as fight fans h Their answers rev reveal al some striking facts 10 rY To regardIng the nature and the human 2 JY r quality of prizefighters Successful fighters enjoy t the e punishment punish punish- l ment the L Baron they get get says Dr A. A medical medica dIrector o the Pennsylvania yr J State Boxing and a student l of mental diseases Otherwise they would never stand standup up under the beat beat- t r ing they receIve during the course of a ai t. t i contest i r f Prime boxers are masochists They like to take a a. lacing They take blows F like a thirsty man takes liquor A r l 1st is a person who is thrilled led by the y blows which bounce aU all over him He t S gets a kick out or 01 every punch that f 1 lands on him Deep down in his nat nature re Is the need 1 v l to be stimulated by punishment lie He is proud f the fac that hl he can take tak it it When he wades in inas as fist after fist finds a mark on his bod body th the masochist says joyfully Come on do your worst I can j takE that and more Instead of W Wearing aring him out the punches seem to stimulate stimulateS t S him t I U If youve you've been to prizefights you have often seen men drunk with punches really groggy with witt punishment And then suddenly they seem to get a fresh infusion infusion in- in fusion of cf vitality and energy an ar arm flashes bes out with power behind It and an opponent takes take the count and the theL L 7 5 5 1 FI Y do crowd never gets get done talking about the wonder of the comeback What apparently happens is that hat the theman theman man pepped up by punishment is stimulated stimulated to such a degree that the explosive force of the stimulation gives s him th the strength to land t r. haymaker r on the theother the theother other man in the tle ring NO MAN can reach the top of the fighting game g-ame if he is not a masochist to a degree He must be able ablo to take punishment a. like it Of f course there is danger In extremes here as in everything else A man taking t too o much punIshment is liable to lay himself open to a knockout or the stimulation of the punches he has taken may wear off before before be- be fore he can use its force and then the reaction weakens him and he Is too tired to finish off his opponent Another point is that these men are never wholly masochists Besides the kIck they get out of taking punishment they must also have the desire to inflict It Scientists call this sadism after tie Marquis de Sade who In hs his notorious memoirs told of his uncivilized pastimes When a fighter has acc the stimulating force of blows which have landed upon him he Is at the same time begetting the desire to hurt his opponent The constant pummeling stirs the wish to retaliate and inflict pain and the combination of the second draft of energy energy en- en ergy coupled with t. t touch of sadism Is what gives force to the knockout blow which often lies In the fist of a battered fighter All other things thing being equal the masochist is usually the most successful fighter but of course if he he- heis' heis Is' Is Isa a stupid boxer or a poor ring general he may be beaten by one who can take less punishment punishment punish punish- ment but who knows better how to In- In It To the he eyes of the undiscerning Public fighters like Tunnel and Dempsey seem to be miles apart in their n natures tures but both men rose to tc the top of 01 their professIon profession pro pro- by virtue of the common fact that they can take punishment and like It Tunney may be an intellectual and Dempsey a roughneck but they they are both botn masochists to a great degree I You might never suspect It under Dempsey's pugilistic tic exterIor but pe Ie Is a very emotional person H He hid hides s a a reservoir of feeling fe Ung which if It had been properly developed might have hae made him a prominent figure in fields where feeling and imagination n count most Watch a novice in the ring He wades in without science eager to hit and not caring if he Is 15 hit In return He backs out of a clinch With fists flying The cheers heers of his friends drive him on to toI tol I l' l r rI 1 I a c r rY 4 Benny Leonard was a pugilist who possessed pos pos- the fighting heart that unbreakable spirit which kept him battling regardless of oC the punishment he recci received d reckless expenditure of his strength The effective life of a fighter is rarely more than ten years and If the novice keeps up this wasteful way of never gets to the top This Is where brains and experience begin to have value The Theman Theman man man learns to be calculating to conserve his energy not to take too many punches unless he can return better ones in exchange exchange ex- ex change and this control of the brain Is necessary to husband the strength of the trained fighter When he learns to to control his movementS movements move move- mentS then the combination of masochIsm Ism which makes it possible possible- for him to take punIshment and the spur spur of s which impels him to punish his opponent makes him one of the greatest of fighters standpoint the question of thiS thiS' FROM 1 courage rarely enters in inthe the discussion discussIon discus discus- sIon as a 3 factor to be reckoned with It Itis Itis is not bravery makes hIm fight on but masochism and sadism But when an anold anold old hand and at the the game deliberately lays himself open to one punch which he knows will ill hurt In order to give another then the element f coo age may be im- im But the average lighter who can go on for round for round after round and not know when tie ne s s lIcked doesn't know It hurts him and he has a kind of body able and willing to take the grueling ij wear and tear of the 1 prize r I z e r ring 1 n g wi without wincing Dr John B B. Deaver t who Is a surgeon of international In- In fame and andI Chas I has been called to the t White House for cons consultation con con- s upon critical occasions has a ringside ringsIde ring ring- sIde seat at every Important important Im- Im fight When Dempsey put Tunney down In the seventh the champIon was not knocked out says Dr Deaver I sat close enough to touch th the canvas I could see Tunney's eyes He could have risen to his feet before the count of nine but he preferred to take that long in order to to recover as much strength as possible possible pos pos- sible before resuming the battle What What happened to Dempsey later shows thab Tunney was not knocked out In Inthe Inthe the excitement of the struggle fighters dont don't know