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Show : (swinging blow is greatest OF ALL THE BOXER'S DELIVERY "After jrolng to boxing shows for a Bfcw weeks, the patrons of the sport ftfOuU Kt the idea that there never I WSJ such a tiling as :i straight hlow jit Is a rare thing iinwari.yn to see a I boxer who makes n specialty of the v Straight punch. ' says K H . Kaln In I the Philadelphia Record "The young follows who have taken up profes-fjonal profes-fjonal gloe-fightlng during the last le' years all have the idea that thej cin hit a man harder with a straight punch right from the shoulder Bui a greater mistake was never made llTiese boxers all get the notion that ' they have discovered something verj effective when they have learned to hook or to swing But there is where I thev are In error. The swinging blow was used before straight punching 1 w2S practiced It is th.- blow of the natural fialifer and Is used by Di ell rough-and-tumble bruisers Bui when the science of boxing was worked out ! the old-timers in I i I land where crr.ntiflr lm:ing orlgi Kited and was cultivated for many! iyears before It was taken up in the otbe- land, the n. ton of the art Isocn discovered that the straight b!ow tin- q i: i ' -t sinl h- mo si 'effective, and they dropped the twinging punch and left it to th cnrermoncT the f.,. r ny,- -,.-, 0, er nvn w iio fought with their fists in, I the streets or. the fairgrounds or rnre Hacks Old-time boxing masters found that the, had little to fear from the swingers, no matter how I bBrd they c u 1 d hit. and f he v a 1 ? o i learned what is now railed "beating the other fellow to it "' that is. In (Other words, that they could l;nd a I straight li'o s ln?fcre (heir opponent I Could land the swlng-.ng punch, both i men s::vtin:; th'!r hlows at practlc- 1 I ally 'he s'.ne time. The boxer who si hes never given the subjeci aerl us l ' study believes that he enn hit harder W with a swinging punch than he can Mi when he hits straight, rnd when he tiRswings his arm through the air he ril naturally gets that i.'. ". bul it - not aw pcssible to nut the weight of Ui-SjSbody Ui-SjSbody back of a swinging punch to m the same effect thr.t rr.n be done I" Is hitting straight and ?. little study and I pnctlco win demonstrate this fact to M aiy hover wi o ;s in ten sted enough to nh work the problem out. Sullivan Smarted Swing John I,. Sullivan probably did more 9to start the modern craze for the sw inging punch than any other man W In the rinc It Is trm- thnt Sullivan fnund the swinging punch very effee- ! I Eve, but It was due more to the fact , lJ that he tried to land his swln?s oti the point of a man's jaw thai he kr.ocked out so manv of his o Jljnents. In addition to this Sullivan S'l'vas a very strong man, much strong-6 strong-6 er than th.-- aierace of those who j i tried to ptand up against him. but bis I SBBwings were not so effective when he baa . met clever boxers like .lack Burke, DomiDlck McCaffrey and .iim Corbeti , Sullivan could hit hard when he hit Straight, an,i he whipped as manv , wen with straight punches a he did I with swinging blows. Jack Dompsev was lamous for his straight, culling punches, and he whipped swinging fighters bj the score when he was going around the country meeting all omeis f0, h0 S-O,orn niaiched, Ji-alnst men his own size m these al fairs tno.vi of the scrappers be wbuld be pitted against ljoin larger men it is probable that In his ring career Jack Blackburn met a grent,.r rtety of lighters than air of the latter-day pugilists. Blackburn was 0 scientific boxer who rsrelv used al swinging punch He had straight punching down fine and he made a' specialty of short punches He prac-l ticed short punches every chance he gol and be hud developed that stvle to such an extent that he could I knock a man down with a blow that would triivol only six or eight Inches Blackburn bad the greateat contempt for the man who depended on swing-in? swing-in? punches. Onco he saw lohn Wtl-l Wtl-l box In this city, and he said to his manager I would like to get n fight with that Chicago man " Black. i burn s manager replied: "He Is away I too big for you, Jack. One of his blows would hreak our ribs" "He I would neer break any of my ribs, ' replied the negro lightweight, "for 1 would never give him the chance 1 certslnly would like to fight him for I know thai I an heat him "What makes you so sure that you can heat Wille.?'' Jack was asked. 'Because." was his quick response, ''the onl. punches he has are swings, and I can lick am swinger who ever stepped Into the ring ' The met afterward and Blackburn proved that his theor) wa6 right, for he had no trouble beat-' beat-' n Wille, who weighed 190 pounds while Jack then weighed about 138 |
