Show rharles rH AHLES SOCKER COB the ferit V and best of the gangster novel ests Is now an eminent florida attorney before that socker wai a navy ring champion and also one of the closest students of ring form he is still a keen student of the modern art of self defense which is largely yards in 10 seconds socker happened to be on hand when conn fought conn he said grantland rice as everybody knows is a fine boxer and he is also dead game that ought to be enough for a pound fighter but apparently it today when almost everyone is looking tor a puncher conn simply know how to punch 1 mean the art of punching he relies only on his wrists arms there is no shoulder or y support back of his blows to be a good puncher socker said a fighter must know bow to get in those shoulder and body muscles ive talked about this with bobby jones to hitting k golf ball As you know bobby to his prime was as long as anybody he was far past hagen and off the tee 10 or 12 years ago when they were all at he top bobby relied lot on shoulder and body and hip power to get this distance the same thing Is true of boxing when II 11 comes to the punching side dempsey and tunney when jack dempsey nailed you with a left hook socker added he just nipping you with a wrist and arm motion he had those big shoulder muscles under the shoulder working with the punch he had his whole left side in that wallop the same to a lesser degree is true of gene tunney tunney never had the explosive force that belonged to dempsey that belongs to afe louis but he was a much bet puncher than most ring follow ws know about tunney a natural athlete but a great student of ring science and form he was also a fine student ol 01 the details that produce force gene knew how to get shoulder and body back of his punches camera was six feet seven and he weighed pounds he was a professional strong man but he big enough or strong enough to hurt or even jar anybody with tills wrist and arm swing that had no other support ton cant flick at somebody and do any damage unless of course you use a thumb as quite a few have done but im not speaking of gougers gou gers im speaking of real punchers about billy conn billy conn big enough tor iu joe louis socker rambled on louis can hit too hard with either band but conn should be a better puncher than he Is today the kid is a fine boxer he is fast and he Is dead game but apparently no one has ever taught him how to hit no one has shown him what true balance means when you deliver a punch no one has told him the value of shoulder and back muscles working with hands and arms if they have billy simply learned his lesson lie was able to measure and hit him at will at any spot at any time yet he even rock him if joe bouts louts had delivered any one of those 50 or 60 punches to the chin would still be dreaming of the hour they would have found bis body somewhere lo 10 the upper stands conn Is balu just a kid he still has a lot to learn not about box king but about punching he should punch the heavy bag oftener ot tener and learn how to get in those shoulder end back muscles otherwise he is just going to be another good light heavyweight I 1 doubt that he will ever get much bigger his thin legs show aaa he may reach but hf has enough boxing skill to get his opponent ready tor the kill if he only could get that kill into his right or left hand you cant get that with a flick what about another pittsburgh er harry greb I 1 asked 1 I atil think greh in his prime could beat any heavyweight I 1 ever saw and harry was no great puncher greb was different socker said greb a little hercules was a stick of dynamite he was even faster than conn id say much faster and hed hit you with everything from the laces on his glove to the stool he used between rounds greb knew no rules except to win he was one of the greatest fight en weve ever seen if greb to ht prime had been fighting the other night would have died by drowning in his own blood his face would have looked a horrible sight it have been a ace greb came into the ring with everything but a hand grenade and a machine gun and yet 1 levei aw him hit a low punch he be longed to that old school that kaev all the tricks and how to use them and believe me they bad plenty in the way of tricks |