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Show (Continued from Page Two.) STILL HOPE FOR LUTHER M'CARTY New York, Aug. 21. It was the ceneral opinion of those who saw Luther McCarty in bis strenuous struggle with Jim Stewart last week that the man from Missouri will 3'et make good. His one fault is that he has not learned to hit In good form. There is no reason apparent why ho should not be able to correct this shortcoming. He is "not handicapped with an excesB of fatty tissue, as Carl Morris was McCarty's muscles are of tho proper, snappy kind required In a boxer, but ho throws Ins lists around altogether too carolesslj at present , r 4 Instead of measuring his distanco and shooting his flat to the mark, he lunges In wildly with extended arms He nover counters, but wants to do all the leading. No doubt, over-anxlcty to make a good Bhowlng had something to do with his wlldness. He has one good punch a straight left that can be easily developed into a dangerous blow. His trouble in delivering it was that he failed to turn the palm of his glove upward, so that the knuckles could take full effect. Overworks Straight Blows. Most novices are inclined to use swinging blows to excess, but Mc Carty, on the contrary, seems to overwork over-work the straight ones. Straight hitting hit-ting is usually the hardest knack to acquire, and McCarty's tendency o favor this style would not bo much of a mistake If ho only shot out hie blows straight from the shoulder with plenty of snap But he is inclined to start tho blow before he gots In range, consequently It is spent bofore it reaches the mark McCarty might do a lot better If he changed from hid rushing stylo and sot himself for his blows. While boxing Stowart he was continually In motion, oven almost running at times In his haste to annihilate an-nihilate his, opponent. For this reason he was unable to brace his feet and got a good purchase. McCarty's lack of polish and ring generalship Is no sign that he has not the makings of a real star. He should show marked Improvement In every bout as soon as he gets over the notion that he must win In the first round. Chance for McCarty. That McCarty, with a record of but a dozen or so houta with other novices, nov-ices, should not becomo discouraged simply bocause he failed to stop an experienced man like Stewart, la Bbown by the records of overy boxer who ever attained championship In any class. It took Jack Johnson seven years of battling, during which he met scoreH of fighters of all calibers, bofore bo-fore winning the championship from Tommy Burns. Burns had beon fighting fight-ing flvo years before he laid claim to the post" of honor loft vacant by tho retirement of Jim Jeffries. Joffrio6 was something of an exception, ex-ception, as ho had only been fighting three vears ueforc grasping the crown then held by Bob Fitzslnimons. But Jeffries won that fight moro because of his immense physical advantage over Ruby Robort than bocause of hb superior skill. It was not until ho had been In the ring five years that ho reached his beBt form. FltzBtmmons had beon fighting for flvo years in America and several moro In Australia previous to coming to this country before winning the tltlo from Jim Corbott Corbctt boxed laB a professional six years before de feating Champion John L. Sullivan. Corbett also had considerable experience experi-ence as an amateur before taking up tho professional end of tho game. Same With Bntam3. To all the other classes down to the bantams the same rule applies. Stanley Stan-ley Ketchel took the boxing world by storm when he Jumped from obscurity by defeating Joe Thomas, yet Ketchel had been gathering experience in minor bouts for four years bofore burstlnK forth a shining star. Frank Klaus, who claims the middleweight title at tho present, did not attract attention at-tention until he had been in the gamo five years, when he stood off Ketchel In a six-round bout No attention was paid to the ring exploits of Mike Gibbons until he came to New York last fall and began his sensational boxing. But Gibbons had been porforming In tho rings of the middle west for five years without doing anything out of the ordinary. It took Ad Wolgast four years of hard fighting to win his title of lightweight champion. Johnny Kllbane wan five years in acquiring tho skill that enabled en-abled him to outpoint Ahe Attoll In a bout for tho featherwolght championship. champion-ship. Johnny Coulon had beon In the ring five years before ho laid claim to and obtained recognition as the champion bantamweight. From the foregoing It can be seen that champions of the ring are not turned out In a day. In the ordinary course of events It should take something some-thing like five years before a McCarty or a Palzer could be developed into a. champion. But the present situation In tho heavyweight class Is different In moro than one respect to that of former tlmos. In the days of Sullivan, Corhett, Fltzslmmons and Jeffries, hlghrdasr. heavies wero plentiful. Also there was no white hope problem, for the simple reason that no negro was oven allowed to try for tho championship. Nowadays high-class heavyweights of experience have disappeared altogether alto-gether and a trlol of dark-complexioned warriors are disputing the title with a fourth. |