The Washington times., 1905-04-16
BOXERS MUST HAVE
GANENESS TO WIN
Nerve Often Turns Tide OF
Defeat.
EACH HAS A WEAK SPOT
Pugilists Go Down Hill After One
Good Pounding-Maher and
Sharkey's Cases,
EACH HAS A WEAK SPOT

That many n fighter could win battles
by adopting primitive and simple
style Of fighting II hard pressed In the
ring was always the opinion OF Frank
Erne. eN-lightweight champion OF the /
world. and now another pugilist is adj
vancing the same idea.
He is Barney Furey. the Cincinnati
scrapper. Furey thinks that many II
man could not only win the sympathy
of the spectators. but could actually /
turn the tide of battle by adopting Il /
simple rushing style when defeat stares |
him in the face II he adhered TO his /
best scientific efforts.
There is nothing more tiresome than I
to see one man, who clearly has another /
beaten, going on for round after round /
and wearing his opponent down., said
Furey, ''and l think that lot of fight /
ers don't know just how TO overcome I
this difficulty. Yet there is one way out /
that will always bring the sympathy of
The crowd to the man who is getting /
the worst of It.
Throw cience Away.
This system is nothing more or less |.
than letting science go to the winds and
going in to slug when the other man !
clearly has it over you. If the other fell /
low has the edge over you in science 1t is
unfair to a crowd which has paid its
money to see a fight, to simply go in
and get beaten. The spectators want
run and they ought to get it.
Many and many a fight has been
won by that unexpected punch. often
handed in desperation. Sometimes it was
merely a chance blow. Now. If man
is hopelessiy outpointed in the sparrin~
game what is to prevent his going in
and making things as fast as he can?
Public Admires Man.
1T makes rattling good fight, lets
him out without dishonor, even If he is
finally beaten. and brinos the crowd to
its feet. a man who can fight that way
IS always sure of support. When "a
pugillst finds himself hopeless1y beaten
at the scientific end he should go in
and try TO get out with a rafting finish
If half the fighters of today would try
this the results of lot of important
| fights would be changed.
Il never could see why some men
went in to get punched for round after
round. These same blows wouldn't hurt
a bit more If they tried TO fight back
themselves. They were sure to get
punched anyhow. so why not try to give
| back as many of those blows as pos
sible?
Gets Tiresome.
How often do you go TO a bout and
see the preliminary turn into tiresome
affair. with one man clearly having the
edge over ....,,e other? If the man who gets
! the worst CT itrwould go in with rights
and lefts, taking the punches he would
be sure to get anyhow, he would make
d stirring fight and would probably les
sen his own punishment.
/ The other fellow would be kept busy
blocking those rights and lefts, and it
would actually relieve the man who did
the rushing Moreover the blows, when
landing. would help lot in turning the
result In another direction.
Il have always figured that it was
best, when man was hopelessly out
pointed, TO go in and die fighting his
best-and it might be that victory would
come to the apparently beaten man af-
ter all.
Every Fighter Suffers.
That constant punching and pound
ing has its effects on every fighter is an
axiom long accepted by fight followers
Yet the active participants in the game
often seem to believe that they are just
as good as ever long after they have
passed their period of usefulness.
In many cases man Is good enough
TO last as one of the topnotchers. even
when he has been defeated for leading
honors in the ring. Terry McGovern
| tr.rac in % has al
legarded as the most dangerous man
at his own weight, regardless of the fact
chat Young Corbett has twice taken his
measure.
McGovern ard Dixon.
In other cases the collapse comes
suddenly. When McGovern beat George
+ Dixon the little negro went rapidly down
the hill He still had his remarkable
/ speed and oldtime skill. but there was
not his old-time force back of his
\ punches. The energy with which he
once sent his rights and lefts over was
[ no longer in evidence. 1t was a case of
, Il good old engine without ability TO
= raise the steam power it once possessed.
0 Peter Maher's case is about as good
S type as any. Once regarded as "a
z promising candidate for championship
: honors. the constant rappings on the
jaw from men who sent him to the land
of dreams by this route made him and
caused him 20 go out In short order
Q when nc was reached there.
( "Maher was considered champion
ship timber when Fitzsimmons fought
him at Langtry Tex. When he went UP
: against men of much inferior caliber In
! later years his jaw was SO sensitive
that a punch there often put him to the
bad IN few seconds.
e Sharkey Never Recovered.
''Sharkey was never the same after
the terrific pounding he received in the
> fight with Jeffrles at Coney Island Erne
never recovered altogether from the
punch administered by Cans. Kid Nc
o Coy was never good a man after
; Sharkey had drubbed him for ten rounds