Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-29

degree as the French. The great
Irish and Irish-American boxers, and
the Welsh, have had less fury If more
skill; but since the Americans taught
the, world that fighters like Battling
Nelson, who can rush and punch
without interTnission for twenty
rounds or more, are nearly always
certain to defeat pure bowers, @tlae.
speed and fury offthe French fighter
have become a wonderful factor in
the ring" x
Compared with English and Ameri-
can boxers, too, the French are won.
derfully serious. They ask no quar-
ter and they give none There is no
rancor or vice" about their fighting.
Once the contest is over, they kiss
the beaten man or the victor as the.
case may be-the kiss being an insti-
tuition in the Paris ring. In the ring.
too, the French display the highest
craftsmanship at times. But they go
into a contest to win and often their
deadly earnestness in using every
legitimate means to that end is mis-.
taken for something less laudable.
French writer's and speakers have
had to create language to fit the de-
votion of the French to the prize-fight
"a devotion quite new and modern.
First and foremost. the language of
the prize-ring among the French has
been borrowed from the United
States, not from England. But in
spite of having to build up a language
OF sport and to learn in generation
what the Ang1o-Saxon has developed
in centuries, French prize-fighting is
a live force to Mr.. Stephen Black. He
anticipates even greater tTiumphs of
French prize-fghters o. over Anglo
Saxons than was that of Carpenter
over Bombardier-the most famous
episode in any ring, he thinks, since
John L. Sullivan was knocked out by
James J. Corbett. The explanation is
that: in sport, as in poetry and in war,
there are cycles. The Anglo-Saxofl,
after centuries, is losing his superiori-
ty in the prize-ring. He is passing
through period of slackness during
which the great truth will be realized
that supremacy can not be maintained
by tradition but only by unTearied
spirit and progress in methods.
Against the theory that the French
prize-fighter has more brains than the,
Anglo-Saxon we are warned emphati.
cally by Mr.. Black Paradoxieal as It
may seem, he says, brains are han.
dicap to the man in the ring. The
great French prize-ighters of today
are rather inferior mental types
THE lower the mental type of man
the less sensitive is he to physical
pain. An Englishfnan cannot stand
the same bodily battering as. negro
because he is a higher mental type
The negro taught to box with the In
telligent methods of the white man is
the greatest fighting machine in the
world because the acquisition of skill
full boxing is in itself no great mental
feat but largely a matter OF physical
aptitude On the other hand, impervi-
business to punishment due to the alb
sence, of a highly neryotis mental or
ganizatfon can never be impaired
People joke about the negro's hard
head; but there is sound basis Of
truth for this. A negro actually is
in every way less sensitive than a
white man.
THE most brilliant, artistic minds
suffer the keenest sorrows and the
greatest joys. Alcohol has far more
effect on man of high mentality than
on one of low Similarly. pugifist
of a sensitive. artistic. or emotional
nature would be much more affected
by blow than would one Of the pure
" physical type.
Men like James ]. Corbett, Kid
Mccoy and Philadelphia Jack