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Show II Many Pugilists IE ' Have Weak Hands IK AFTER all. the hands are the thing, - Without them the Ideal fighting Hr face or tho perfect lighting build Is as I naught. And with them the head, tho II power and all tho other requisites of HE the successful ring artist can have but H secondary consideration. HP Battling Nelson, who has stopped Hr more battery charges than any fighter Ht of a decade, had to go into tcmpornr MT retirement not very long ago becauao lj' his maulers gave out. Ho banged Sam- HlU ray Trott so often on the head at i Springfield. O, recently that tho bones olv of his crippled punlshcrs could not HI stand the strain after ten rounds, and Hit he had to stall out tho reat of the HI fight. Just lmagino tho Dane halng Hi to quit on account of his handal Tall: Hb , about the Irony of fate' Most of us Hi c pictured the battler sprawled out over HV flvo feet and a naf canvas, knocked Hi "dead" by a punch. That seemed tho Hf plausible exit of Nelson from the game. B We ilgured ho couldn't stand the val- Hl loplngs forever, oven though he "ain't Hji hardly human." H Hugo Kelly, the Italian middleweight Hlf of Chicago, fought Eddie McGoorty at Hit South Bend, Ind , recontly and took a It beating. The battle was the first go Hr for Hugo In months. He had been Hi nursing a pair of bad hands. Those Hr, aame hands possibly kept Kelly from a Hr title. Ho gave Papke more trouble than Hr an fighter outside of Ketchcl Tho Hi Italian was a cleer fellow, with a cut- Hjt tlrif left hand, who administered more Hr punishment than he rccehed. But ho It had to take periodical layoffs on ac- HlL count of tender hands, w-hlcb were al- Hjc w.ia getting hurt. Hit Until ho Injured his hitters Frank HiL Erne was champion of them all In tho H lightweight dlIslon. He was the pos- H etasor of a tcrrlllc punch, and many of Hi the bones In both hands were npllntered HR at one tlmo or another, causing him Hit nyjch agony While he was generally Hit willing to put nil his steam Into a Hlf blow, despite the pain he knew It would HI bring, In hl3 later career ho didn't H lake as many chances Consequently Hlf a great deal of his effectiveness was H(A lost. Hts Another fighter whoso period of Hjf money making within tho rope? was H lessened by his hands falling him was Hj Bob rit78immons Bob, of course, was H ' old enough to quit when knocked out H by BUI Lang three jears ago. but ha H'. could have purleved with tho gloves for Hi at leaist a year longer but for his flght- lag apparatus It 1& remarkable, how- Hi ever, that FIt?'s hands lasted as long as H thry did. for he was a terrlflo hitter. H If Bob Moha fallB to cop tho mlddle- Hr weight belt he may attribute his failure w In large measure to weak hands. For H tho build of him and the strength. Bob M has unusually frail hands |