| Show MISTAKES MADE I IBY BY REEN BOXERS I V Veterans of the Ring Who Have I Kept From I Bruises By Eddie Smith With the great number of oC amateur boxing bouts held In San Francisco co and the short distance contel contests ts held about the ba bar It really reah cems a VOlT very I queer thing that moro more good men are not turned out who can como come along and take lake the tho places of oC the fading pro professional 10 who have held the tho spotlight on the pugIlIstic stage Glago so so long Every Eory weak In the tho ell city across the tho hay a ser cr crlos I Iles los les of eight amateur boxing contests are held by ono one or of the tho four clubs pro promoting that end of the tho sport Every Eer I time one of these series of bouts is hold held It requires Hi 16 neu en to make malto up the card and the boxers conic come and go and now faces are always to be seen soen a act that demonstrates how bow many I young oung men try to mako a success of boxing With all those hundreds of well meaning and Indus Industrious Industrious chaps trying for Cor mane money and fame In the tho game gamo of fisticuffs how however I ever Frayne and Low Powell are the only two who at th present time seem to have an chance chanco to be become become come Of course courso or no attention n Is given ghen these facts b by the average oh ob server serer of oC the tho game but It seems scorns rath rather rathor or er a serious thing to those who fire are closely identified with the tho sport and who arc continually on the lookout for promising material Just at this time lime timea limea a heavyweight with the right sort of stuff In him could make himself rich with a 01 ory few fights fight but since inco Al Kaufman graduated from Crom the I ranks not one has come along who appears to have hao oven oon a lighting chanco i or Of becoming a champion There Thera la i a I reason fa for I aU all this and i it Is in a very ven simple one at that The boxer of at this latter day dar never learns the tho art artof artof of boxing before hols ho I put Into the ring to battle with anyone that the ilie i matchmaker er of a 11 certain club may see fit to Lo match him with The Tho result is that the boxer simply falls Into bad habits or of wild slugging and useless ox ex I and Is often oCten beaten up before I ho has had a fair chance to show what lie he has in him Boxers Enter in HapHazard Fashion With all the tho boxers who are being brought into the game gamo today there thoro Is not ono one of them who has had lessons from a competent instructor or had ad advice vice from a man who Is well versed I In the game gamo of oC fisticuffs The great majority of the boys learn a few fow point pointers I ers els from the fellow who has had a few amateur lights and it IC he Is game and andablo able ablo to take a beating bealing that Is he heIs heis Is required to show before he is put Into the ring with some follow or of his weight to take a chanco To one who knows the value of ho hoto how to box and how to hit It is both pitiful and disgusting to watch the average oung fighter trying to use a straight left punch on an opponent Not ono one in of know how bow and It Is the and most important thing for fora a young oung boxer to learn The first thing the young man tak taking taking ing lessons on a piano plana Is taught is the keyboard and until such time limo as he hc has learned this thoroughly he Is un unfit Ot fit to tackle the Intricacies or of music The straight left leCt is to boxing just I what whal the keyboard Is to the piano plana and before a young man Is Informed that he Is ready to go Into the tho ring he should have hac some knowledge of this hits punch or Of courSe it Is Impossible for all boxers to be good lefthand boxers In fact they are er ery few but with the straight loft left comes the tho good god foot footwork work ivor and the foundation for all other blows Of the boxers turned out from the amateur ranks loda today and In this I mean within the last t two o years cars who have hao shown any ability to use uso this punch Is Tomm McCarthy and lie he used It ii to great advantage on Roscoe Taylor In the preliminary to the tho engagement After Taylor had put McCarthy down clown In the first round and things looked bad for him lie he resorted to no other othel punch except the straight left heft and In a few fel he h had the tho man with the tho hard right hand punch beaten to submission I b by jabbing him him and keeping out of danger from the tho right I Right Swing Is Bad for or Amateurs Amateur The right swing Is one of tim most disgusting things the new