Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-29
AMERICAN BOXER
BEATS THE WORLD.
The Theory Of the Eng|ishmans
Straight Left is Over
Worked.
NEW METHOD OF FIGHTING.
Gives American Boxers a Big Adyau'
aac Over the British Knights of
The Padded Mitts.

owhy Is it that American second class
oorsrs can 20 over TO England and, with
a,rorent case beat the best that the
TrI,ons produce In the way Of knights of
the roped arena?'
II Is question that has been asked
many times. Robert Edgren, the well
trovn sporting writer and authority ON
hoyne undertakes TO answer II. lie
r,tes az follows ut was a straight
I'm against siogging villain" wrote
Conan DOYLE in one of the latest OF his
sherlock Holmes stories, recently printed
In an American periodical. And being
the straight left Of an English gentleman,
described IN an English story by an Eng
lsb writer. as a matter Of course, the
straight left won out and the slogging
villain was taken home on u shutter-or
IN cart or something Of that Kind,
That Is the way the straight left Is al
ways regarded IN England, II has been
idolzed Dy the English people ever since
jls discovery In the early ages OF the prize
ing English sailors all around the world,
mixing il with men Of other nations that
No. moi know how to use the fists, have
carrlei the straight left and the straight
rght TO fame and victory. Even the fact
hal every second class fighter from
American shores who has crossed the
ocean TO fight where the game Is easier
has beaten the best that England could
produce and with the most absurd ease,
has not yet made an impression on the
British mind, All things British are
stable It Is harder TO change AN idea
that has become enbalmed In the mind
da Briton than II is TO move mountains,
livery Englishman thinks that the only
way 10 box Is TO hit straight from the
shoulder" Ten or twenty years from
now every Engllshman Will think the
zane thing,
About a year ago, In london, asked
one Of the greatest OF British sportsmen
how he accounted for the fact that Amer
lean lighters. who could not get into tho
championship class here at all, could go
TO England and wipe out champion after
champion without any great apparent Ell
fort
Really, old chap" he exclaimed. II
cannot account for II at all, II seems TO
me that the men here are Just as strong
and Just as courageous. Really, | fancy
II must be that you take things 20 serl-
ously across the water Your fighters
must AINlll ~ tttl l'oAlet lbu hiANNs
! assured him. that j knew OF many
fighters who ala not take great care Of
themselves add who nevertheless, wero
considered among our best.
Don't go uthink that our new methods
Of hitting make the difference" ! asked.
that swinging and hooking is much more
effective than the traditional straight
jabT
The EnglIshman looked shocked,
oh not ut all--not at an no eN-
claimed.
There you are. The plain fact Of the
matter Is that new methods OF lighting
have been adopted by the American box
ere, and that the Engllshmen have not
kept UP TO date.
Nowadays it is the ''slogging villain"
who knows how 10 hit well with either
hand who knocks out the gentleman with
me straight left every time. | don't won
DER after seeing some OF these straight
letters In action that they regard the en-
ergellc ring methods OF the Americans
With species Of horror
There Is a knockout In a hook or
swing There II a knockout once In
while IN u straight punch with either
hand. But the straight punch Is better
ior purposes Of wearing down an antagon-
st than u finishing battle In a hurry.
All the old champions OF England were
straight hitters. a man who swung his
hands was looked upon by fanciers OF tho
game as an exceedingly unc0uth speci-
men lie was referred contemptuously as
hay mover"
IN this country John l.. Sullivan was
really the lntroducer Of the best blow
Known TO fighters t0day-the right hook
lQr the body or Jaw. With IL he whipped
NJ The English fighters who would meet
hlm, ana as many American boxers as
could DO induced TO enter the ring while
John 4 was within the ropes. The hook
WIN the right hand was the blow that
came natural TO sullivan. He never had
goo leil and he never needed one The
ilght was enough,
Some fighters are natural swingers, like
itogng Corbett Some hit straight But
" a noticeable fact that all the men
VINO knock out their opponents. all tho
champions, use the hooks and swings, not
NE straight blows.
James j Jeftrles' speciality Is left hook
it we body FltZsmmons told me that
when Jef landed that on him he felt IA
T. nv Il9s had been crumbled up into a
punch Fltzslmmons is famous Tor hIs
hooks The 'shiftsis merely changing
~ Ieet followed with left hook into the
srSSsH ana left hook upporcut TO the
Tommy Ryan, while he uses the straight
,,isos to work his men into position where
,ney can be reached with a Knockout
a wy a hook, preferably with the right
'Sl q ,nnlshcr Joe Walcott Is a swlnger.
200 Vans drops the mwith either left
% a right hook to the chin. Young Cor
oyT swings and hooks as he pIeascs
eno many have felt the quality OF HIS
isS, punch, Little Frankie Neil, ban
%u champion, won his title with a loft
nmOh 10 the stomach that Instantly took
W uno night out OF Harry Forbes.
N Guy over IN England they still stick TO
He sllalRht left" And so America has
monopoly on the ohampionshlps.