The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-30
LIGHTWEIGHTS
SHADE The AMERICANS
Foreigners Fight with Judgment; They Take Good
Care OF Themselves and Consequently SurpaSS
Americans in Fighting Ability at Present Time.

If he jumps back he must come for
ward again, all of which means more
or less labor. A duck or a shift of the
head not only avoids the blow but
leaves you in a position to deliver a
return In quick order.
II remember that Mace used to tie his
hands behind his back and allow anyone
to try to hit his face or head. The way
he could spin his old nut around was sim
ply phenomenal. | would like TO see
some Of the modern fighters try this little
trick. Why, 1t is almost a lost art now
down to a science. It was quite a scheme
IN those days for a man to twist his
head so that his rival would hit the
thick part of the skull and thus break
the knuckles or sprain a wrist. Mitchell
worked this trick on Sullivan in the fifth
round of their battle in France. and John
block. That was one of the reasons Sulli-
van agreed to n draw, for he suffered much
pam. and his treat knocker-out was prac-
tically useless during the other thirty
four rounds. Mitchell had learned this
wrinkle from Mace,
John Bull is having a great laugh at
short time when the American boys will
get wise and wallop the Driscolls, Welshes.
Morans, Whites. Bowkers and the whole
British shooting match. They must first
learn the art Of straight punching and
get shifty with the head as well as with
the feet. Go over to Brooklyn. boys. and
nv d ieW points from WcAuiiHe. lie
knows he old and the new game.
It's strange about these international
i1stic affairs. John c. Heenan. George
Lavigne, Jack O'Brien. George Dixon,
Tommy Burns. Kid Mccoy, Jack johnson
and other Americans AVE crossed the big
pond and. walloped English champions,
while now the Brltons are turning the
tables on us in the lighter classes. But
let it be remembered that no finely bred
Briton of the top class has ever lowered
our colors. In fact. all of the British
champions are of Irish blood. such as
Moran, Welsh. and others. 1t is proba-
bly, a good lesson in straight punching
when our boys are trimmed once In a
while. 1t teaches them a whole lot In
the way of experience.
There's another point in favor Of Eng
fish and Australian fighters. They don't
live as fast as our boys. As soon as an
American becomes a champion, or even a
near-champion, he butts into swift society,
hits the grape juice and paints the town.
Do you remember our little friend from
Denver, Young Corbett, after he extin-
g1tiished McGovern. when he landed on
the Great White Way and turned night
into day? He was q fine specimen of the
gay and festive American champion.
Dressed like a millionaire's son, he cut
a dashing figure for IA while. but he sud
denly woke up one evening and found
His dream was soon over and he's been
trying hard reeeatly to regain his lost
laurels. It's a hard battle. Did You ever
see any one of them come back to first
cabin again? | never did,
But Just just watch yours truly. l will
CONVINCE those sporting happies from one
end of the globe to the other that l am
the master of the ring when | knock
Jack Jonnson's block off, and it can't be
too SOON