THE STOUSH TEMPERAMENT.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 88, 22 November 1912, Page 6

THE STOUSH TEMPERAMENT.

i None of the French <~ontingent of boxers now in Australia has met, wifh sue- • ces-R so far, and a. carking suspicion, ! verging on complete certainty, arises in 'the' breast of the Sydney "Bulletin" I that the Frenchman has not got what j may bo termed the stoush temperai ment. Comparing the Johnson-Burns ! fight, with the recent Hock Keys-Leon j Bernstein scrap in the same ring, the J "Bulletin" says: "Burns, when the. police stopped the massacre and called ' Johnson off, was fully prepared fin fact, i eager) to go on indefinitely. Yet his I jaw had been smitten an inch or more. j out of plumb, one of his eyes was closed I and the other closing, bumps the size of ! ba.ntams 1 eggs decorated his brow, his I body was a mass of contusions, and one !of his ankles had gone. Bernstein was i not marked hy Keys; in fact, Keys ; hardly hits with sufficient force |to> j mark anyone of reasonable toughness in 'the matter of hide. A smart fusillade ;of punchlets in the neighborhood of the I midriff were the deadliest goods that 1 the Australian champion handed out to j his Gallic brother. Any local hoy would ihare stood them .for years. Not bo I Leon. They filled him with dismay and i hopelessness and utter desolating grief. Fn the eighth round ho retreated frem ! them at a brisk hand-gallnp. and elevating hoth gloves in token of surrender. . brokt' for his corner, and there bowed I his head and wept. Tt is the Second time that tho writer has seen Franco dissolved in tears during the past.-month, and I ho. spectacle grows wearisome. Bernstein is a clever and attractive I boxnr, and he seems to have a punch. But he, is not within coo-ec, or for that matter within cabling distance, of tho [class of Kms. And the rugged nerve, j which enables a fighter to take hard over a long term, and still I come up dourly for more, is wholly 1 absent from his make-up. He is a nice- | looking hoy, a speedy runner, and a. ! ready tear-shedder. but as a pug 'he is a. false alarm comparable to a, Marathon entrant who is incapable of racing more than half a mile.