The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-03

Rocap of the Schuylkill Navy A.. c., and
James Dawson, of Philadelphia, should be
included in the list of referees whose judg-
ment can be depended upon. In general
suffers little from bad decisions. They are
much fewer than the public is led to be-
lieve.
A good deal is said about foul fighting.
lieve in prompt disqualification for inten-
tional vicious fouling. | don't take very
much stock in what is called shoulderinR.
i is hard to do any damage that way. Pat
with Jim Butler. I didn't see the battle,
but / know Cahill's style very well, and !
am inclined to believe that his real in
~tention was to get close to his man in
order to deliver his favorite blow, which ID
a right hand swing on the jaw given at
close quarters and With a peculiar lift OF
the body.
Butting il 9 dangerous practice, and
should disqualify any fighter who does it
with malice. Another bad foul is the elbow
trick. It is worked at the breaking of a
olinch, sometimes with q simple "jab,' OF
hurt by this trick in a fight I would GER
tainly give him the decision.
The pivot blow generally bears To
Blanche's name now. though it is really
Jimmy Carrolls. He claims that he hits
with the "heel Of his hand" as the phrase
ID, anu OF course CQal Is perfectly 1alr. !
am not intimating that no doea not. But
there are fighters who use the elbow in this
way, and they should never be allowed to
win by it. A good referee can tell whether
q punch with the elbowis accidental or not.
Low hitting should always be watched.
The Birmingham blow is an ugly foul. Il
10 u swinging upper cut, ostensibly for the
nit of the stomach but really aimed low.
The referee, if he knows anything about
boxing, can readily detect this soft of work,
and he should stop it right away. There's
nothing in this style OF hitting, md it a
man who knows better uses it, he il trying
to foul. A man who commits a deliberate
am referee I'll please him by letting him
quit for I'll decide against him as soon as
his intentions are revealed.
In closing I wish to eay = word about
professionalism in the amateur ranks. 1t
seems to me that tho best way to got rid OF
ing league Of America. Ihs A. A.. u. is
handling too much, with its outdoor sports
and other varieties of athletics. Boxing
gives opportunities enough for an organiza-
ton devoted to that alone. The entries in
contests should be limited to representa-
tiyes Of clubs with an unimpeachahlc repu-
tation and standing, such as tho New York
Athletic club, the schuylkill Navy, the Chi
cage Board of Tiade club, the Detroit Ath
letic club. the Boston Athletic association,
tho Southern Athletic club of Now Or
leans, the Olympic club of San Fran
cisco. The name of tho club
should DO q sufficient guarantee that its
representative is n genuine alnateur. There
should DO men who nre boxers to tnke
charge OF such matters, and to pass upon
~sntrics. Not everybody who has had a
hand in snch matters in the A.. A. U. has
been fitted by experience to do it.
by some such organization rs / have suQ-
gssted the amateur ring could DO purified;
and we should DO able to get
some FIRST rate men into it that now stand
nloof. ] do not wish to appear az a fault
that has to do with the srort to which
have devoted most of my attention for a
good many yearH. as straight aud square
and genuine us human nature will allow.
MloHAEL DONOVAN.
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