BOXING

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 153, 25 March 1925, Page 4

BOXING

(By

“Punch.”)

Nptwithstanding that he had made arrangements tn meet Bretonnel on January 27, and that thousands of tickets had been sold for the match, “Johnny” Dundee, the former feath-er-we,ijxht» cluiHipion of the world, litis sailed for New Aork (says a Pans cable, dated January 23). Dundee sent a wireless message en route that his hastv departure was due to his wife’s illness. The French Boxing Federation has decided that Dundee and his manager (Air. Johnson) shall be permanently barred from engaging in fields in France. The federation has amwalod to all countries affiliated with the Boxing Union to impose a similar penalty. Miekv Walker, the worlds’ welterweight'ehanipion, has been prohibited by the. New Vor,k Commissioh from engaging in contests in the State of New~York, P.in’ng to his refusal to ineet Dave Shade in New York on tlie conditions laid down by the Commission. , Tex Rickard, finht promoter, recently drew a list of bqxers and their chance of getting a match:

“Dempsey—too much money. “McTiguc—afraid. “Greh—-pour opponents. “Walker—running away from Shade. “Leonard—too much money, stage struck. “Goldstein—too careful. Poor card. “Villa—afraid of Genare.”

Ern Waddy, heavy-weight champion is an object lesson for any bud. din" boxer to follow (writes a correspondent in the Sydney “Referee”). At nearer lorty than thirty, Waddy was able to give a stone, fifteen years and a boating to “Blackie” Dliller over twenty gorv rounds. Waddy, a. production of the 0.8. T., learned in that institution to eschew drink and tobacco and to keep his body fit. The result is ajiparent to anyone The fact is AVaddy was a coming champion oarsman, but iorsook his amateni status in that sjwrt to enter tho professional ranks ot pugilistica. “When a man enters the ring he is in excellent physical condition. and youjjave got to weaken him gradually” states Jim Jeffries, world's ex-heavy-weight champion). “No matter how good he mav bo. if you only keep walloping awav at his stomach and body, he will, sooner or later, succumb. Hit a fellow on the jaw and he either goes out or dances away from you. and in

a few seconds, when his brain clears, he is as strong as ever, and is fighting as thouizh- nothing had happened. It is hard to land the right kind of blow on the jaw—that is a blow that will do the trick on the instant, then, again, most fighters are, too busy Protecting their to look after the body, and I have found it easy to land a telling blow on the stomach. “I don’t think I ever knocked * man out clean with a body punch, but I have defeated Sharkey, lluhlin, Fitzsimmons, and ’ Corbett through bodv blows. That body punching put Sharkev out of business. Ruhlnf ' was beaten down by body blows, and ritzsimmon was in such a helpiess condition from repeated body blows that he could not raise his hands. Alter the fight lie told jne that he would have preferred fifty blows on the jaw to one of those body blows. In my battle with Corbett it was the same wav. I simply played for the body, and 1 saw that a couple of wallops in the earlv rounds had taken the steam out of him. I continued to drive those body blows until he could stand them no longer, and he went to the floor for the count. There are many times when the spectators cannot see the damage done, but the referee knows who is being hurt. I can readilv understand why other boxers play for the body. It is the weakest part of many boxers.’'