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Show DEMPSEY'S FAVORITE "RABBIT PUNCH" REGARDED AS ILLEGAL Is Jack Dempsey a foul tighter? Some say the heavyweight champion cham-pion is getting away with murder when it comes to the technicalities of Ihe game, writes Harry Hochstadter In the Chicago Post. These certain "some" contend that Tack Dempsey Is a great champion, can hit like "sin," and all that, but he would not be half as effective if referees would bar "the rabbit punch." There are many who say that if Dempsey continues to use the rabbit punch he will wake up to find he has been disqualified out of the heavyweight heavy-weight championship of the world. Infraction of Rules. There is no doubt that the rabbit blow is an infraction of the Marquis of Queensberry rules. Milboum Say-lor Say-lor used it with great effect for a long while. He scored quite a number of knockouts before his opponents got wise to his trick. Saylor was disqualified dis-qualified for using the rabbit punch In Australia. For the benefit of those who don't know what the rabbit punch is, we of fer the following lucid explanation: "A sock back of the neck with the fist and forearm. Dempsey gets his opponent into position for the rabbit punch with a left hook to the body. This doubles up the victim and then Dempsey steps to the right and lets go back of the neck." To our own knowledge Jack Dempsey Demp-sey pulled this same stunt against Homer Smith at Racine one night when he won in the first round. He also repeated in his first battle with Bill Brennan at Milwaukee in the second sec-ond round, when he pulled Bill forward for-ward and down, at the same time twisting Bill's ankle. Punch fJot Needed. Dempsey doesn't necessarily have to win all his battles with the rabbit punch. Against Billy Miske the champion cham-pion just let go blows in any old direction, di-rection, and they found their mark. Again, when Dempsey won the heavyweight heavy-weight title from Jess WiMard at Toledo, To-ledo, Big Jess was so tall and big that Dempsey never had a chance to use the rabbit blow. |