BOXING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 369, 21 April 1910, Page 3

BOXING.

THE FEATIIEU-W EIGHT Gil A.Mi'ION. Uy Gable —Press Association—Copyright. London, April 1:). Driseall retains the feather-weight ■championship by defeating Spike liobson in fifteen rounds. Robson was carried from the ring unconscious. JEFFRIES AXD JOHNSON.

UNE-PUNCII MEN. '■Jim Jeffries' dangerous guns are on the larboard sule/' writes an American authority. "'His record proves that the left side batteries are the dangerous ones. The big fellow could do no more than break a circus hoop with the right but never in his career has he dropped his man for the couut from the starboard side. Take the Fitzsimmonj fio-hts—both wero defeats from fiwt old - •left-mauler. Jim Cortiot* ,wa s floored and finished with a left to the stomach.! Gus Ruhlin found out that lie had a sufficiency when that left bor.ed a hole in his midsection, and Joe Kennedy went down and out from a left to the mouth. Jeff, is naturally left-handed. He writes left-handed, shoots left-handed and fights left-handed. Of course, he stands with his left hand and foot to the fore, but ■his left is his dangerous hook. Jeff, is so strong that he doesn't have to swing the left. The force is there just the same. He is exactly the opposite of Johnson in this. The latter is a righthanded fighter. He stands with the left out, tantalises and jabs with it, but the money hook is the right. This great ■battle between the big fellows figures | between a right-handed and a left-hand-ed fighter—Jeffries with that tremendous left, and Johnson with that jaw-

: reaching right. Dal Hawkins had a left scared most of the lightweights to deatu- He had no right. When he landed' wit'lT tlle ie had to do was to the g^ oves all< i collect. It is the sa^? le Jeff l '' os - Let him land that left' , on , the face o r on the chest, and ii's ctir?^. ms ' \ , llls ie Strength in it now that -u e SIX - vears ago, and he lands on Jolmk. Ol \^y e arC liable to Mar gad news from 0^ vest ° u - If the punch is gone and Johnson lift*. , that right up, those colored brothers Ol the south will be wearing diamond rings and plug hats. The greatest fighters in the world right now, Jeffries and Johnson. are nothing but one-punch men. Neither one is good with both hands/'