The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-04
W0lGAST WOULD
FARE BADLY NOW
Naughton Believes the Boxer
Would Find It Hard I'm
!. ner New Rules
(By w. ". Naushton.l

(By w. W. Naughton.)
San Francisco. Nov. 4.-This is the
way 1t reads:
Hereafter in all fights in the state
OF New York the Contestants must
oreak clean In the clinches. This was
decided upon yesterday by the New
York state athletic commission at a
meeting held In this city. The COM
mission no longer favors the old prac-
tice N which the fighters could pro.
tect themselves in the clinches."
1t be true? II so. farewell to
the loop-de-loop and the br~east-grax-
Ing uppercut. For, with the loop you
have something to cling to before
n breast-grazer the only man you
could hit under the clean break sys-
TEN would be yourself.
furthermore, exit the Ad Wolgasts
h Battling Nelson's and enter
the Matt Wells and the Freddie Wei.
ches. Welcome the straight left and
the sweeping right and says goodbyes
to the hundred and n little pokes
ano prods that q fighter can only de-
against an opponents chest.
II was the way they boxed years
ago. and the New York state athletic
commission has ordered a return TO
the first principles.
But u 1t fair to the generation of
American boxers that has built up a
new system of glove-craft-a system
nat has overshaoowed the old
Observation-Disclosures method of
boxing as completely as magazine
rifies have superseded the muzzle
leaders Of fifty years ago.
1t was the. tight yourself loose.
style OF milling that gave US Terry
McGovern, Battling Nelson, Ad VOL
CAST, Billy Papke and others too num-
erous to mention. If the clean break
system. which "a never been rigidly
California Athletic club, had been in
sisted upon right along, there would
have been no Battling Nelson's and
consequently no Ad Wolgaste.
Joe Cans, under the rules in uues-
ton. would. have kept in the fore OF
champions until outlawed from the
game: by increasing years and declin-
Ing health.
l. Then some clean-break specialist
would have usurped the premiership
OF the lightweight division and held
the Nelson's and Wolgasts ~successfully
at bay.
The news Of the clean-break re.
naissance will be heard with Joy in
england. where every boxer regards
a referees as his masters voice.
and disentangles himself from elm
cnes with lightning speed, so as to
minimize the prospects Of disqualif-
cation.
And It is not fear of the referee
alone that breeds In the English
prutser q hair trigger readiness to
break when called upon. Much
breaking and much stepping away
means the Introduction Of many little
rests that r not otherwise provided
Tor IN z three-minute spell Of boxing.
the boxer to waste his strength in
wrestling and wriggling and striving
to blanket the free-arm punches, to
say nothing Of the battering It saves
him from II he happenes to be hold
ing and the other man engaged in
fighting himself loose. he-break-at-
Observation-Disclosures style of box
Ing Is the n that has always found
favor with the English ringmen and
there will be widespread satisfaction
over the water when the news Of the
action Of the New York commission
reaches there. It was announced re.
Gently that a small band Of the pick
OF the British boxers intended jour-
neying to New York this fall.
When they hear the glad tidings
they may sail for this country sooner
SAs~sA navy P4OPO0Cus WILL tIc re-
vival Of the "hit, block and get away
method Of milling. New York will
seem "just loike 'ome' to the trans.
Atlantic pilgrims.
Wonder what the dear public will
think Of the restoration Of refined
fsticuffs?
There is 10 much to be said in favor
OF clesn,break boxing. Where the
.C~l9VATnaAN. a contest Ia much SNHRo In.
teresttng to, watch than one of the "go-
as-you-please bouts that have found
favor in recent years. But in case Of
mixed company-that Is. where one
fellow Is clever and the other a pro-
duct Of the "hght-yourself-loose
school--it 10 easy enough to imagine
where the credit would go in q limit
ed match.
And. from the wide difference in
the style Of opponents. It is not clear
how the spectators can derive any
particular enjoyment from the affair.
When in his heyday, Battling Nelson
spoke once or twice Of visiting Lon
don and tackling the British boxers
on their native heath. 1t was pointed
the direction OF an English referee he
would be az harmless as a muzzled bull
terrier. The Battler thought it over
and stayed at home.
Now. in a way. England is coming
to us. Now the favorite way Of fight
ing according to London standards, is
to prevail in New York, and Wolgast
will be in the position Nelson would
have been In had the Battler invaded
London.
II the order Of the New York COM
mission ID as infinite Is 1t appears on
paper, Tom Jones may we'll be tremb.
ling for the fate Of his champion, for
in q ten-round bout with clean breaks,
1t seems as though Matt Wells Of Lon
don, would te a top-heavy favorite
ove Wol9ast Of Cadillac.
NAY CHALLENGE VARSITY.
It is understood that as soon as the
university has the A. G. game won Cor
lost).. and the Grand Forks high school
has the Fargo high school put out Of
the running Cor leaves 1t high and dry
above the tides Of misfortune and de-
{Anfl that Coach 0,KAAfe will issue