LANGFORD TROUNCES JEANNETTE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 3, 9 February 1914, Page 11

LANGFORD TROUNCES JEANNETTE.

......THE BOXES OUTFOUGHT. Showing an all too prominent embonpoint, the Boston,'' tar-baby,' ' Sam Langford, gave that and many physical disadvantages in to Joe Jeannetto, and ,then trounced his man soundly in France a month or so ago. The London correspondent of the Sydney " Sun "_ forwarded to his paper a vivid account of the battle, portions of which arc appended. The Luna Park Stadium was crowded #ith fashionable folk (he writes). Bored women and blase men, seeking Aevv sensations, were there in droves. The toilets of the front row were Worthy of Versailles. The. master of

foe ceremonies announced that the i match was "Pour-le Championnat du ( Hviule.'' Georges Carp'entier was [ called upon to euter -the ring'with the two, black men to gratify the idolising uistinct of the crowd, and ' he bowed sweetly to the ladies and''waved his harkd : to the men. ;-.',. .>i .Theitfight itself was.a serious affair. The two men had mat several times' {previously, and the utmost good-fel-itowship.-has subsisted between, them. r J.eaimeltte is more a yellow man than a blaiekinian. His saffron sddn is whiter (

; than.-that of many Europeans. ; He is . tadlwi than Langford, and- built on ■' tota»riy different lines, being lithe, and ; Jean, and springy, and full of nervous force. He is a most beautiful boxer, ,; perhaps an even cleverer . big man. at boxing, pure and simple, than Jack. .> and he has the pluek of a ■ : t Hion. In v previous contests,; which • have always proved very lucrative, : he men have invariably spared one another, but on Saturday night they

were out for keeps. If they were not, then the only improvement that either could show would be to kill the other. ONE COCKSUBE COMBATANT. Langford stripped burly, though not so pulpy -as when Jeannette gained; the verdict against him at the end of 10' rounds in New York in October. He said afterwards that he had only had niri#d&ys to train. It shows how confident and cocksure he must, have felt thafc he would ri§Jc his reputation! by facing Jeannette upon an insufficient preparation. -Jeannette had, too, |the moral strength which, is derived from the sympathy of the spectators, as;the greater portion of the house was there to see him-win., It had only hard thoughts and cold eyes for Langford, but the Boston Tar Baby stood his chilling reception with the aplomb of a graven image. Even during the contest, when Jeannette landed a blow which shook him a bit but did not rattle him, and the crowd cheered ecstatically, he merely shook his head in a mournful manner, and put some extra weight and speed behind his body punches with which he gradually broke down Jeannette's defence, and finally his resistance. SOLID IN-FIGHTING. Fighting at a distance, Jeannette was the better man on points, but Langford had no intention of letting his opponent run up a score against him by dainty and artistic shadow sparring, lie took control of the fight from the opening round. He bored in n.nfl iTisisterl liTirm in-fiarVitinc* T-Tiq

ami insisieu upon m-ngnxing. jriis swings with both hands were tremen-' dously severe. If Jeannette had not been possessed of extraordinary quickness of eye and judgment of distance he would very soon have been taking the count. As it was, whilst Langford was busy uppercutting, jolting, and jabbing, Jeannette was also fully occupied with some very hot and fast left 3 to the head and

rights to the body. But while his left leads .finally drew blood from Lang-

. ;:• <S ■. ~ fqrd's., mouth, and in the eighteenth round opened his eye, the body-blows did not disturb the pocket Hercules. Soft and paunchy as his waistline looked, 'the''"blows ; de- • livered upon it never caused him any inconvenience. They made a big sound, they looked very'terrible,, but Langford never winced, while all the time Jeannette's vitality was ebbing under his eoustant attack and fearful fusillade of half-arm blows. BLACX- OR -WHITE.Having establisned'a fairly comfortable lead by the end of the seventh round, Langford slackened off a little. Probably his lack of training was making itself felt, and he is too astute a to. pump, himself-out when it is not necessary. Having brisked-up by '':«, sp©U of clinching am\ futile hugging, be cut loose a g:i- in tfee thirteenth, round and sent down three* times. ' The ' time-keeper ecu*/:- 4 four, counted nine, aad counted nine again. Poor Jeanriette" was dazed and ' groggy, but full of courage." The

gong sounded just in time'.to save him from what must have been a knoek-ont. The interval bucket Him up wonder... fully, and he got Langford flush in the face in the next round, but the behind the blow was trifling. Again he tried ; to get Langford's. stomach, reaehed it, and apparently discovered that it was tough as a .rhinocerous' skin. In the twentieth round Langford had him hanging on the ropes gasping and helpless,, but, possibly for old acquaintance sake, did not send, him to * sleep. ■'■ ■■■'-■ The match left rip doubt that Langford is fully entitled to meet Johnson or Carpentier for the world's championship. So far Carpentier has not challenged any of this trio of black warriors. He may want to see them pitted against one another before ,he takes on the winner. I may be utterly wrong; but, at his present stage of development, I think if he waits for the winner, and meets him- in "a neutral ring, where there can be no. humbug, lie will get.a sound drubbing. — mtmmnmmmm — mdmmm^—m mi r _,