RIGHT THAT WAS LEFT

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 10

RIGHT THAT WAS LEFT

McDonald Got Little Mixed Against Casey

It is one thing to give a punch, but quite another to stop one. Yea, verily, this is so. '

•THE clever guy that sweated out the 1 pun, a sock m the boot is worth two m the eye, was no small town philosopher. Everyone — be he boxer op bosun •—subscribes to the sentiments expressed. The day we live In is all but stepping on the tail of to-morrow. Why only earn, two pounds per week when some correspondence school can teach you sufficient to make your services worth ten times that sum? Everybody is catered for and those with a leaning to the old and ancient calling of 'put 'em up," can, with lessons by post, and books fully illustrated, learn boxing — that is, m theory. Finish the series of lessons, and, should a big bully step into your path — insult you, your mother or , your sweetheart — you can deal with him. They don't say perhaps, either! All that good work you have carried out m front of the mirror will stand by you. And again, perhaps. For giving a punch and stopping one are two different items of interest. It is just a matter of whioh Is published first, or, m other words, who takes time by the forelock. Which brings "N.Z. Truth" to the Casey — McDonald affair at Palmerston North, last week. Both these gentlemen are . life -long subscribers to the view that right is might. .

i But unfortunately Laohie got a little bit tangled and imagined that right is , might. He thought he was at Monte Carlo, banked on his right and ■was left; ' . ■' ; In fact he got left more than once, and as the evening progressed he became something m the nature of a ■ connoisseur m lefts. Now Casey has lived long enough m i this country to be conversant with the rule, "Keep to the Left" He, by , the way, is the only individual "Truth" has encountered who is a wake-up to i the rule. ; Casey, early.i found himself getting left, but he got his left — at least he. found his left— and when he did he , started to make McDonald feel he was , being properly left. ; That left left Casey, went rjght to MoDonald, and turned right round and came right back again. I It was rather a left-handed compli- • ment to be punched, up and under, ad. lib., but nobody had" more right to that , left than McDonald. He had a right to stop that left but he did not exercise that right. - And by not using his right McDonald was wrong, and Casey, by using his left was right. The referee's left picked up Casey's s right at the finish, thus proving that ; Casey's left was right. Carrying the deduction further, Me--1 Donald's right was left and thus it was i wrong. His left was also left— left m cold storage last week.