The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-03
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Oppose Horton Law,

Oppose Horton Law.
Apropos Of the anti-fight agitation In
Gotham and the threatened war on
the Horton law, it may comfort the de-
voices of pugilism to know that they
do not lack sympathizers along the
powers that be in other lands, says the
Inter Ocean. Recently an Australian
magistrate was called upon to decide
as to the legality of a glove contest
which had taken place within his bali
wick. The gentleman who represented
the reform committee was questioned
closely by the justice, who, it may be
remarked, is himself an expert boxer
and admirer of the manly art, as to
what prize fight really consisted of.
/ Did the complainant know what
| knock out is?''
Yes" was the reply: when one of
| the contestants is knocked out of
ring"
Was there a Knockout in the pres
| ent instance?
The complainant did not know, but
believed that one of the men was said
to have out-pointed his opponent and
was accordingly declared the winner.
Then the magistrate inquired if the
members of the reform committee un-
derstood the boxing game. He replied
but had very good idea Of wha: the
rules, etc, were.
Upon being asked to define the mean
ing of an uppercut, he replied that an
uppercut was blow administered upon
| the upper lip. The magistrate i1nmedi-
ately dismissed the case, stating that 1t
was evident that the reform representa-
tive did not know what he was talking
about.
AS a matter of fact there are few peo-
pie outside of the regular patrons Of
the prize ring who comprehend the true
meaning of "knock-out' and the way
in which such an event is brought
about. Al a fight before local club
the other night a spectator, who was
| new to the proceedings, sat watching
burly pair of gladiators who were eX-
changing rights and left swings with
out much regard to science and land
ing continually on each others jaw
L have always heard" he observed
to an d-timer, that blow on the
jaw will knock any man out. How is
it that neither Of those fellows are
troubled by those punches to any ex-
tent?"
The reason, of course. was that,
| though many of the blows reached the
| jaw, they landed either too high or too
low and failed to touch the fatal point.
! The veteran explained and the new
conner was satisfied.
Perhaps the best instance of terrific
| punches reaching the jaw without pro-
| ducing state of coma was furnished
| in the recent Jeffries-Sharkey battle,
| during the course of which encounter
both principals landed many hard
I blows on the jaw, but failed to rap the
| Knockout button
| John l.. Sullivan was the first Of the
glove-fghting brigade to make spe-
cialty of the Knockout punch, and the
Old eX-champion always maintained
1 r. oCin
| to sleep with the aid of a stuffed glove
| than with the bare fist. This he at
| tributed to the sandbag propensities
contained in the glove and made good
the assertion by dropping all his OPP
| ponents during the early part of his
ring career with startling suddenness.
1t has been frequently demonstrated
that in the case of a pugilst who has
| been the victim of knockout punch
on several occasions the recipients jaw
| becomes weakened in consequence, and
is very susceptible to the evil effects
of hard punch ever afterward
| Peter Maher, big and burly though
he is, has the reputation of possessing
a weak jaw, which the critics assert Is
due to the knockout blows the Irish
man received at the hands of Fitzsim-
mons and Joe Goddard.
Charley McKeever, the crack Eastern
| welterweight, is another exponent of
the pugilistic art who is equipped with
a tender jaw. On more than one occa-
sion he has been winning easily over an
opponent, when an unlucky punch has
sped to it's destined mark and the clever
Quaker City boxer has measured his
length on the ring floor and slumbered
| over the 10 count.
Charles CKid'D Mccoy is another
| star of the arena who confesses to the
possession of a fragile jaw. AS the
Kid himself says. he is no Sharkey,
and can never afford to take chance
and rough matters with an antagonist
on that account.
Since Bob Fitzsimmons retired Jim
Corbett into temporary oblivion with
the assistance of punch on the solar
pleXus knockouts of that kind have be-
come quite fad with the short-haired
fraternity. In fact, our modern box
ers are in way, students of anatomy
on small scale They know the weak
points of the human frame and make
the most of their knowledge.
The fighters of the London prize-rins
era knew nothing of the knockout blow
for the jaw point, as used by modern
boxers In most cases where a knock
out was administered under the old
rules the records show that a blow over
the jugular vein did the trick. 1t is
quite probable, however, that many
such battles We're terminated by the
collision of a naked fist with the jaw
but at the jugular was a favorite tar
get for the old-time 'scrappers" the
credit was usually given TO the punch
with which they were most familiar.
Mccoy Looked Well.
The fight between kid" Mccoy and
Peter Maher is not off. 1t will take place
the last week of December or the first
week in January. This was agreed t.
by the principals and William A. Brady