The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-08
Corbett's Daily Letter
 On Great Sport Topics
By JAMES J. coRBnTr.

Jaw was within easy reach of a right handler. Quick as flash, Dempsey let him have it-and the show was over.
 It was marvellous work by master rlngman-and Dempsey, for that triumph the famous heavyweights in ring his. tory,
 Not so very long ago Benny Leonard made this statement:
 I'd much rather work out in a gym nasium with half dozen of the best men of my weight than I would with ore dub. It is less dangerous
 Leonards statement surprised quite a number of persons. The ordinary fight fan figures that a topnotcher usually has no fear of novice. But the contrary is the case, because a dub" is more like to cause serious injury to a boxer than are dozen first-class ringmen.
 Leonards remark was provoked through an incident that came about in the gym naslum one afternoon when he he was working out for his bout with Jack Brit ton. He had taken on some of the best boys and had about finished the days work when a youngster, almost devoid of boxing experience, appealed to Leonard for "tryout." Leonard was reluctant, but because the youngster begged so insistently, the champion agreed Right at the outset the boy unschooled in real ring tactics, began to hit low In clinches he would try his best to pound Leonard's ear. Twice he broke from clinches with his back to Leonard, and. thinking Leonard was going to hit him, swung his arm around and twice the elbow barely grazed Leonard's chin. 
 It is that kind of fighting" that one usually must expect from a novice, and am frank to say that during my own career, I always avoided the "dubs'' as much as possible. They can work ire parable harm to fighter just because they don't know how to handle them- selves. In moments of excitement they are as likely to kick or to knee" an opponent, butt or gouge and so disfigure or ruin his career.
 A few years ago fighter, working out for an important bout, took on sucker" at the windup of his training, and be- fore the round had gone two minutes, the topnotcher had to quit. The novice had rushed into him head first and had butted him in the mouth, splitting his lip for distance of four inches. knock ing out two teeth.
 Joe Cans. in the heydey of his career, wasn't afraid of any fighter that lived except a dub. Joe would just as soon have fought heavyweight as he would a novice lightweight. That is because Joe. at the outset, took on boob" and figured on boxing with him. But the boob, in the excitement following the ending of the round, jumped after Joe as he had turned to go back to his corner and hit him a blow from behind that nearly broke Joe's neck.
 These are only few instances of the great harm that "dubs' can do in the ring. No first-class fighter who has lea armed through. the experience of others ever will have anything to do with a dub. The cauliflower ears that belong to Mike Gibbons. Freddie Welsh and other scientific men, really are due to wild swings by dubs while in training. They happened early in the career of those men and immediately afterward those boys joined the never again. club.
 No champion who is cautious ever puts a dub in his training camp. ''Dubs' come cheap; they'll work for only small sal ary And some ambitious ones gladly win work for the experience which they gain. But any topnotch fighter who hires that type of partner" certainly takes tremendous chances on ruinging his own career.