The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-02-19
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CLEAN BREAK BOXING IN
HONOLULU IN THE FUTURE

lu future Nl DOING WAif Dee hfAN 4
under nay direction Boa Honolulu will
De according Do ihc clean.brcak rules.
The public hcro pfciofs that style IT
boxing. aud, according To- my Own idea,
Il " the only way To have real box
ING. We want clever boxing cNhibi.
tions aud NOT smuggling matches, and /
shall take care that there b. no more
chance Tor recurrence of last Satur'
day night finish of the Peterson
sullivan bout
That was Joe Cohen = statement TO
an Advertiser representative last
night. aud u is good all the way
through. The only way IN which one
can insure straight boxing is by IN
sisting ON the ciean-break rule. BY
these means all possibility of fouling
aud ragged infghting are prevented,
and the public is treated TO fancy
show such as Reilly and smith put up
the last time they met.
Straight Marquis of Queensberry
rules permit man TO hit 80 long as
he has one arm free. II does not mat
Ter how much the other man is holding
ON. hc may slug. but he must not hold
with one hand and hit. In other
words. if one man is holding ON with
hutn arms anu nae hhN Va h'S fll"
nept IS hands in chancery, the latter
MAY hit with his free hand. But a
boxer may not clasp his opponent
round the neck or shoulder and hit
with the other hand.
Hugging Eliminated
When, in the opinion of the referee,
there is fair clinch, that official
must order "a break and both men are
supposed to break away, each protect
ing himself as ne breaks. This bus
ness of two men hugging each other
and wrestling round the ring is not
according TO any rules, and there is
nothing said that permits the referee
TO break the men. The useless mug
ping and wrestling that weared the
spectators last Saturday night will be
entirely eliminated by the clean-break
rule.
A clean break means that as soon
ms the boxers clinch there must be no
more hitting, and at the word of the
referee they shall both break away
clearly; that is, raising both hands to
clear their opponent 5 arms and step
ming back away from striking range
without hitting. One can imagine,
without seeing it, the immense dliter'
ence between the two styles and how
a mere slugger has no chance with
real boxer under clean break rules.
Lightweights Training.
Smith and Reilly have both started
training for their return match ON Sat
urday. February ~. They have al
ready given the finest boxing exhibit
tion ever seen in Honolulu, and may
be relied on to repeat their perform
ance, with perhaps more ginger added
one thing is going to make their
next meeting more of hummer than
ever. and that is that Smith is pre-
paring for a clean-break bout and not
for one under straight rules. Last
time frankie was under distinct dis
advantage. as he had been preparing
y for straight-rule go and was not
ready to meet Charlie Reilly at the
latter's own game.
Smith. however, proved to every
body's satisfaction that he IS as clever
as he is game and can come very near
TO outboxing Reilly when he is ready
for that style of match. From now
until the end of next week Smith Will
nav attention principally to cleverness
and may be relied on to appear IN the
ring. week from Saturday, with a
bunch of long-range work that VIII
startle even his most ardent admirers
Reilly at orpheum.
Charlie Reilly is working at the Or
pheum. while Frankie has decided on
Fort Shafter Both lads started boxing
yesterdav afternoon and both did a
good days work.
A. nrpbounn Reilly was discover
cd in the ring where he was boxing
with Eddie Hines. Bob Ross was IN
charge and will look after Charlie dur
ing this siege of training. He held the
watch and sent the two lads in foi
eight hard rounds of milling.
Bob's dope was that Reilly needed
NOT much hard work, but plenty of prac
tise in blocking, while "Ungie" Hines
needed the hardest kind of gruelline
10 get him fit. So he babe Eddie bore
in and Reilly block and the two lads
nut IN very clever exhibition indeeG
Reilly will need all his blocking WORN
IL he is to Withstand the rapid LEADS
of his opponent and, approaching TINS
his trainer will see to it that crime,
his stomach, or the glove that shouir
he there to protect the vital spot, VIII
receive plenty of pounding between nov
and Saturday the twenty.seVenth'
Ross has also instituted new Sc
of abdominal exercises for his principia.
that even good old Pete Baron conl'
hardly improve on. As well as the usua
raising and lowering of the legs an'
body stunt, Reilly goes through SOM
that look mighty hard to perform III
balances himself on his shoulders an'
the back of his head and, with n.
trunk raised at right angles to the hooi
he goes through series OF klcklhgs al'
leg movements that would max .,, maui
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