The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-24
(Rv Ed. Hughes. )

The popular conception of cham pion fighting type is a fellow who can rap an opponent on the tip or the chin and render him insensible. It has been thus since early history Caesar for instance at Pharsalia or dered his men to fight with short swords for the faces of Pomey's sold- iers. The latter were young, men in the flower of their age and in the heigt1t of their, beauty They didn't relish having the latter disfigured when the >javelins came too fast they buried their faces in their hands turned their backs and fled. It is the same in a street fight. The first inn pulse Is swing to the jaw and for the attacked to avoid a jolt on that particular spot.
 Yet strangely enough it has only been since the advent of Tommy Burns to Pugilistfca's throne t that chin punches have changed the for tunes of champions. Before. that most of the big battles were terminated by body blows.
 John 4. Sullivan was a furious body puncher. His favorite smash was / the "back lung" below the ishSuIder blades. John shot the punch cT across while in the clinches With such vigor did he wie1d this mace like punch that he once knocked his oppenent (Prof. Donovan) down flat on his face, breaking the professor S nose and teeth.
 F9tzsimmons was the greatest body 7 tpuncher of them all. The Cornish man released such a murderous punch that he was afraid to swipe most men on the jaw. In order not to re- tard the growth of the human race F'ftz shifted his attack to a less dan gerous spot-the stomach. He be- came 8 master of scoring hits in this section of the anatomy. Fitz achieved / imperishable fame as a body puncher when he won the championship al Carson from Jim Corbett with the famous solar pleXus punch. He also subdued Sharkey, Ruh1in and scores of others less famous with this wal lop.
 Jeffries studied the Fitzsimmon! method and almost equalled Bobt performances in sending them in jus above the belt Jeff was a natura left handler and his powerful driv to the midsection was very difficul to evade.. He stayed in Sharkey' ribs, and knocked Corbett and Fitz simmons out with body punches il Frisco Fftz SOW the blow coming fo his jaw Halfway Jeff changed it course and reached F1tz's ribs put ting him out.
 Tommy Burns, short as he was, re vived the popularity of the chi knockout. The Canadian termina ted most of his fights with clip to tha spot. Johnson, who succeeded him, al so favored punches to the head. H jerky uppercut in the clinches spe disaster for Burns Ketcheu and Je1 fries Willard used a piston-lik right for most of his knockouts, th point of impact being the chin. DemI sey primes for the knockouts on bi men with fearful dig in the bod But the knockout is his ''bone-crusI err right or left to the chin. CarpeI tier, the European champion is an at vocate of the chin punch knockou It was a robust right on the tpoin that crushed Beckett.
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