The Washington herald., 1918-07-31
BLOW ON EAR
.DEMPSEY'S BEST
Jack Sidesteps Kayo on
Chin for Crash Against
the Cauliflower.

Chicago July So.-There is moth
ing new under the sun-so it has
been written, and so be it-and yet.
every now and again, out of the
distant past. some one will revive
an old one. and it is in effect as
good as a new one-or better.
This applies. for instance, to old
coins, old Jewels, old drinksAand
boxing. From time to time freak
punches are developed in this latter
freak boxers have come up like
a fish. The solar plexus was the
marvel-and the moral-of a day.
The Knockout on the chin and all
the rest came to US from time to
time. and some of them became
regular institutions in the ring
sport.
But occasionally an unusual fell
low looks backward. as 1t were. sees
a good one; grabs it, makes it his
own, and. discarding all the accept
ed data OF the day. picks up some
thing of yesteryear. and by handling
it carefully makes a great name for
himself
For example, there's Jack Demp-
sey, who fought yesterday. The
young heavyweight wonder from
the West. got.to looking about a bit.
He figured it out. and as a result
discarded the blow on the chin as
his great knockout feature. He went
back to the days gone by. the days
of bare knuckle sighting, and adopt
ed the blow under the ear or on the
jugular vein. as the big kick with
which to put the foe down and out
Jack got to it along these lines
he figured that the modern fighter
had worked out his lines. to the al
most absolute exclusion of every
thing else. So he set about to pick
out some vulernable spot where the
guards weren't sticking round.
Where was it they used to land
the fatal knockout. those old boys.
whom most of the moderns seem to
have forgotten?
Was it on the jugular and under
the ear? 7
Spider Kelly-how was it he used
to put 'em under?
Jack began to think it over in
earnest. get out his little practising
art and worked overtime developing
the hit them around the ear" meth
| cd. Then he tried an offensive
against the neck. and as the moderns
had all their troops massed around
I the chin and face, the result was
! startling
In an attack from any enemy Jack
would slap him off his balance by a
sharp sweep of his arm, and as the
! opponent went BY he would step in
with a regular right handler to the
to-
punches there was as good or even
better than in constantly aiming at
the well-protected chin. He began
topping them over in big hurry.
His success Is due to one thing
the revamping Of old stun, dolled up
in modern venacular, as it were, ap-
piled against new stun, grown old.
All this old stuff had been discarded
in the attic of the boxing world after
the mighty John l. and his smart
handkerchief among them Billy
Madden-discovered that a tightly
padded fist suddenly and conclusively
in collision with the point of mans
Jaw brought man heavily and usual
ly for the fatal ten count.
The old timer who preceded John L.
and his successors aimed for a point
on the neck just below the car and
got his results that way.
To see how 1t -works-Dempsey
knocked Dan Flynn out in a round re-
Gently at Atlanta. Ga.-so easily that
from coast to coast the fans cried
SET up" Did you ever know "Porky''
Flynn in a set up" when you come
TO think of It? Not Porky-it was
simply that Dempsey's old time stun
was something new to Flynn.
Then it comes down to this-there
Is nothing new under the sun-it has
all been done before, and vet, II you
would win the little fighting world
or anywhere else, perhaps-one way
is to slip over an old one-an old one
so old that to the new ones it's new
and you can get away with it'-if
you're as smart and lucky as Demp-
sey.