The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-21
FITzSIMMONS ABOUT
ONLY SINGLE PUNCH
MAN EVER PRODUCED
BY FRANK q. MENKp

NC MOoI ullIlCulL IdSk III. puSuou
is to finish a rival with one smack.
It's been done-but history shows
that except In few isolated cases it
was mere accident than anything.
/ Bob Fftzsimmons was the only one
punch finisher the heavyweight ranks
mas produced; perhaps the only fight
| er OF that type that the entire ring
game has brought to the fore. Other
divisions, at different times, have
flashed fighters who knocked over one,
two or sometimes three men With a
single blow. But later events proved
those incidents of rather accidental
nature.
| Five years ago Willie Jackson came
from out of nowhere, rushed at Johnny
dundee with the opening gong, hit
him on the chin with a right handler
and Dundee was counted out for the
first and only time during his career.
jackson was hailed as the hitting won
der of the universe. Yet in nearly a
dozen trials since then against Dundee
The hasn't been able to floor him, and
in more than 200 other battles his
| knockout work has lacked the spectac-
ular.
Beats Down Man.
Benny Leonard never was a one
punch man. It's always necessary for
him to beat down his man before he
can put over the goodnight slap. All
the other lightweight champions with
the exception Of Joe Cans, were I'M
able to finish men with one punch,
with any degree of consistency Bat
Nelson once hit a man on the jaw
i with the opening punch of the fight,
and ended the show right then and
there. But Bat never repeated the
trick against any one else.
Cans was the greatest of all light
weight fighters. When he did land
| solidly the men usually went down
and stayed there. But it was often
necessary for Cans to soften up his
opponent with jabs and body punching
in clinches to reduce him to a point
where solid drive would end the
contest.
John L. Sullivan, great puncher
though he was never was able to
finish up with one blow. 1t needed
several. Jim Corbett was not hitter.
Jim Jeffries, tremendously powerful,
lacked the punching snap necessary
10 put away for the long, long count,
although once he did save his cham
pionship by hitting Jim Corbett on the
chin with wild swing which connect
ed and put out Corbett. Jack Johnson
was puncher, not a boxer. Jess
Willard was never much of anything
except a clumsy cowboy.
Dempsey Hits often.
:. Mighty a hitter as Jack Dempsey is
he hasn't shown the power to finish
good men with one drive. He put
away many dubs with one smack-but
that's no great trick. Against tough
foremen, Dempsey found it necessary
to hit several times-sometimes to hi
, dozen or hundred times-before he
could win.
He hit Georges Carpenter about 10C
blows before the French man wa:
through, he hit Billy Miske 20 times
at least before Billy collapsed in Ben
ton Harbor. Dempsey hit Willard
about 200 mighty shots in Toledo be
fore Willard decided he had enough
He hit Bill Brennan a dozen times il
a dozen rounds in New York before
he could win. And so it has gone.
Fitzsimmons was different. He hi
Peter Maher i2st one punch on the
chin-and Pete was out for three min
in clinches to reduce him to a poinr
pound giant fell so hard he nearl!
smashed the floor of the ring. HI
landed only one solid smash agains
utes. He hit Ed Dunkhorst, the ''hu
punch was of the knockout variety.
The record of Fitz is replete will
one-punch triumphs
But beyond Fitz the ring has beer
almost devoid Of men who could viii
and win consistently-with one wei
aimed smash. For the trick is ont
that belongs only to the super-man o
Il the gloved arena.
Copyright 1921 BY King Features
| Syndicate. Incl