El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-05-25
Tricks In Every
Trade But Ours
Boxers Born and Not Made" Are Failures; Wher-
ever Great Boxer Appears, Great Teacher May
Generally Be Found Not Far Distant
By ROY ElIIK


There are two convincing proofs
I that the first thing q young boUel
Z should do is 20 seek good teachers
I The first and strongest proof Is thai
Z nearly all great boxers have beer
Z the pupils Of great boxers. and dub.
I the students Of the sOcaued natura
! born lighters who use no brains in
] their work and in some cases have
I none to use Secondly. the life OF
I Robert F'itzimmons and other box
I ers who have sought TO use brains in
I their work and only came to good
I teachers late in their career.
Great Pupils Great Teachers.
In the first case proof is abundant
Mccoy was the pupil Of Rush. Tommy
Ryan and Bob FitZimmous From the
beginning Of his career 10 the time
I he engaged with James J. Corbert
train with the best" This he did
with the natural result O'Brien was
Z the pupil of Corbett. Rush, Mccoy:
James j. deffries was the pupil OF
Z Gentleman jim" as was also Tommy
Ryan COrbett himself was the Du-
pil OF the original Jack Dempsey. the
nouparelL
Tom shRrIey, Joe Grimm. Nike
Seilreck. Gus Ruhlln. Tommy
Burns. Marvin Hart. Battling Nell
son, GuIibOat Smith, hid Broad
are all fine examples of the type
Va muAENa AAlAA IL F-WMEM ana not
made" but not one OF them O.
fine example Of first rate
boxer. In almost all of their
cases they either were not under
past masters rs teachers or else
came under the Influence Of real
boxers after they were so set in
their style that brains formed
hut little part Of their boxing
combination.
There are some cases as in the one
OF "Lanky Bob" who defeated all the
best in Australia without having
studied under a really great boxer.
although he was continually hunting
the best. Fiyz really learned the
more valuable part OF his art in
doing IT. Counts.
There is equally as much danger in
making brains too big a part Of box
Ing as making it too little. or. rather.
making the tongue too big fac
tor There IS tendency to gather
too much theory and not put 10 into
execution we'll The writer remem-
oers taking a lesson from J. Court
neT Rush at one time when Rush
three times cautioned his pupil not
TO duck away from a left lead into a
right uppercut His pupil continued
TO do the same thing. The fourth
time IL occurred Rush landed on the
pupiIs Jaw with a right upper that
lallAANA Allt recipient imp on q coal
pile nearby. After that the pupil re-
membered his instruction.
Word Of mouth instruction fin box
ing is a delusion and a snare unless
the teacher is man Of action and
insists or fistic exemplification TO
the Nth knock out degree have
known some good instructors who re-
fused TO talk to their pupils insist
ing that they use their eyes and
senses. and bringing to their forcible
attention the tricks OF the trade by
oft repeated assaults OF the same kind
until the pupil got wise to the method
employed to decorate his visage or
unhitch platoon OF ribs.
Go to the Masters.
The boy who wishes to become an
efficient boxer should never lose
sight OF McCOy's method hike out and
train with the best OF them-studv
with those who have made success. no
matter what the game you are seek
ing TO learn-even If you have TO walk
or ride in box cars to get there That's
the way Mccoy got to Ryan and Fit
zimmons and the teaching he received
made him champion later. Neither
Ryan nor Fitz ever talked TO Mccoy
q bout the science OF hoIinC-au they
did was TO hammer him. But he was
there to find out how the hammer
Ing was done and observed ana prac-
ticed so well that he later returned
90 meet Ryan and give him the worst
drubblng Of his life as well as taking
the middleweight crown from Tommy.
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