Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 29 | Glass Knobs

La G 0 I 1 ass a s S I J I Fighters and Who Wills Ru Ruin n Examples Hands by 17 of I Knobs K Rr b I nos Inc Hitting Hands BT nr JO JOE WILLIAMS Why Is It that the th modern bat bat- battier battIer bat battler tier cracks his hands so 80 o often otten T Harry Will Ills Uncle Tom of the ring has ha ha a pair of ot lame lam duke notwithstanding his protestations to the tho th contrary Wills In hammering the de de- de decrepit d Jack Tack Thompson Into submission some torn dAYs day ago took few tw chances protected his hii hands at every turn and rarely our eer rr tried trl d a II full swing It that he h was his hie for tor a Dempsey bout bout- bout Tho The fact Is 18 Wills Will hand handu handi Are arc ar brittle and he h can canno canno canno no I langer land a 0 solid olid punch with with- without without without out suffering himself Mike Mik ho abo lio went wont to Dub Dub- Dublin Dublin lin to win the th light heavyweight championship from n a ha has a II pair of plate plat glass glas cla s mittens It la is I said aid the th Irishman's hands hand are areso areso areno so weak that ho he has hns hsi to pull his bla punches while shadow hadow boxIng Mc has bas ha just lust canceled a fIght WIth Ith Gene Gen Tunney on account of the condition of ot his hi hands hand Wills and u are ar no ex cx There Thero Is I hardly a fighter rIn In game cam today who hunt hant been ben laid up with busted pom Johnny cracked his hla right rl ht hand In Inthe Inthe the fIght Johnny Wilson Wll on broke his left hand on MIlo Mike 0 0 Dow 0 Do ds d's d head Lew Low Is a chroni sufferer from bd badhand hands bands Carpentier broke brok his hla hi hand the tint firSt time tim he h hit Dempsey D mp DONT niT HIT I No fighter will w hurt hlo hi hand If Ith he delivers the th punch properly prop especially In those theae th times time when heavy bandages and nd globes Io ea are al j worn Splintered hands hand were wr un uncommon common In the tho th old even days day T n In inthe the bare bar knuckle d y The Th old V-J V tImers timer apparently made mILde mad more mor of a 11 study tudy of ot the th proper methods method of ot hit bit hitting bitting hit ting They knew better b how to hold their th lr hands handi and nd how to land You certainly wouldn t say ay the theold th old timer timers nero ero weaker hitters That That's all John L could do Fitz- Fitz Fitzsimmons Fitz simmons has er nc had an in equal I us as a t hitter considering his hla light bight poundage Sharkey Mah r and Jeffries were bono bone bon crushers Those These fellows seldom eldom had their hands handl hand in paInts Dempsey Dempley and Leonard are the two finest t hitters ii In the th game to to- to today today day They rhey work ork like Ilk the th old timers tim tim- ers ere r They hold their hands hand at atthe atthe atthe the sight right angle when hen delivering A They on short snap snap- snappy map py py l jolts Jolt rather than Ion long lone weep sweep Ing weepIng sweeping swings No ever put his hands hand to toa toft toa ft a more mor severe ver test than did Demp sey ey In his tights fights with Willard and Firpo giants who outweighed him by many pounds Dempsey Bmp ey knock knock- knocked knocked knocked ed V ivill illard rd down and cut him to ribbons ribbon with vicious punches punch Aft After er or the th fight hi III his hands hand vere w vere ro barely swollen n Dempsey knocked the th massive FIrpo down nine nin times tini and then spent pent several hour hours utter alter the th fight fl shaking hand hands with ith admirers The champs champ hands arent aren't knob knobs