The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-25
BOXERS RECORDS FAVOR
JEFF FOR Big BATTLE
History Shows His Work to be
Superior to That of Ebony
Hued Champ.
NO DOUBT ABOUT HIS PUNCH

Two very essential points are tC
be decided in judging the alb ty OF
pugilist in these days of progress
sion-in fact pugilist has to pos
sess both qualities to be a champion
ability to take punishment and put
it back with telling effect.
Cleverness without a knockout punch
is decidedly against a boxer climbing
to the top of the pugilistic tree. This
has been proved many times, and in
one instance, especially when Jeffries
knocked out Jim" Corbett at Coney
Island.
For % rounds Corbett simply chop
ped "Jefr' TO pieces, as the saying
goes, and the latter had hardly landed
a punch. II the blows Corbett landed
could have been counted, he probao-
~ hit Jeffries 100 or more times. yet
the one effective blow OF Jeffries told
more tales than the numberless up
per cuts and straight jabs by Corbett
which were dealt out in over one
hours fighting.
No more forceful evidence i'm behalf
Of the man with a knockout blow can
be offered than the fight between JEFF
fries and COrbett. one of them un-
questionably the cleverest boxer OF
this generation. and the other the
slow. but determined, fighter, who
could take all the punishment given
70 him and still have enough strength
left to deal out a decisive blow.
Days That May Have Fled.
The days of a clever boxer being
champion fighter are gone. In olden
times the clever man could win =
battle when gloves were unheard OF.
Then a clever boxers object was II
blind his opponent the objective point.
in nearly all old-time battles being
the eyes. Combined with this was
cunning seeking TO distress an oppO-
pent by wrestling and showing when
opportunity offered. Since the days
Of John L. Sullivan, who perfected
the knockout punch, things have been
very different. OF course, If a pug !
Hist is also clever he has much the |
better chance. but to win fight these
days takes stamina and a Dull head"
one that cannot be injured by a blow
from a gloved hand.
Battling" Nelson has won all Of |
his fights through his persistency and |
ability TO take punishment, with the /
added determination TO wear his OPP
ponent down by keeping at him from
the moment the gong sounded. He
was not clever. nor did he have
knockout punch that could be de-
pended upon, yet he held the cham
pionship for a number Of years.
Jeff Like Nelson.
In sizing up Jehries and Johnson
there is no question that Jeffries has
all the good qualities a fighter should
possess, except that he is not clever
in fact he Is a trihe slow-but,
like Nelson, he can take all the pun
ishment a man can give him. He has
what Nelson has not, the Knockout
punch, when the time comes to land
it. He has never been knocked out,
yet he met the hardest hitters in the
pugilistic world when he fought Fitz-
simmons and Sharkey
Johnson is admitted TO be more
clever than Jeffries, so the coming
fight is a question whether he can
stand the strain of a 20 or 3O-round
contest and by punishment wear JEFF
fries down until he is limp. the same
as Corbett did Sullivan in their MEM
orable fight in New Orleans.