The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-14
THE MOST HARMFUL BLOW.
TIE Smash on the Chin the Worst
Says John L.

more harmful blow, a smash on the
point of the jaw or drive in the pit
of the stomach, called the solar pleX-
us punch nowadays. The former heavy
weight champion, after listening to
various expressions of opinions, said
convincingly:
| Take it from me as dead straight
that the crack on the point of the
jaw is the most dangerous used in the
prize ring. You'll find that what
few men have been killed in prize
| fights have been hit on the chin or
jugular, and have fallen over in such
manner that their heads have hit
the floor with force enough to frac-
ture the skull. In the old days. while
all the pugilists used stomach blows.
they always tried for the point of the
Jaw to put man to sleep. That was
my long suit as you we'll know. [
used to catch a fellow on the chin
with my right and it was all off the
first time l landed it. Yet | never
killed anybody. The blow on the
jaw generally hits nerve and for the
moment paralyzes the BRAIN That's
why a fellow goes down quick, be-
cause he doesn't know where he's at.
The jaw, of course, is liable to be
broken, and as l said before, there's
chance for a fractured skull. But
it's a dead sure knockout blow just
the same, provided it lands. To
show how tender the point of the jaw
must be, you've only got to see Fitz-
simmons hand in those little three
inch hooks of his. He doesn't swing
his mawleys like a blacksmith, but
he steps in close and jolts the jaw
bone with a punch which. though it
doesn't travel far, has enough power
in il to knock a man cold. big
man with thick neck and solid
shoulders can take a jaw-breaker bet
ter than a fellow with q long thin
neck and a thin frame. A fighter
with powerful legs such us Jeffries can
stand up under smashes on the head
better than a thin-legged boxer of tie
Corbett and Fitzsimmons type. It
stands to reason that house with
solid foundations will stand up bet
ter in a cyclone than one with weak
underpinning.
THE stomach or solar plexus, blow
is not so harmful in my estimation.
When it is properly delivered it SIM
ply knocks the wind out of a fellow
just long enough to make him unable
to go on. That was the case at Car
son when FitZ stopped Corbett. The
latter was getting along finely until
Bob got in his shift and filed the left
to the stomach so hard that Jim
didn't know whn hit him The wind
was knocked out of Corbett. That
was all. He waSl'r unconscious
while on all fours and a few moments
after he had been counted out he was
all right. If, however, he had gotten
up before the limit had been reached,
ItL, Will DIoW VII luS Jaw, ull6uC
have killed him, as Jim's heart was
probably affected for the time being
by the force of the punch in the stom-
ach. Fitz practically licked Rubin
with left hand body blow in the
second round, but Gus had the STAN
ina to take it and get up inside of
cnnnnlc Aftnr that hOWnvnr
he was no use, and Fitz won as he
pleased, but was compelled to land
a smash on the jaw to end the mill.
Few pugilsts have been seriously
injured with these body blows. If a !
mans stomach is in good condition
he can stand lots of them. If he's not
fit in the bread basket he's dead
cock in the pit. Look at Dixon for
instance. When McGovern started
to hammer him in the body there was
nothing to it. Georges stomach was
all gone and he couldn't stand up
under such betting as Terry handel
to him. Yet Dixon was not seriously
injured and bore no marks of the go.
I'll admit that latter-day pugilists
have made more of a study of body
blows than they used to do. The
heart blow has been perfected, also
the kidney punch. The latter has
been developed so that all fellow has
to do is to hold on with one hand and
hammer the kidneys with the other |
Referees allow the rules to be violated
when they permit such business.
THE greatest amount of body
punching that l have seen in recent
years was that received by Sharkay
from Jeffries. The sailor got it good
and was laid up for several days, but
there were no i'll effects. These young
fellows who die from the effects of
blows in the ring are, as a rule, inex-
perienced and out of condition; nov-
ices, in fact. You never hear of a