Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-14
REMTNTSCENCES
BY DUNBAR FOR
THE RING FANS
Local Follower of the Sport Tells About Some Of the Pu-
giiists and Bouts He Has Seen-Some interesting His
tory--Refers to Recent Matches in This City.

An interesting letter on the bog
ing game has been received from
John Dunbar, who is we'll verBed In
the sport His letter Is as follows:
Perth Amboy, Feb. IA, 1919.
Sporting Editor of NEWS:
Since boxing has been allowed In
this city at the clubs one hears
much In regard to mems abilities,
different Impressions are formed;
can two men sit through a bout and
size the men up In the same way at
the end? ] think not.
Not long since ] sat In the Audi
torinm In which a pair who were
billed as middleweights took part.
One of the men had been touted In
advance in the local press as being
s possible contender for the worlds
w~elterweight title, And following
the bouts the local papers Landed his
work, and particularly his foot
work. / could not agrees with the
opinions so given OF him. My inn
preston was that he had no wonder
full boxing c~leverness, and that the
many men whom he Is said to have
defeated were beaten by him
through his staying powers and his
ability to slug and that alone. He
was not clever In a boxing way. and
to my way of thinking NJ mar can
claim to possess good foot work who
Is not equally clever with his hands.
Unless he ia the latter his foot work
does little to help, as his legs are as
apt to lead him into danger as out
of 1t. Iesaw this much praised man
land an overhead swing satrly on top
of his opponents head. Is that q
blow q good teacher OF boxing will
teach to q pupilf 1t does not re-
qnire much knowledge of boxing fol
one to know that such q blow car
do little harm except TO the sender
OF 1t, who by using 1t IL liable tt
break a hand.
Some who read this win say, whai
does that sucker know about goot
boxing? Where did he see 1t. II
Kentucky Hall? A word as to this
i have been a lover of athletics al
my life and OF boxing particularly
and have seen many OF the starsSo
other days and the present perform
and il / ana not capable TO pass al
opinion on mems abilities 1t Is be
cause / have not been ~obseFvant, O.
that ] am lacking In intelligence.
win aane n few OF the men / hav
seen perform, but have not space q
time To 40 into detail and descrl5
6tbpn a1 Nhere ana wIth whom ths
haxa 2tker jackson ard 151s,z11
E'ifzs jim ffa4fI Shadow Makas 81
George IsAwsUn, In San FrAfacfDei
at the WIEwam; Charles Mitchell
Jack Burke, Clarendon Hall. Mes
York; t~wenty-four or five years ago
Young Critic, George Lavigne ami
Jerry Marshall. 1895, at the Seaside
Athletic Club, G. Island; Dom Nc
CARRY. referee.
Critic on thfs nieht bowed an av
amateur, a come back man, Eddie
Loeber. of Brooklyn. Lavigne box
ed ten rounds with Jerry Marshall
colored, an Australian: also another
Australian heavyweight boxed, Mecl
Dunn. his opponent being an ey
champion amateur middleweight
Jim Butler, Of Brooklyn. Corbett
saw box six rounds in Brooklyn witt
Dominic Mccaffrey; this was Cor
belts first appearance in the East
| saw Mccoy In training box al
Bohm's roadhouse. Staten Island.
He was preparing for his match with
Dan Creeden.
I have also seen Billy Smith and
| Regain IA short bouts, and Sam Cans