The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-15
(By ED. HUGHES.)
Copyright, 1920, By The Wheeler
 Syndicate, Inc~)

"Getting on my toes and pumping every ounce in my nervous system to the bursting point, I crashed my right full on the point of the English mans jaw,' is the way Georges Car pentier, the idol of France, describes his 74-second knockout of Joe Beck ett the English heavyweight cham pion. Carpenter fights both offensive ly and defensively on his toes as can be attested by the pictures of the Beckett fight. Delivering or evading punches the gallant Gaul is pirouet- ting about on his toes like a dancing master.
 Carpenter is an exception to the rule governing the foot work of champion fighting men. Most of the worlds greatest fighters have waged their battles flat-footed.
 James J. Corbett was one of the few great ringmen that ever fought Ion his toes.' .Corbett was incessant- ly dancing in and out on the balls of his feet and jabbing the other fe1- lows head off. But you will notice that his record is punctuated by very few knockouts. Unlike Carpenters knockout delivery executed while on the toes, most of the worlds fore most arenic heroes have loosed the knockout from a "set' or flat-footed position. This is the natural "lay- ing'' for the knockout artillery, it would seem, and therefore Carpen- tiers case is the more remarkable. It stamps him as a man who can hit a fearful wallop while cayorting about on the toes and balls of the feet Johnny Dundee is clever and interesting, but he has fewer knock O1ItS tO h is credit than any b0XeT in the ring today.
 Young Griffo the marvellous Aus tralian of a couple of decades ago $ generally conceded to be the cleveres- boxer that ever put on a glove. His ring wiZardry bordered on the super natural. Yet Griffo, who boxed flat footed, had little resource to what is commonly known as Ffoot-work." The Antipodean bobbed his head d fraction of an inch this way or that, or executed a quick duck without all tering his foot position when a punch came his way. It has been said that Griffo once watched a friend in the mirror try to knock his hat off from behind and without turning around or moving his feet the Australia bobbed his head to one side ana spoiled the trick. Griffo's favorite stunt was to stand on handkerchief and challenge anyone to strike him iD the face. Grifo would not move his feet but, by manipulating his cranium could avoid the quickest lunges without difficulty.
 Fitzsinmons, one of the greatest punchers, was strictly a flat-footed performer. All of the famous Cor nishman's knockouts were delivered while Robert the Red was mixing it with both pedals anchored on the floor.
 Jack Johnson used to shuttle around the ring much after the man. ner of Bert Williams. So did Joe Cans. Two cleverer boxers than thess colored stars it would be hard to find. Both were wonderful b1ockers and by picking the other fellows leads off on the forearm or b:cep they had little need of fancy steps. Cans tied his man into knots by skiIlfuI feinting instead of drawing an opening by jumping about his man,
 Bat Nelson always bounded his foe about the ring on flat feet, and his terrific body punches were delivered while he was "planted.' Stanley KetchePs shifting style of fighting was done on the toes. Stanley was another flat-footed demon. It is doubtful if he could have hit the way he did poised on his toes.