1930-01-25 — Page 13

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1930.

Sport Columns

BOXING AND FIGHTING

THEORY v. PRACTICE WITH A DIFFERENCE

BASKING IN UNREALITY

A special correspondent of the Landon Observer wrote a few weela ago:--

Most of those who are interested in boxing, as opposed to the sensa tion-hunting crowds who attend can testa in search of thrills, have been disgusted by recent exhibitions. Contests such

as the two between Stribling and Carnera will bring about the suppression of boxing, for they are obviously fights, which are illegal, and ant contests of skill. which are permitted by law. that there is any need to shudder when sporting journalists hint at the fearful thingsCarnera might do if he get really angry. In an "all-in" fight the smaller and quicker man would almost invariably win. Witness the first fight between Carnera and Stribling, But it is

Not

GOLF

Starting Times for Sunday

THE

CHINA

9.24 a.m. G. B. S. Thomson, T. S.

Whyte-Smith,

9.28 9.32

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E. Lewis, S. 3, Perry.

W. S. Hillier, D. M. Goodall,

B. Fetheram, H. Hampton. H, A. Lammert, H. C. Shrubsole.

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The Royal Hong Kong Golf on is not the slightest proof that he could win without them.

This was

Club notifies the following start shown often enough in prize-ringing times for to-morrow:- days. One of the evils of the big heavyweight matches is the exalta- tion of bulk as against quality, The glove, with the advantage it gives to mere weight of hitting and the fact that it makes hooking and swinging safe for the hands, Is al in favour of the big man. A much Highter blow with the bare knuckles will do all the damage. necessary. Mace and Belcher were perhaps the best of the old-style pugilists, and the former weighed eleven and the latter not much over twelve stone. Tom Sayers was little over ten stone. There were big men like Gaunt and Perry (the Tipton Slasher), but the former was beaten by Bendigo, who weighed between cleven and twelve stone, and the latter by Sayers. Isaac Perrins, an eighteenth-century boxer, weighed seventeen stone, and was beaten by Johnson, a much smaller man.

Against the Rules

10.00

10.04 10.03

10.12

P. Morrison, C. C. Roberts.

P. Todd, 3. R. Hinton.

J. W. Alabaster, A. H. Penn.

A. Leach, F. H: Crapnell. c. W. Jeffries, W.

Fleming,

N.

0. Eager, J. H. Little,

A. Piercy, H. Spleer,

M. G. Mills, F. Syma

Thomson.

1. II. Geare, L. H. Buffin.

C. T. Fowle, P. F. le Fevre. Lawrence, J. S.

F D.

Drummond.

G. W. Garrett, M. D. Scott,

M. D. Mathews, R. V. Parker.

10.10

"

10.20

18.24 10.28

E. Kern, B. J. Lacon.

B. Taplin, F. Binck,

10,32 10.38

J. C. Kyle, D. Beath.

C. L. Sandes, T. G. Bonnett

10.40

1.

10.41

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10.48

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S. J. H. Fox, A. D. Coppin,

10.66

11.00

11.04

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11.20 11.24

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11.26

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11.32

Hallowes.

L . 8.

Davidson.

S. T. Butlin, E. M. Bryden.

It is practically impossible by 11.30 boxing alone to keep a man of equal 11.40 strength and quickness, however unskilled, fram closing.

And once

11.44

11.48 11,52

11.56

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A. C. Meredith. E. D.

Black.

C. B. Riggs, J, B. Lanyon.

W. Smalley, J. Jones.

R. Stock, R. H. D. Wade.

D. Mend, C. J. D. Law.

K. K. Rounds, W. D.

Harris.

G. E. Moore, B. A. C

Andrewes.

FOOTBALL

MAIL.

