OPEN GLOVE

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1930, Page 8

OPEN GLOVE

NOISE AND PUNCHES: At the National Sporting Club, Holborn Stadium: (writes Bombardier Wells), I saw and heard one more example of the ignorance of the.average spectator regarding i4i*Jiat constitutes points. A Frenchman named Gourdy was fighting a Birmingham man, Bert Taylor, and because > the verdict was given by Eugene Corri'to Gourdy, the members and friends <.booed it. ' ; - Now, I watched.the fightingiae closely as 1 do any I go to see, and there was hardly a single blow landed by Taylor that was not with the open glove. Timfe: and again I heard openglove blows landing and then an “Ah!” from'a section of the spectators, as much as to say, “by jove that was a hef^V-. wallop,”; rvvhmV\i,i* was nothing of the kind. ! * 1 *’ The blow that knocks out a man or does him reaE'damage- is’ the'Tnnd that no one hears. The punch you do hear all over the hall neither hurts (unless of course, a wrist comes into play) nor is it legal nor point'‘Scoring. Yet that error is constantly being made. Next time you are at a fight, judge for yourself, and if your neighbour ejaculates when lie hears a loud smack, you may take it from me he knows very little indeed about the noble, art. s : j ,, , v . ,