Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-25 | Page 4 | Kilbane Compares Old and New Pugs

KILBANE COMPARES OLD AND NEW PUGS I By Johnny K Kilbane Featherweight Champion H question often orten has hag been asked T THE whether present day fighters of the type of ot Jack Dempsey or Georges I Carpentier who clash dash July 2 for forthe forthe the heavyweight championship could blI m up ip under the old time finish fights tights of ot half halt a hundl-ed hundl hundred rounds or more Take the great John JohnL I L L. Sullivans Sullivan's win over Jake Kilrain in Sev sev- e five enty-five rounds back x in 1889 1539 for example y or the one sixty round draw that Jim Corbett fought with Peter Jackson in 1891 1591 at Frisco a Either Dempsey or Georges could go o that hat route today today but but fans tans would be treated to toan toan t t tan an altogether different style stile of fighting from that they will see see- at Jersey City And it would prove far less Jess interesting II When a a. fighter goes goesL j L battles into I a f finish with ff fight extreme tt he A caution Not a surplus step is taken I not a II blow is wasted He conserves all his energy for tor the gruelling rounds rounds' that are arin In t to a come short h t l later fight it t such as that ached sched- j ulE l for Dempsey and Carpentier bothmeR both men mert wade in and fight from the time the bell rings knowing that there will willbe be at most only n thirty six I m minutes i of l actual tu fighting and that r they need Je Jea save saveno saveno a no more than enough stamina to carry them over that comparatively short time COASTERS GET EDGE The inclination of a a. boxer to save sate steam for the windup of his fight Is gh ghI gho d I shown by rth the experience x e of Eastern boxers box box- o ers era on the Pacific coast a In and around I San Francisco I fights h usually UI are ached sched- 1 for onlY four rounds Eastern i fighters used to fighting twelve or fifteen 1 teen rounds step into the ring and nd start t oft off slowly I from force rc of 1 habit Coast boxers familiar with the four four- round bouts are off like Uke chain lightning with the bell And they keep their fists ming flying continuously with the result that they the often oCten have the bout won on points before the stranger on the coast wakes up to the tact fact DECIDED DIFFERENCE A short short fight fight means hammer and tongs fighting a long fight means a slow and measured study That's That s why I say sav that taking Into consideration even the different fighting style of ot Dempsey and Carpentier the Jersey battle from the fans fans' viewpoint will be a better and livelier one than I were the long Ions drawn out battles of ot bygone bygone bygone by by- gone days davs