Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-25

someone ready to separate US before we
had come to a conclusion. Otherwise
we would have lost our early elemen-
tary practice, most essential to pol
ished pugiism. Sometimes it was
a dear old lady, who beat US
with her umbrella into hasty
retreat Sometimes it was a young
one, who boxed our ears and called US
nasty little beasts, until we SUNK away.
Sometimes it was the approach OF our
stern parents that sent US scampering.
Usually it was the men who formed the
circle about US. They enjoyed the fun
and did not want to see it terminated
too soon, prefering anumber Of pitched
battles to a decisive one. They knew
we'll that il
JoE's NOSE WAS BLEEDING,
he would soon seek revenge, and II
Jlm's mouth was damaged he would not
wait for it to heal, but would watch for
a chance TO get even with the boy who
had hurt him.
BOYS and men have fought since the
time Cain killed Abel. Differences OF
Individual opinion have since time i'm
memorial been settled by force. The
final argument has always ended In q
fight. Men and boys are still made of
the same stuff, but they have advanced
from seeking to conquer through the
aid OF the nearest thing at hand TO re-
sorting to their fists. ! sm speaking, OF
course, Of individual quarrelinR. The
club has been substituted by the ter
rors OF chemistry's destructive agents
in the rows between rstions, but 1t has
been cast aside by those who would set
tie personal grievances, and there is
to-day as much art in the handling OF
ones hands in combat as there Is In the
management of the machines OF war.
Since the days when Joe and l
fought with our bare fists, which were
then the fashion for even professional
pugilists, the laws have grown stern
and the officials sterner, and we are re-
ouired to wear four-ounce pillows. The
fact is that the glove of to-day protects
the hands and permits harder blow
than the naked hand, which cuts, but
does not batter.
When Joe and 1 were boys the pro-
fessional held himself in cramped,
doubled up position, and trusted to
rushing and fighting. To-day the fight
er looks upon the followers OF the old
school as soft marks, for the science has
advanced, and there are side steps,
guards and feiDts that make the men OF
the former style of pugiism powerless
to attack and open TO constant punish
meht. A little skill is better than
great amount Of strength, for power
misdirected leads to disaster.
DAVID DAzED GoLIAH
before the giant could reach him, and
then stepped up and did him. The little
Romans, with their short swords,
through their skill as stomach punchers
conquered a world Of bigger men than
they. A mad bull rushes to his ruin,
when the torrsdor steps aside and
labs him. Brains invariably get the
best of Drawn, and so the pugilist,
whose acts are directed by his head.
fighter. There are tricks In all trades.
AS the prestidiRitator fools those who
watch him, so the scientific pugillst be-
wilders his opponent There is hard
work In both cases, bat it is the head
that governs. Experience has taught
US thousand tricks. and so it is that the
fighter Of to-day IS superior to the one
of the past.
The days Of the sluEger are gone, for
a clever man can best the plunging pu-
gilist with either straight from the
shoulder or parabolic counters, and
when be wants TO he can dance aside
from the rhinoceros-lIke rushes, and.
turning, rend the enemy before be re-
coVershimself. This Is one re- l be-
lieve that every man shor erstand
something about the :, being
successful IN q scufP Tho can
dance we'll has mir law OF
pugilism in his said
that ''he who r. i've I'll