Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-05-20
BEST PUNCH,
EXPERT DISCUSSES
BEST BODY BLOWS
UPPERCUT is CONSIDERED
MOST DEADLY PUNCH
Each Boxer Has Different Ideas on
q" Subiect-Right Cross Is Much
Used by Pugs.

ooSe w ubs.
Which Is the most effective. punch
known 10 modern pugilistic science2
This question came up ut a chance
gathering OF sporting notables the other
evening. and when each of those pres
ent had had his say. the argument re-
manned unsettled, says w. II. Naugh.
ton.
Among laymen II Is like the old
controversy, which Is the prettlost--
gray eyes, blue, or brown? There are
individual fancies In such matters, and
you pay your compliments and you
takes your choice"
II you leave the question OF the most
effective punch to number OF promi-
nent fighters, there Is likely to be u
hung jury. Each fellow would boost"
for the blow he loves best. Stanley
Ketchel would say 1.-THE good old ov-
erhand swing topples them ALL"
Tommy Burns, in view OF the havoc
II worked TO Bill Squires and others,
would hold that the right cross Is the
punch that brings home the money.
Jack Johnson says the uppercut for
mine"
Bat Nelson would murmur, Take
what you like, but leave me the half.
scissors hook" whatever that Is.
Abe Attell would probably declare
the straight left hurts more than any.
thing.
Bob Fitzsimmons would probably
ask time to decide (which of his favor
lite assaults. the left shift or the solar
plexus punch, wrought the mos. injury
to an opponent.
| And SO on.
Each of these fellows would be sin
cere In his ideas, for there are special.
lists In pugilism as in other lines OF
the thing you like best.
Looking back across the years, II
seems to the writer that the old famil-
lar right cross-the crack of the dex-
ter glove which takes man on the
chin, or maybe trihe more toward
the ear-is the blow that budding
champions have been taught to pin
their faith to- The lesson of recent
championships, however, is that the
right cross is falling into disuse. It is
hard to figure out how such changes
are worked. but Il Is just possible
that time, which Is always engaged In
healing work, has devised 80 many
antidotes for the right-cross that our
modern ring men think Il a waste OF
time to wait for openings, and have
turned their thoughts to other methods
Of torture.
| ANY one who Is In the habit of at
tending glove contests must have no
ticed that the average fighter elevates
his left shoulder and sinks his chin
directly he strikes an attitude in front
of an adversary. The pose has be.
come almost universal. and II is the re.
suit OF training camp warnings and
latent fear of the dread right-cross.
Other provisions, against ysltations
from the right-cross have been de
vised, and as consequence, while this
famous punch is In no danger Of be
coming obsolete. 1t has been packed
away In lavender for the time being
Any one doubling this has only to re
call what has happened in recent glove
contests Of magnitude, and then bic
white light will illumine the argument
The right uppercut Is beyond doubt
the most effective punch known &c
modern pugilistic kind.
II Is the blow that enabled Ad VOL
CAST to take the championship away
from Battling Nelson. 1t did not send
Nelson TO the floor, but It bruised his
face into an unlovely mass and II sap
ped his strength.
II was the right, uppercut that scored
for Jack Johnson every time he faced
a ring rival, and 1t was the right up
percut that made Sam Langford the
DOGGY man of both the middle and
heavy weight classes. =
Billy Papke. who Is the typical fight
er OF the American school, Is at his
best when using the lifting punches
and Joe Cans, in the closing fights OF
This career, used his right In uppercut
ting more than in any other way.
tits furnishing blow and hard one
to circpmYent and while the writer
believes 1t figures more In prize ring
victories nowadays than any of the
other punches known to the noble
art" no attempt is made to claim that
the uppercut Is an innovation
There was discussion recently In
England as to "the inventor or intro
ducer OF the uppercut' and British
critic pointed ont that the uppercut
was In use over 100 years ago. He
said that when Samuel ELIAS, known as
Dutch Sam, and Caleb Baldwin. the