they are hurt They dont don't reel feel the pain They seem Insensitive to to blows which would cause an ordinary man to howl with anguish When I saw Tommy Loughran fight Lomski I was rooting for Tommy because because be- be cause he was from Philadelphia but when Lomski lifted him off of his feet and sent him to the floor I thought Tonu Tommy iy was Vas done when I saw the boy t turn rn half over with one leg rising high 1 in 1 the air Then Loughran Lc took another rap and after thesE knockdowns he came back and gave Lomski th the beating ot of his life It takes a fighting heart to absorb punishment punishment pun pun- oneself from the floor after knockdowns wand then to go in inaM ans aM finish finish off an opponent Fighters so 50 much iu in physical powers and stamina that it Is to I explain plain just what ait It Is that gives one fighter the fortitude to fight on and letS another succumb after a few taps taps' taps by his contestant The mechanism of the various parts parts' of Hof the brain which sends the messages to the muscles Is not ye yet completely understood understood under under- stood and when you have the complex problem of separating courage from strength and physical and the places where the blows have land landed d and theIr upon nerve centers It Is J Successful fighters are merely spurred on by the punishment they receive and hard blows pep them up to greater endeavor The danger is that a fighter may mayre receive re a sleep producer before h hhas he has h a chance to toland toland land one himself I hardly possible to make a statement which will be entirely accurate Any lover of boxing who saw land a blow in his opponents opponent's solar plexus as he did on Firpo knows what a disastrous disastrous trous punch this is A man just buckles up there is momentary cOllapse of strength and If the fighting punch can be landed then it is easy to end the struggle Seated by Dr Deavers Deaver's side at many great battles is usually Dr John A. A Boger also a prominent surgeon connected connected con con- with st. st Marys Mary's Mar s 's Hospital who offers an explanation which is easily understood understood un- un by laymen of why men can fight on after knockdowns is the seat The forepart of the brain Dr Boger of the mental faculties says the motor The top of the head covers centers and the base of the brain controls con con- and passions ThIs is trois the feelings roughly the distribution of the sections controlling movement and conduct To attempt to understand what happens happens hap hap- Uze that the top of the pens one must re realize motor centers operates the braIn the mot r mechanical movements of the body Ashook A shook shock from a boW blow may put the thinking It may be temporarily temporarily tem tem- brain out of of actiOn In a a condition lIke In a fog or cells which brain the sleep The doors of world have been open out upon the slammed shut mechanical at the same BUT section continues to function An And where a man is apparently ap ap- we have the condItion in a daze but he keeps keeps- on hick making making mak- mak ing the motions of fighting which he went out control made before his mental c of operation With punishment punishment pun pun- drunk who are Fighters and andward and andward punch keep their fists up mechanical the ward 01 off blows because from the is aware operator of the brain these motions opponents opponent's movements that the same time are necessary At the prod prod- are urgently passions and feelings who ha ling the body bode to beat the man onan done this to the te other part o the brain of the fog While this is going on the and soon mental lode Is cle clearing ring of aU fighter Is once more in po his faculties and meeting his opponent wIth his his his' former skill and energy which may Another point to co topsider ider for the layman illuminate situation the cells brain is in th the comparison of the battery with the cells of a storage and drains the power FIghting blow strength of the cells The sudden is a unconscious whIch makes a man empties the shock which completely is short short cir cir cells The human current tuned at high voltage and the reservoir I of muscular power and tenacity la is empty Everybody who owns a a. radIo set knowl that weak batteries will not last as s long as' as duty heavy duty units and some sonie batteries generate current more qu quickly than others ThiS is also true of th the human body Some fighters come back faster and stay on their feet longer because their batteries bat bat- teries have more voltage to begin with find and they regenerate energy more quickly after a sudden drain Another point to remember about knock Is that while the shock on the frontal lobes will not put a man out of ofa a action tion so long as his motor have cells cells have not been affected a shock which affects the mechanical section will Rill stop the human machine even if 11 the brain u eager eager to make the body go on fighting Such explanations are physical and andare are offered so that the method of bodily operation may be understood but from long experience at prizefights I believe that the human spirit is a a. great factor in the success of pugilism The man who j has stamina and endurance needs a also o the unconquerable spirit to win vin LEONARD once told me My BENNY opponent may be heavier but Ive I've got It here tapping his heart and I believe that is why Benny has been a great fighter and has been able to put it over heavier men Of course a fighter needs skill and strength but he must have an unbreakable unbreakable able spirit Recently a boy named Ig Ignatia Ignatia Ig- Ig natia came to me for the treatment of ofa ofa a broken hand He refused to keep it in splints more than ten days He wanted to get back to the ring Although only fighting in local clubs that boy has the stuff tha that wins ins My friends think Im I'm a 1 wonderful fighter he s id and I have great ambitions for the future Dr Deaver and I like to sit close to the ring because we want to b be near enough to watch the eyes of the fighters We usually sit so close we can reach out and touch the canvas The eyes tell the story of what goes on Inside the brain They reflect the emotions and phOtograph photograph phOto phOto- graph the processes In the cells that direct the body A great drama is often acted out inthe in 1 the few moments of a ring battle when when or defeat depends upon a decision deci- deci deci- deci decision sion made while the body aches from the |