PUNCHES THAT TELL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 973, 16 May 1930, Page 7

PUNCHES THAT TELL

THE KIND THAT NO ONE HEARS FALLACY OF OPEN GLOVE 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 what constitutes points. A Frenchman named Gourdy AA’as fighting a Birmingham man, Bert Taylor, and because the verdict was gi\ - en by Eugene Corri to Gourdy, the members and friends booed it. Now, I watched the fighting as closely as I do any I go to see, and there was hardly a single blow landed, by Taj'lor that was not with the open glove. Time and again I hear openglow blows landing, and then an “Ah I,” from a section of the spectators, as much as to say, “By jove, that was a hefty wallop,” when it was nothing of the kind. The blow that knocks out a man .or does him real damage is the kind 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 he hears a loud smack, you may take it from me he knows very little indeed about the noble art.