Arizona republican., 1913-03-08

thing for any crack American middle 1 sion to cross the herring pond and clean up everything. not only in their own class. but that of q grade higher Frank Craig. the negro who bore the melodious nickname of The liar lem Coffee Cooler was one of the first of our 15S-pound fortune seek CTS to follow out this plan. He wiped out a round dozen of hulkng Britons without reverse, until whipped by Frank Slavia and Dan Creedon. both Australians. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien l trOd in Craig's footsteps at later 1 date. and with greater success. for | Jack never lost a battle while cam paigning in the British isles George | Crisp, Harry Newmier. Jack Seals heavyweight aspirants-feH before | Jack O'Brien. and incidentally he put
 a crimp in Mir. Craig by disposing of | the Cooler" in seven rounds.
 | It is probable that the different 1 styles of milling popular in this coun- 1 try and across the water were re- i sponSible for the failure of the Bri- l tish boxers to reach the American l standard of class. Mitchell won his 1 championship in q boxing tourney for 1 points and sparring for points con l tinued to he the accepted fashion. | Meanwhile we were developing a type of scrappcr who was not content with scoring out victories by dnt of num- | erous taps lightly and gracefully de-
 hvered
 The craze for the knockout domin- atcd all fight patrons, and the boxer 1 who failed to deliver sleep sock l dologer at certain intervals lost his 1 drawing power Such Knockout ter
 TOTS as Bantam Jimmy Barry. Fcath- l crWeights Dixon and McGoVcrn.
 Lightweight Kid Lavignc, Middle weight Tommy Ryan. Heavyweight
 FitZsimmons. were popular idols be-
 cause of their ability to hit and end
 contests in spectacular manner But i the same old conservative groove.
 practicing the quick 'hit-and get ' away system. sidcstepping and duck
 ing to avoid punishment. giving beau
 tiful exhibitions of fancy work but 1 for the most part neglecting the
 Slugging part of the game The re- | suits of these archaic methods can be seen by reference to any of the 1 old record books
 when an English fighter. big or lit -
 tie. stacked up against an American.
 the latter usually took all the Briton l had in stock in the line of frequent Jabs. and at the appointed time tore
 in and sluggcd his adversary into q l state of coma. That was what hap 1 pcned to Walter CroOt when Jimmy
 Barry met him before the London 1 National Sporting club. so it was when Lavigne faced Dick Burge in | the same arena. thus fared the Cool | CT and O'Bricn victims. Jcrf Thorpe.
 a British middIeWcight champ. came
 over here and was squashed by Me
 Coy and Ryan. "Pcdlar" Palmer met l q like fate at the hands Of Terry Me
 Govern at Wcstchcster. N Y. and was whipped again by Harry Harris l in London. These are only d few ex- ampleS, but will suffice to show how
 thoroughly the English fighters were l outclaSScd
 Here and there d Briton snatched
 out q decision. but always among the l feathers and bantams--neV"r among | the bigger men. The smaller chaps | were the first to begin to use their | brains and adopt American methods. l Digger Stanlty. owen Moran and Jcm ! DriscOn were among the pioneers who | abandoned the time -hOnored practice nf boxing merely for points. and. | while none of them developed into 1 sluggcrs of the McGovern type. they