THE RING KISS.
SUPERSTITIOUS BOXERS
Jack Hood, the Birmingham boxer, who injured his right hand in the eleventh round of his contest with the Belgian Verrett, and had to fight his way to victory through the next thirteen rounds with but his left hand in use,-is, like most boxers, a triflle superstitious, states the London “Daily News.” He is usually kissed before a contest by a little daughter of his manager. On this occasion his mascot was not jrresent, and Hood is inclined to think that his consequent troubles arose out of the omission. Many well-known boxers have their superstitions. Carpentier would never enter the ring until his manager, Descamps, was in his corner wearing a certain dilapidated old jersey, in which the boxer placed his faith. Johnny Summers, an old English champion and a Roman Catholic, wore a scapula inside his stocking, and used to touch it for luck between every round of the fight. Marry Mason, so well known at the Albert Hall, is of Jewish faith, and he invariably takes a praying shawl into the ring before he fights. Some boxers place' much reliance on having a black cat about the training quarters. Jack Dempsey admits that his best mascot is his light hand, and so far it has never failed him. One of Jimmy Wilde’s opponents, the Zulu Kid, who came to England to fight the wonderful little Welshman, used to carry a Zulu golliwog into the battle. Then there is the Englishman who went to America to fight. Ho took with him one of his baby’s little shoes. This he. used to place under his chair, but on the night of an important contest one of the opposition party, aware of the boxer’s fancy, removed the baby s shoe from its customary place. Its owner was winning in the earlier rounds, but when he became aware that the mascot was not there he grew uneasy and dispirited, and a few rounds later was knocked out by his adversary.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3032, 6 May 1926, Page 4
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333THE RING KISS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3032, 6 May 1926, Page 4
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