Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-17


Reilly step into the ring on the 9th
of this month It will be 20 night under
the clean-break rule. This insures a
good, lively bout, and does away with
the wearisome clinches and might
ing that characterized fast Saturday
nights struggle for the middleweight
championship.
II the clean-break rule had been in
force on Saturday last, the public
would have been treated to a pretty
and scientific fight instead of a sue
cession of wrestling matches - for
that is what It looked most like.
Another thing is that the referee
will not be, for half his time, engaged
in an abortive attemp, to separate
the two fighters, who each, as is nat
ural, want to be the flrst to get out
of the clinch, for then the chance of
lending a good one in the breakaway
Is enhanced.
II is very annoying and firing
thing to have to sit ana watch two
men swaying locked together, all over
the ring. Still, 1t is the game under
the hitting and defending In clinches
clause.
The fight on the 27th between the
two featherweights should be as de-
void of clinches-of any duration
Az the big fight was full OF them.
These two lads, Smith and Reilly, put
up as pretty a fight as could be
wished for on the occasion of their
first meeting, and there Is no doubt
that the go on the 9th will be Just
as good.
The last fight was for fifteen
rounds and was SO evenly fought out
that the referee had to call It draw.
The next meeting OF the lads will be
also over the same distance, although
efforts were made to extend the num-
Der OF rounds to twenty.
When the two boys step into the
ring they will be in the pink OF con-
dition, and good, clean. willing go
Is assuredS No one need stay away
from the featherweight fight feeling
that II will be all clinches and wrest-
ling. The clean-break is going to be
the dope In Honolulu in the future.
and consequently fine scraps should
be the rule.
Smith and Reilly are very evenly
matched on their previous showing
and It is hard to say who will get the
dc cision In their next match. frankie
IL a very willing fighter and keeps
boring In all the time, whilst Reilly
Is very clever and is up TO every
move In the boxing game.
Both men are In active training
and are determined to finish II one
way or another at their next meet
ling.
A decision. almost invariably, in
a featherweight contest is arrived at
on point basis. The small fellows
very seldom have the punch that puts
o well-seasoned lad to Sunderland.
The weight is not there to add force
&C. the blow and, after all. II Is the
weight Of the body behind the pis-
tonllke punch that does the damage
to the other fellows spinal column.
The favorite Knockout route is via
the jaw. A well-delivered punch on
the point forces the head back on the
lspine with such violence that the
Subject operated on at once becomes
unconscious and takes no Turther In
terest in the proceedings.
Being knocked out by a wallop on
the Jaw is really not such an un.
pleasant experience as the uninitiat,
ed might think. After the punch II
stopped by ones chin everything II
like an opium fiend's dream; stars, oil
course, first take a hand because the
brain centers are disturbed. Within
a second or two everything seems L
be delightful, The pug who stopped
the wicked left or right with his Jaw
thinks he is floating amongst bev.
OF hours. Nothing could be NOR
pleasant, although he is annoyed b!
a far-away voice which will insist OF
counting "One, two, three" and s,
on, to what seems a thousand. Oh
II that guy would only stop his ef
forts to reach some far-on numbe
all would be heavenly. Suddenly tn
counting ceases and everything 1
quiet, excepting some faint nois
which is waited from the outsid
somewhere. Now for comfortabl
sleep, thinks the bloke who is knock
ed out, but vain hope. A bucket O
water is thrown over him. and h
awakes with pain In the back of tn
head that simply makes him think h
has been on record-breaking jag.
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