The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-15
Tricks of Boxing Used BY Old
Champs is Lost Art---CorbeH
Former Fistic King Laments the Crudeness With Which
Present Champions and Near Champions Practice
Game In lo2l-Names Forgotten Tricks

know how to relieve the strain on
their muscles while the battle is being
fought. AS result, they all tire
easily and slow up as the rounds pass
along.
There isn't champion today who
knows the real science of blocking
punches. They all catch them with
their hands close to their heads When
that happens, the blow drives their
hands and arms back to their heads
and momentarily their vision is OBJ
scured by their own hands or those
of their opponents. Then they can't
hit back even if there is an opening.
There is only one real way of
blocking. That is to do it with your
hands far out from your own body.
When you do that. you catch and fend
off the blow before it has gathered
sufficient force to drive back your
hands when you stop it. Secondly,
by so doing, your own view is not
obscured. The other man is carried
toward you with the swing of his
punch and, if you are lightning fast,
you can hit him before he can duck
cut of range
Countering won a multitude of fights
In my time. If any man of today
learned the trick, he'd probably be
able to whip any man in his class
solely by the use of it. For no one
else seems to know it and therefore
everybody would be mark for it.
Tactics Lack Finish.
Fighters of today battle along the
slug-slug lines. 1 haven't seen one
who uses the old hit-stop-getaway
system. They step in and whale away
at each other. Neither seems to
worry about how often he is hit. His
program is to swing and keep on
swinging in the hope that he'll land
a knockout wallop or win a decision by
landing oftenest.
IF either man gets tired swinging
his arms, he falls into a clinch and
keeps right on climbing until he is
rested up-or until the fight is over.
1T was my system of fighting to hit
the other fellow as often as possible
and never let him hit me if it was
humanity possible for me to save my
self. The basic law of boxing lis:
Protect yourself from being hit and
They've forgotten that apparently.
For defense plays but little part in
any of the modern fistcuffing. All
they try to do now is to hit the other
fellow, caring little how sadly they
may be battered up during their
efforts.
Through Training Fighters
only once since | hung up my fight
ing gloves for the last time have |
taken any active part in the training
or any man. That was in 1910 when |
was in Jim Jeffries' camp in Reno.
And l resolved long ago that I'd never
attempt the development of any
fighter
But sometimes. when I see the
champions of today swinging and
laundering around the ring, operating
practically without a real defense, I'm
tempted to forget that resolve; tempt
ed to get some youngster with a good
physique and a fighting spirit, and
then teach him the art of boxing as in
my day.
II that boy proved an apt pupil:
II ne had courage and brains, together
with physical power, I'd make a big
gamble that after a year or two of
teachlng, as the oldtimers were taught
NED make every man in his class look
Ike lame selling platter in a stake
horse race"
copyright 1921 BY King Features
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