THE PUNCHED CRITIC.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1515, 10 August 1912, Page 12

THE PUNCHED CRITIC.

WILL NOT BE'"COUNTED OUT." fmm St Mi CC M-" : \ l w rc l! ry " re P rin ted a Utter In? , V - \\-. Sampson to tho "Canis iis ot his rtitcrecmg, which appeared in hnxi, J " al ; • lh ? paper's Zi in Wellijisto " wsiwmls this f L " "'f umle , r last Saturday's date, th«7r IPT llerel »y' will do mo o » .nh M h .° W Jlr - Sampsm's lettei. Mercury" is glad to do so. as far n» mace will permit, but a Httfe "cutl B (. TV"*i n louud necessary on acShW U, \ le f n Sth of tho couuter-blnk , I ch except for thie .light pruning.

Dn»rf3?n^ er f ury " J ° this morning's 1 ' 1 " c nch, but am going to attempt a good Well, I put this over for a starter. Did not Mr. Sampson on several occasions start to count a, man who dipped to the mat without bein ? struck? fi that hot an indication of-to toy the least of itnervousness? Does that light tapg et Then again, it ie'egwed tliat ; a mon » hL- ' ' ft j , 8, ?l out ' Hl ° *°rd out being called on the tenth escond. Wow, even if fair seconds are ccunteil. .°, ne .being called immediately a man falls, by the timo "out" is called he haa only been down for nine. Did not Mr. kampsbn start all- his counts too soon? With regard to the rapidity of the count, it was the gonerally-oxproised opinion round where 1 eat, that it was far too quick. Aβ it happened in cne case —the Thompson-Leary fiasco—a friend who sat next me had in hie hand when tho gong, went for the second round a very fine split-second watch, and he started it as Leary fell. , He stopped on Mr. Sampson calling "out." and the time waa 7 Msec. "Mercury" said last week that he had timed several people couuting ten secoiids, and they all wero nearly exact, Quito so. Put them in the ring watching an exciting fight, or seeing an Inexpectu'd haymaker handed out, and see' how they got on. It is given. to fow of us under sitch circumstances to bo cool and collected enough to do what wo might easily, do in cold blood. Now, as to disqualifications for unfair taotics. Sir. Sampson fiaye that the fact uf my having stated that "ho had disqualified Eovcr.il competitors is ividence' that ho was fully alive to his Responsibilities," and he asks for specific lustancee whore he did fail to do his duty. Well, here's at you. When Monaghan was up against that Gisborne windmill, Cate, he naturally got alongside to evade getting some of the overflow. Cate, to shove him off, used his knee on more than tno occasion, surely about the foulest thing a.;, boxer can do. Certainly h« was ttorned, ' but he deserved more than a rebuke. In tho Boreham-Cate "go," did not Mr. Sampson have to warn both men repeatedly for hanging on? Pcrhape Mr. Sαtop> son knew of the sfcate of Boreham'e faet, and stretched a'point, but though I wfte very sorry for Borehain's bad luck the > rules of tho game demanded an csrlier disqualification. Then what abjut M'Minn'e tactics in his O'l'arrell fight? Mr. Sampson warns O'Farrcll for what he thinks ie a li.w hit, and M'Minn takes a tumble, and drops without any further blow. I didn't hear any remarks" coming from Mr. Sampson other than "Box on. A n'nn hit low doesn't- wait some time before getting wise to it, and (so it appeared to me, and others) M'Minn showod Mr., Sampson: a point. ". ~ ', :,' , s jtnfth Caldwellpi M'anganui'e heavy-weight, the''fight to tr win long before Mr. Sampson sent Dwyer' to his'cornerP I cortain|y think so. D\s7er was guilty of persistent hf.ngijig on, and' should Wo been called off in the second round. What about tho BaTr-Thompson 6ciomble? Both men offended in half-a-dozen ways, Thompson being warned iibout fcur times licfore being disqualified. Neither space nor memory permit of any further reference to those matters, and I close by saying that my answer to Mr. Sampson's query, ; "If Leary and Owens did' not win them (the medals), who did?" is: "I enn't say what nppenwl, as my remarks with regard to these lads,, but certainly I aid not intend to reflect on the 'apportionment"pf the. medols." I trust I have not failed to mako cloar that my report was based on a , desire to put forth only fair and justified criticism.