The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-12
English Bantamweight Classy,
but by No Means a Clean
Man With Gloves.
KIDNEY PUNCH STILL
OBJECT OF ATTACK
intercollegiate Boxing Tourna-
ment Is Proposed by uniyer-
sity of Pennsylvania.
BY JEFF THOMPSON.


BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1l.-Controversy
over the kidney punch is spreading.
Boston sports are decided in their opin- |
ION that the kidney blow should be de
elared illegal, and that boxers who en-
ploy it should be disqualified
Hammering the small of man g back
in half chnch is not considered sports
manlikc in modern Athens, and the
same opinion prevails elsewhere. The
Queensberry rules, as they read them,
call for stand.up boxing match, which
interpreted bv reformcrs. means that
kidney punching is ont of order
Frank Moran knocked out Reynolds
few nights ago in the fourth round
of n battle az Brown S gym with a right
hand punch on the Jaw that would have
felled an OK.
Ask any expert on pugilistic affairs
the same question regarding Moran and
he would tell you promptly that the
white race is in a dinged poor way ifi
has TO depend upon Moran. He IS a
sturdy chap, possessing enormous
strength, little cleverness, and appears
to know how TO use his right hand only,
Boxing In Universities.
The University of Pennsylvania is
10 found new intercollegiate boxing
lea que, and William j. Crombie, physi
cal instructor, recently sent letters to
Yale. Princeton. Harvard, Cornell and
Columbia. asking them to assist Penn
sylvania in forming an association.
This is the first step ever taken by,
an American institution of Importance
TO affiliate with the other colleges and
promote the glove game as college
sport.
The boxing class is under the tutclage
of George Decker. who one time was
the professional lightweight champion
of the east Decker is in favor of the
tourney, and thinks that the bouts can
son in the colleges.
Penn has several good men with the
mittens, among them Danny Hutcbin-
son, Larry Miller, James skinner, Liv-
iDgstone Sullivan, T. NJ. Barclay and e.
Roseberry.
1t is expected that some of the col
| leges invited will accept, and that the
first set of college boxing matches ever
held in America will be seen this spring
Burns outpointed Stanley.
All reports to the contrary. frankie
Burns of New Jersey outpointed Digger
Stanley, England S bantamweight cham
| pion. in a ten round bout at the Ma
tional Sporting club of America.
1t wns one Of the fastest battles seen
! in New York for many days, and the
little Briton proved that ne possesses
class. The terrific pace of the early
rounds sapped Stanley's strength, how
ever and he couldp I keep up the pace
that the little American cut out for him.
He quickly grew discouraged, too, and
appeared 10 recognize that he was up
against losing proposition.
a smashing big crowd, the largest T,
saw the bout. As top notch amuse
ments were in order, the receipts must
have run away up into the thousands
of dollars. An unauthorized statement
placed the figures at s,00o-quite a
tidy sum.
Fights Like Bull
Stanley is not clean fighter. There
WASH t time from the second round
when he could not have heen declared
loser had the rules been enforced.
The Englishmau rcsorted TO rough tac
tics and used every foul trick known
! in the squared circle. About the only
thing he didn Z do was kick and bite.
On numerous occasions he would rush
into Burns with head lowered and butt
! the Jerseyite in the stomach. dropping
him to the canvas. When Stanley re-
! sorted to these tactics he resembled
an enraged bull charging matador.
William Warren Barbour. amateur
heavyweight champion of the United
States, was not suspended by the regis
tration committee of the Metropolitan
association. The committee did not even
/ mention his case, although some news
papers said that he was officially sus-
pended BY the association. He was no.
| tilted from headquarters prior 10 the
meeting that he had taken part in an
unsanctioned bout and therefore sus-
pended himself
The only wav in which his case can
be brought up before the committee is
according TO his friends, the wealthy
sportsman will not do this He is quot
ed as saving that be did not care to en-
ter the ranks Of the amateurs again
Barbour's opponent, Garretson, a
member of the Irish American Athletic
| club, will apply for reinstatement
Game Opens in Indianapolis,
An effort to open the boxing game
in Indianapolis will be made by the
Il Mitchell club members, who will stage
a number of bouts February IA, This
II decision was arrived AT following the
acouittal of Willie McGee on the charge
of participating in prize fight, The
i promoters said they want the bouts
conducted under police regulations The
contention of the boxers lis that they
do not box for prizes. but are paid
i stipulated sums win or lose.
i One Of the most stubborn fistic bat
/ ties ever seen at the Knickerbocker
A, c., Albany, n. Y, took place when
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