The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-17
CLEAN BREAK BOXING IN
HONOLULU IN THE FUTURE
Joe Cohen Announces That Open Style of
Boxing VIII Be Adopted Here
Exclusively.


ing. We want clever boxing exhibit
tions and not smuggling matches, and I
shall take care that there is no more
chance for a recurrence of last Satur-
day nights finish of the Peterson
Sullivan bout
That was Joe Cohen s statement to
an Advertiser representative last
night, and it is good all the way
through. The only way in which one
can insure straight boxing is by in
sisting on the break rule. By
these means all possibility of fouling
and ragged infghting are prevented,
and the public is treated to a fancy
show such as Reilly and Smith put up
the last time they met.
Straight Marquis of Queensberry
rules permit a man to hit so long as
he has one arm free. It does not mat
ter how much the other man is holding
on, he may slug, but he must not hold
with one hand and hit. In other
words, if one man is holding on with
both arms and has one of his oppo-
nent 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 break and both men are
supposed to break away, each protect
ing himself as ne breaks. This bush
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 hug
ging and wrestling that wearied the
spectators last Saturday night will be
entirely eliminated by the clean break
rule.
A clean break means that as soon
as the boxers clinch there must be no
more hitting, and at the word of the
referee they shall both break away
cleanly; that is, raising both hands to
clear their opponent S arms and step
ping back away from striking range
without hitting. One can imagine,
without seeing it, the immense differ
ence, between the two styles and how
mere slugger has no chance with a
real boxer under clean-break rules
Lightweights Training.
Smith and Reilly have both started
training for their return match on Sat
urday, February p. They have al
ready given the finest boxing exhibit
| ton 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-
pairing for clean break bout and not
| for one under straight rules. Last
time frankie was under distinct dis
advantage, as he had been preparing
for a straight-rule go and was not
| ready to meet Charlie Reilly at the
latter's own game.
Smith, however, proved to every
bodvs 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
paw attention principally to cleverness
and NAV be relied on to appear in the
ring. a week from Saturday, with a
bunch of long-range work that Will
startle even his most ardent admirers
| Reilly at Orpheum.
Charlie Reilly isAworking at the Or
pheum, while frankie has decided on
Fort Shafter. Both lads started boxing
Yesterday afternoon and both did
| good days work.
At the Orpheum Reilly was discover
ed 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 fol-
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 gruelling
10 oct him fit. So he babe Eddie bore
in and Reilly block and the two lads
mt ND a very clever exhibition indeed
Reilly will need all his blocking work
if he is to withstand the rapid LEADS
of his opponent and, approaching TINS
his trainer will see to it that e1theI
his stomach. or the glove that shoulo
be there to protect the vital spot Will
receive plenty of pounding between no"
and Saturday the twenty-seventh.
| Ross has also instituted new Sc,
of abdominal exercises for his prlnclpal
! that even good old Pete Baron coul9
| bard1v improve on. As well as the usnal
p psrG and lowering of the legs and
body &C stunt, Reilly goes through through some me
b tnGo himself on his shoulders and
t pas1 1 back of his head and, with his his
b f" GOES through Series of kickings and
leo : movements that would make =, Mauo
herself look like tired windmill
A Natural Wish.
Reilly expressed his thoughts and ms
wishes too, very suceinetiy, yes teion5
afternoon while joking with friend
Charlie invited said friend, youth OF
1ankv nronortions. to box with MN