The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-01
No Recognized School
Of Boxing These DAYS
of the Mace system, attempted.

of the Mace system, attempted.
This is not in disparagement of |
Peter Jackson, who have always held, |
was one of the greatest heavywe1ghts |
the game has known, but just to sug- |
gest that the Mace system was not ,
perfect enough to be overpowering
AS another setback for the Mace |
school," l recall in the case of Abe Will |
is, bantam champion of Australia, who |
was brought here to box George Dixon |
before the California Athletic club som
20 years ago. He was a compact, COM |
pendulum of all that was effective in the !
Foley system, yet he was virtual
ly licked in the opening round with 81
punch that Jem Mace himself would
have probably pronounced impossible.
The Mace blows were the old
straight from the shoulder assaults to
which the Englishman still pins his
faith. The smash that stung Willis
and prevented him from getting in his
best ticks during the five rounds which
were boxed, was the left rip that won
for Dixon in most of his contests. 1t
started it's upward flight somewhere
about Willis hip and it found lodge
ment beenath his chin 1t was the first
time in the little Antipodean's life he
had sampled such a crazy, crashing clip
from a glove, and no doubt he Won
dered why it was that the Mace school
had not devised a block or getaway for
just such cases.
1t was plainly to be seen that he did
not recover fully from the Dixon rip,
land while he fought like a wasp for
the better part of five rounds, he was
finally sent to the grass"
There are simply one or two in
stances that accur to me where grad
yates of the Mace college of boxing
ran against snags in the shape OF
American pugilists who were known as
natural fighters and claimed allegiance
to no particular school That the in
vasion of the disciples of Jem Mace
had an influence for good on American
boxing methods is not to be denied. But
as I have stated at the beginning OF
this article, it looks to me as if the
days of the Mace schools and all other
.oboo1s bovo nacSa1
Will someone who thinks otherwise
please assign Battling Nelson to some
particular school? In Nelson's case his
face is his fortune. He offers it as
target for the other mans blows unit
: the other man grows weary and Their
he wades in and cOnquers. When Mel
son grows stale through length of SER
vice. if another Durable Dane can bt
located. he may fall heir to the Battl-
Iers laurels and triumph over the fellow
who has the real science of boxing
down TO the finest of points.
Then there is Stanley Ketchel, an
other worlds champion. To what schoo
does he belong? To the writer it ap
~ pears that KetchePs method of hghtlns
!, is merely a succession of shifts. H'
. wades i inland over hand, and, benz!
10 possessed of rare hitting power, he gen
orally manages to finish his man at tn
~ first well placed punch.
le Billy Fapke, he of the lifting punch
IN is another who seems to be the produc
re of no particular school, while Jaci
q johnson has a private punch which dc
IN serves to be known as the Johnson up
ct percut. OF a certainty all the iron
I'd rank men in the fighting game appea
ID to be specialists rather than graduate
se OF any combination school.