Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-27

championship battles to prove that un- aer QueensberrN rules very little in jury ur real punishment occurs. I've always claimed the K. e. wallop is not st all brutal, but quite humane, indeed. A victim of this decisive punch usually, quickly recoVers and seldom feels any ill effects or pain from it, whatsoever II really might be termed the painless punch
 A courageous boxer in q hard battle, except l.e breaks arm or smaShes hand to pieces, rarely feels any pain. When you see a fellow feeling for a sore spot on his face or body which starts to bleed. you can generally put him down for a weak hearted chap.
 Real game fighters do not pay any attention to punishment in the ring. Some of them often battle the harder when they are getting stung by a heavy or sharp blow. They are often very stiff and sore all over after a uine gamester bravely fights on to the end without a whimper in the heat of battle in the rooped arena.
 All plucky fighters are more alarm ed al the blow that dazes them than the one that stings or leaves an ugly mark. They fear the walIop that clouds them into rather a groegy con- dition, unable to properly defend themselves and fight with accuracy a kind of semi knockout punch, as it were.
 How often have I seen men, after receiving one of these half sleeping wallops," clinch and stall until the dizziness wears off and they become normal minded again. But the blow that bruises or hurts. cuts no ice with a dead game fighter who is under fire within the ropes.
 Jim Flynn, the ex-f1reman Of Pueblo, Cal, is one of the gamest men in the ring. He takes all kinds of severe punishment, but he's never really whipped until he is absolutely knock ed out IS flat IS a founder.
 The old fstic war horse invariably says to the referee before he starts in a guelling battle something about as follows: For heavens sake don't stop this fight if I happen to bleed freely. I'm used to that. Tn fact am regular bleeder and when the claret starts to flow from me that's no sign that I am beaten or helpless. So don't stop the fight on that ac- count"
 Nearly all the big men have had a crack at Flynn and some of them have stopped him with a haymaker. And that's the only way they can beat him for he is always there to take all that is coming without the slightest sign of a yellow streak in his composition.
 It is a pitty indeed that such a game. willing. aggressive battler as Flynn did not learn the art of box ing properly in his early days in the ring, especially the skill of blocking, sidestepping and ducking blows, in stead of taking half a dozen In order to get one in. If some o9 the other h1lvyweights had the nerve and heart of Jim, they would he far great CT fighters and always up on top at present.
 It's the fellows like Jim Flynn. Carl Morris. Frank Moran, Gunboat Smith. Billy Miske, Tom Cowler. Jim Savage, Bob Devere, Billy Murray and a hun dred two more who never acquired the fine points of boxing, who are obliged to stand the gaff If these ringsters had only learned the real rudiments of the game how much bet ter off they would be today?
 This is the age of experts in most every line of life and except a man is absolutely proficient in his voca- tion he certainly has a hard road to travel. It's often a mystery to me why men with such splendid phvsiques should enter the ring, and expect to become world beaters, when they have no real pugilistic science or expert of the game.
 Think of placing g big army In com mand of a man who lacked real mill to battle against the sknlful | trained Germans would l not that be fatal farce? So why l should men waste their vitality and | nerves to become fistic champions if | they are not proficient in the manly | art?