starter uses and to sit and watch a young youngster ster In the ring deliberately stand off of several feet from torn an opponent and start n a wild right swing at the other fellows head hoad Is Indeed aggravating to the nina man who knows what that would mean a few Cew years ago when the tho men fought with blows blos Go Godown down own the line IIno or of great lighters such as ag JoC Cans Gans Bob JIm Jef JeffrIes Jeffries frIes Jim Corbett Jack Johnson and aud audeen even een Battling Nolson and try to re remember remember member when you have hao over ocr seen seon ono one of these men lend In with a swinging right punch unless the opponent was helpless and It was sent over oer for Cor the lie I crusher You would be n a Ion bug time to place ono one contest In I which this thing lund had happened Yet the tho young boxer or of today without over oel I giving the tho matter n a thought goes Into thc tue ring and even In the tho first round will start n a wild swing leaving him himself self hopelessly open for the fresh freh Ope op Mistake In Los Angeles In the fight at Los LosI I Angeles started out from his corner cornor to heat the Gorman German with a and anel I tho moment Lila two como come together ho a swing lapke was ivan really realy for just such u a start and ho nailed the Michigander with n a short straight punch before the swing Sol got started This swinging of loft lerl and right punches In the rounds of n a contest Is Often oCton the Ule cause of a mon who is rated as the host best ono being no man cnn can expect to become n a great lighter who Uses nothing else but them 1 if the young man who has ambition to lo become a famous pugilist would his career by learning tho first prin principles I of boxing ho would ho better off orr and would stand Cl a good chance chanco ot or orI I becoming famous and lie tho cauliflower ears an and bruised faces would not nol ho be so evident in 65 Fights Without Bruise Bruso Another thing that bo be an In Inducement for th the young man to loam learn ho be starts Is tho ho fact that low few ii If any bruises are aro to ho be found on the faces facea of men w who o havo hao studied the tho gamo before borore entering on an active en cn reer In the ring Tack Johnson has bas I had Gj 66 lights and some ot of thorn them have hae not been of the e easiest and ct It ItI I would be impossible to find ono one mark marlc markon on him to rove It Joe Gans was 17 oarB In the ring and ho he loft It wIth err little to show that lie ho had beona been a worlds champion Johnnie I known to fame as Young Mitchell add lud ludi i now a candidate for In San II Francisco ought fought some omo warm battles and yet ho has ery Cow fow marks to show an any severe sovere beatings healinGS and In his dB day thO they fought with gloves OPINION STRONGLY FAVORS JOHNSON JOHNSONI I Realization Of Bulk M Makes I Stop and Think By I New York Sept Sopt the tho match gone ono metIng and most of the little local clubs climbs ducking below bolow the surface or of the tho thoI I pugilistic whirlpool there Is little for ye H faithful fan Can to do hut but sit down clown and ponder bonder o r tho result of the next big thing the Ketchel und Johnson assault at gloves I After Ketchel almost lifted Jack OBrien over the tho with punched much and forced the referee to stop the light fight in the third round at Philadel It II seemed that the tho grouter part of the sporting world thought the tho As hind had a royal chance chanco to wrest the tho crown from Lilt shiny pate palo Then came Sloes Steves deplorable showing against Thunderbolt ills His stock took look a long splintery splinter slide Ketchel will enter the ring a one shot eliot with Johnson Most of the tho betting will probably be on just how howlong Ion long I lie he stays s with the black giant Johnsons matinee romp with Al Kauf Kaufman man has hus the fan to that con elusion Whoever bets bels on 00 Ketchel however no matter what whaL the tho odds I will get a great ruin for his mono money Hes the greatest man In the tho to ones coin because ho will vIll light to save that mone money as Ion long as he Is Isable isable able to lift his hands But Bul since ho showing of big strong Al Kaufman against John Johnson son man ninny or of the rooters have havo changed their opinions and thoy sn say that will not be able to win because he will never he be able to over overcome overcome come Johnsons brute bruto strength It sill take mOlo moio than n a heart hearl of oak to cope with the Texan they say October 12 en come just as soon goon as asit asit it wants Wore Were all wallin |
