BOXING BITS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 16

BOXING BITS.

Quconsburv, the lordly professor o? "bOS,» Pronounces that "clinching" is unorthodox ; For instead of straight-out punching and plugging, We're ottered an exhibition of hugging; So 'Careful is each not to hurt the other, He fondly embraces him like a brother. '• * * Boxing as at present generally conducted in London, says the "Standard," is no more brutal than fencing, and is equally well calculated to develope some of the most useful qualities of the mind and body —courage, decision, rapidity of movement, quickness of hand and eye, and sound physical condition. No man can succeed in either who gives himself up to dissipation and self-indulgence. His body must be a well-trained, effective instrument that can be relied upon to answer the- call of the will. In, these luxurious days we should not unnecessarily condemn a pastime that tends to these results. • • • E. B. Osborne writes in the "Nineteenth Century": "I'e.ter Jackson was the dominant figure at the beginning of this era of negro supremacy which has not yet passed by. No swifter or more graceful or even effective heavyweight ever entered the four-square arena in our day. I. have never seen his equal among the 'big fellows' as a judge of distance, and his panther-like glide into position or just out of danger was the poetry of motion. Gans, a light-weight who never minded giving away a stone or two in a contest for stakes, was not inferior to Jackson in point of effortless artistry.