Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-07-31
JEFFRIES TALKS
ABOUT BOXING
Big Fellow Considers The
Straight J,b
Best

JACK JOUusOn y SWlnES UT upDerCuts,
is evident from the line Of dope
Jeff has been handing out In tho
East.
While in Montreal recently the
big fellow was corncred where he
could not sidestep by newspaper
man and made to 20 a few rounds
with the man of the pen. Here Is
what the ex-boiler-maker thinks
about the comparative styles OF old
time and modern day fighters:
'lf the boxing game is ever to
keep the place It has held in the es-
| teen OF great proportion OF the
public for many years more science
must be introduced into II.
change in the style of fighting even
during the last few decades, but II
isn't the siugger alone who wins
lights these days.
And II isn't the slugger alone that
the fight fans want to see.
| Ability to hit combined with the
knowledge when and how to hit is
what is required OF every boxer who
hopes to makeSany mark in the
ring.
| Just think of some Of the old
time fighters and see how what !
say has come about during the last
few years.
Take John l.. Sullivan. John l..
couldn't get In one effective blow in
won because he was enormously
strong. He could slash his way
through his opponents guard and
then come across with that terrific
wallop with the right and down
and out went his opponent.
That was what happened in a
good many of Sullivan's fights.
But when he ran up against Cor
bet. he was up against different
proposition to what he had encount-
cred in most of his fights. Corbet
was a nimble fellow and John l..
twenty-one rounds.
What was Sullivan able to do
with Charlie Mitchell when they
met at Chantilly, France? Nothing
For more than three hours Sullivan
had Mitchell In the ring there and
Mitchell was too clever for the
heavy swinging Sullivan. He sim.
ply avoided the big fellow until the
latter was so tired that he agreed
to call 1t a draw.
Among the little fellows of today
take Jim Driscoll, the game little
WEIGH fighter. You didn't see Dris
coll do any wild swinging when III
was In the square with Abe Attel
Leach Cross, Matty Baldwin or any
Of those fellows. Not on your life
The Welshman jabbed them all sill.
with his straight left, Just like 10,
Coburn, Jim Dunno. Mike Donovan
Bob Farrell. Billy Madden and man!
OF the others of the earlier days.
! believe great deal in tina
straight lead with the left tina
they teach In the Old Country.
Along with a good reach and
perfect timing of the footwork. tina
straight left lead has the leads o
the 'crouchers beaten for effective
ness.
Jack Dempsey and Jack McAuliff
knew how to lead straight. l me
McAuliffe the other evening In Ne,
York waching couple of youn
| swingers beating the air with thei
i fists.
/ 'They'e couple OF willing boys
/ ! said to the former champion.
! Yes, very willing replied McAu
l life, very willing and very rotten
It's shame, that somebody don
/ teach the young boxers OF today no,
to spar. Why II either OF thos
chaps had come at me with will
swings like that leaving himsel
/ wide open, I'd have had his head Of
inside of two rounds
There they went round afte
i round the same ding-dong way, an
the result draw.
= You remember Dempsey. He wa
an artist No man ever led to hir
twice In the same manner withou
getting return, and he neve
fought one round like another.
III Sometimes he was aggressive an
then again he would play possum o.
the defensive. Dempsey was
- straight puncher and the blows h
started to deliver always got to tn
paint he aimed at, because he under
stood when and where to hit.
recall that four round match be
tween that great little man Gearg
% Dixon and Billy PlImmer. In Madi
son Square Garden. In the earl
, nineties. The match was for points