The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-27
PugiIism
Baseball
Racing
MISTAKES MADE
BY GREEN BOXERS
Veterans of the Ring Who Have
Kept Themselves From
Bruises.
(By Eddie Smith }

! DONlQS bouts nelu III Sdu lahNioSo
and the short distance contests held
about the bay 1t really seems very
queer thing that more good men arc
not turned out who can come along
and take tho places OF the fading pro
fessionals who have held the spotlight
on the pugiliStic stage so long. Every
week in the city across the bay ser
| les Of eight amateur boxing contests
are held by one of the four clubs pro-
noting that end OF the sport, Every
time one of these series of bouts is
| held 1t requires 16 men TO make up
the card and the boxers come and so
and new faces are always to be seen, a
fact that demonstrates how many
young men try to make success oil
! boxing With all these hundreds of
well-meanlng. well.muscled and indus
trious chaps trying for money and
fame In the game oil 1isticufIs. how
ever, Johnnie Frayne and Lew Powell
are the only two who at the present
time seem TO have any chance TO be-
come world-famous.
OF course, little or no attention is
given these facts by the average OBJ
server of the game, but II seems rath-
er serious thing to those who are
closely identified with the sport and
who are continually on the lookout for
promising material Just at this time
heavyweight with the right sort of
| stuff in him could make himself rich
with very few fights. but since AL
Kaufman graduated from the amateur
ranks not one has come along who
appears to have even fighting chance
Of becoming a champion. There Is a
reason for all this, and it ie very
/ simple one at that. The boxer OF
this latter day never learns the art
of boxing before he Is put into the
ring TO battle with anyone that the
matchmaker of a certain club may see
fit to match him with. The result Is
that the boxer simply falls into bad
habits OF wild Slugging and useless eX-
crtion, and is often beaten up before
he has had fair chance to show what
he has in him.
Boxers Enter in Hap-Hazard Fashion,
With all the boxers who are being
brought into the game today, there IS
not one OF them who has had lessons
from a competent instructor or had ad-
vice from a man who is well versed
In the game OF fisticuffs, The great
majority of the boys learn few point
ers from the fellow who has had a few
amateur fights, and II he Is game and
able TO take a beating, that is all he
Is required TO show before he is put
into the ring with some fellow Of his
weight TO take a chance.
To one who knows the value Of how
TO box and how to hit. ii Is both pitiful
and disgusting to watch the average
young fighter trying to use straight
left punch on an opponent Not one
in 100 of them know how. and ii is
the first and most important thing for
young boxer to learn.
The first thing the young man TAX
ing lessons on a plano is taught is the
keyboard and until such time as he
has learned this thoroughly he is un-
i1t to tackle the intricacies OF music.
The straight left is to boxing Just
what the keyboard Is 20 the piano and
before A young man is informed that
he Is ready to go into the ring he
should have some knowledge of this
punch. OF course II is impossible for
all boxers TO be good left-hand boxers.
In fact. they are very few, but with
the straight left comes the good foot.
work and the foundation for all other
blows, OF the boxers turned out from
the amateur ranks today. and In thls
| mean within the last two years, who
have shown any ability to use this
punch is Tommy Mccarthy. and he
used II TO great advantage on Roscoe
Taylor In the preliminary TO the
Johnson Kaufman engagement After
Taylor had put Mccarthy down in the
first round and things looked bad for
him he reSorted TO no other punch
except the straight left and In a few
rounds he had the man with the hard
right hand punch beaten to submission
by jabbing him and keeping out of
danger from tho right swings.
Right Swing Is Bad for Amateurs.
The right swing Is one OF tho most
disgusting things the new starter
uses. and TO sit and watch a Young
ster In the ring deliberately stand
off several feet from an opponent and
start wild right swing at the other
fellows head Is indeed aggravating to
the man who knows what that would
mean few years ago, when the men
fought with straIght-arm blows Go
down the line Of great fighters such as
Joe Cans, Bob Fltzslmmons. Jim JEFF
fries. Jim Corbett, Jack Johnson and
even Battling Nelson. and try TO re-
member when you have ever seen one
of these men lead in with a swinging
right punch unless the opponent was
helpless and il was sent over for the
final crusher. You would be a long
time thinking to place one contest in
which this thing had happened Yet
the young boxer of today without ever
giving the matter thought goes into
the ring and even in the first round
Will start wild swing, leaving him.
self hopelcsSly open for the fresh op-
poncnt.
ketchel's Mistake In Los Angeles.
ketchel, In the Papke fight at Los
Angeles, started out from his corner
10 beat the German with punch and
the moment tho two come together he
started a swing. Papke was ready
for just such a start and he nailed
the Michigander with a short straight
punch before the swing got started
This swinging OF left and right punches
In the early rounds of n contest is
often the cause OF man who IS rated
as the best one being beaten and no man
can expect to become a great fighter
who uses nothing else but them II
the young man who has ambition TO
become famous pugilist would start
his career by learning tho. first prin.
ciple9 Of boxing he would be better
OFF and would stand a good chance of
becoming famous and the cauliflowcr
ears and bruised faces would not be 80
evident.
Johnson in 65 Flights Without sruIsc
Another thing that should be an In.
ducemcnt for the young man to learn