The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-27
that made him worthless in the last

that made him worthless in the last
round.
Eighth Round land lasD-This time
Charlemont rushed up to Driscoll as
if to show (for almost the first time)
what he could do with his hands-and
Immediately no one is agreed what
happened. 1t may have been an acct
dent, but it was none the less decisive.
With a howl Drscoll dropped his
guard and doubled up:
"Ow, gentlemen he moaned; will
you allow that, gentlemen? He's kick
ed me in the. groin!"
The judges accepted Charlemont's
statement that it was his knee that
did the amage-accidentall The doc
tors disagreed on the seriousness of
the hurt. Driscoll had asked ten min
utes to recover from the foul. and at
the expiration of that time the fight
was given to the Frenchman.
The next day Charlemont received a
cable challenge from kid" Mccoy to
another fight of the same kind for $780,
600 side. No one blamed him when
he refused it on the ground that he
was not a fighter, but professor of
boxing.
My young Partisan, fresh from his
victory over the two toughs, makes
this the key of the whole Charlemont-
DAAoCCAl Allyol0l y, even TO the failure
of the low kick"
"Charlemont was only a clever box
ing master, who had never fought a
battle he says. He was so nervous
that he did not do himself justice, and
When 1t came to giving full force to
his kicks, habit and instinct were
against him. How could it be other
wise? During the ten years he had
been giving lessons his daily practice
mad been to kick gently"
The two Englishmen present admit
ted that there was great deal in this
argument. Themselves pupils of Bayle.
they cited his last years encounter
with Dave Meyer
Here was case of French against
Anglo-Saxon boxing that ended very
Inherently. Bayle, who is called the
French Jeffres,' is one of the most
powerfully built men you could I'M
aglne. Until recently he was in the
rubber tire business, with the reputa-
tlon of gifted amateur. AS such he
Tor long time practiced Anglo Saxon
boxing as superior to the French sys-
tenn. Fighting as a middleweight, he
met and defeated the negro Jack Lewis
OF Philadelphia in 1895. 1t was there
lore only by degrees that he become
convinced that marriage" of the two
systems would present the most effec-
tive art of self-defense.
This grating of French kicking on
our own style of fighting is what con-
hrmed Bayle's success and put him at
the head of his present swell establish
ment in the Avenue Wagram. There.
in August, 1902, before an audience of
high sporting fashion-not excluding la
dies of society-he so swelled up Dave
Meyers left knee with the powerful
kick they call the "chasse croise" that
our representative sat down for good
in the middle of the second round. And,
note, Bayle wore only canvas gymna-
SUM shoes.
Prof. Bayle was not present at this
conversation. Kid Lavigne.- however,
who is nowadays a great deal with
him, declared that he would put Bayle
up against almost any middleweight
Here" said Lavgne, lis a French
man who knows how to use his hands
as we'll as his feet. l give it to you
straight, he would keep them busy
watching both
is that what troubles the American
boxer most when he gets up against
'savate?'" / asked.
Yes. He is always wondering about
the kick that may be coming: yet all
his habit is to watch his adversary
eye