TRICKS OF SELFDEFENCE.

: . . (New York Sun.) " There is a lot of talk about new methods »f self-defence," said an old sporting man, " but it seems to me that it is only an elaboration of what almost every man who followed the game in past days had to know or go under. ;, "Niifr, take the case of that Jap a few ■vv'eeks ago in' New York. He bad drunk ■"a. -little wine and was making a noise and jeo Was arrested. . Be was a little man, but "ifctouk ten big policemen to haudle him •without hui'tiug him. ■ He did riot strike llfen— siiriply siung them a-round. All .be did was to upset their balance. This is a iwmiiierful specialty of these people. • "Jvo.w, 1 -remember seeing tho same thing fdone years .-ago in a row at New Orleans, il and another man were set on by the men •on tho levee beca-iise we hkd made some big ■.winnings,- and I was for pulling my gUn, AviJen my pal said— 'l\ T o; you'il bring the o>v)'i6le roost on us. There are only six of iliem. You take the -big one, and Til atteijd to the others.' j.--': He was a tall., muscular Irishman, and Hip -first man he tedded was a big mulatto wjth muscles like an ox. He rushed at him, and the mulatto stepped to one side, throwingphis balance on to his left leg as he lifted his right arm for a swing. My pal caught him by the right elbow as the arm went back, slid to his wrist, twisted it, caught him. by the trousers, waist, lifted him, and threw him at tbe others, felling two and breaiking the mulatto's right arm. " One of the others rushed at him with a knife, and he reached as if to shake hands, caught the man off his balance, pulled him forward, placed his foot behind the man's nearest leg and then, throwing his chest and full weight against the man, tripped him and fractured his skull. "The other fled, and I had my man down and was sitting on him. My pal's cigar never even went out, and I could not understand how he did it until he told me af terwArds. " "I went down to the West Indian Islands once. Well, I learned a trick there. There was a big row one night in the street. One man on foot was attacked by three men. He only carried an ordinary stout cane, and as they set on him he backed against a wall, holding the cane in both kinds across his chest. One man rushed in on him from the left; another from the right, the third remaining a little way off in case he should slip -past the others and run. "Quickly stepping to one side, he dodged the left man. Both hands went up in the air, the left hand pointedthe lower end of the cane at the base of the man's throat, there was a quick swing of the arms downward, the lower end of the cane jarred on the upper part of the sternum, and the fellow dropped as if shot, howling with pain. The next man followed and the third bolted. " Then the man rolled and lit a cigarette, and walked away. I have tried that trick with^gpod effect. Done rightly, it is a dead sure* fall, and a pretty hard one. It is even" better than the old trick of leading at the forehead with the open palm, thrusting the liead back and getting in with the left under the jaw. " Another very good plan is, if tackled by • two or more assailants, to get with the back to a wall and with a light cane or umbrella prod at their eyes. A well-known drygoodsman was attacked four years ago, and put one fellow's eye out and tore a°second man's nose. " Not long ago someone asked Bob Fitzsimmons what w.is the best thing for a man, unversed in self-defence, to do when tackled, and he said, ' Whip off your hat, or pull out your handkerchief, dash it in the face of the man, and quickly follow it up with a lefthand blow on tho solar plexus.' " Now, this is all right, but how many men not accustomed to the gloves Or the punching bag can hit a blow worth bothering about with the left hand? Let some of them try it, and^ they will be astonished! Bob's idea is all right, however."