Interport Arrangements in Shanghai

The China New Year soccer inter- port at Shanghai will devolop into a triangular contest, as in addition to the Hong Kong team, Tientsin is also sanding a team to Shanghai,

The re-arranged programme is as fol- iowa:-

Feb. 1. Shanghai v. Hong Kong. Feb. 2.-Shanghai v. Tientsin, Feb. 3,Hong Kong v. Tientsin. Feb. 5,-Hong Kong

Army (Shanghai).

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Feb. 7.-Tientsin v. Army (Shang hai).

The Tientsin players Include the fol. lowing:-

Roxburgh; Waddell .and Kidd; Kazoolin, Park and Cooke; Fingereth, Rodger, Pearson, Coulcher and Johann son. Reserves-McPhee and Morten. Mr. W. E. Hollanda and Lt. W. R. George will accompany the Hong Kong team as joint managers.

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But even prize fighting with bare knuckles was a very artificial thing. 10,52 A man was not allowed to kick. He could neither hit nor take hold be- low the belt. Butting, biting, and gouging were definitely against the rules, also throttling on the ropes. And, perhaps most important of all, when a man was down, even on one knee and hand, the fight was over for the time being. Yet the Japa- a pity there should be this glorifica-nese have shown that a man when tion of fighting as opposed to "down," according to boxing rulea,

is often in a very strong position. boxing, quite apart from the ques tion of illegality. It is scarcely possible to pick up a paper without reading a criticism by some "sport- ing" journalist disparaging some he has closed, boxing is finished boxer for not being enough of a with. So-called in-fighting is mere fighter, or expressing disgust that ly a product of modern glove-fight- sume contest proved to be a mere ing rules, and if holding and wrest exhibition of boxing skill. I am ling were allowed in-fighting would not condemning fighting. There be useless, if not impossible. Wrest- is much to be said for it as well as ling, however, has its own in- against. But to demand fighting numerable codges of rules, requiring in a glove contest under strict rules or forbidding all sorts of holds, but is to show confusion of thought. usually declaring that a man is down Glove fighting has always been and the bout ended when he is on an artificial sport. Much ridicule his back. The Japanese systems has been poured on the alleged dis of self-defence (I believe ju-jitau qualification of Mr. B. J. Angle and ken-jitsu are the technical some fifty years ago, in an amateur terms), come nearer to reality. I boxing competition, for hitting too believe there is also

an Icelandic hard. Competitors in those days method of fighting akin to the The R.H.K.G. Club (Junior Sec- were sometimes told to box, not Japanese, and the Cumberland tion) will meet the Kowloon Golf Club

wrestlers have stories of jealously on Friday, the order of play being: The Club and the Army guarded secret "death holds."

bore that in mind.

Ju-Jitsu

was ap

T. G. Weall, J. P. Warren. G. Hegarty, L. G. S. Dodwell. 12.00 noon E. des Voeux, A. O. Brawn. 12.04 p.m. W. J. Clarke, F. M. Ellis, 12.08 12.12

A. E. Lissaman, D. S. Rabb. A. B. Purves, E. D. Matthews.

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12.20 12.24

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A. F. Judit, J. H. Ashworth.

J. R. Raikes, R. P. Moodie.

W. G. Lorimer, H. R. C. Booth.

D. J. Gilmore, A. Summer- felt.

HONG KONG v. KOWLOON

Kowloon

R.H.K.G.C.

V. A. O. Brawn

V F. E. E. Becker v. R. Campbell

IN

Marjorie Gladman, woman net star. who confirmed the report that she was engaged to John Van Hen, Davis Cup player. They first met while playing doubles in the mixed national championships.

HOCKEY

Draw

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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL HONG KONG

January 26, 1930,

3rd Sunday after Epiphany. Holy Communion, 8 a.m. Holy Communion (Peak Church), 8 a.m.

Children's Service, 10 a.m.

Sunday School at Peak School. 10 a.mn.

Matins and Sormen, 11 am, Preacher: The Dean.

Masonic Service, 6 pm.

Notice: The

First Annual

Church Meeting will be held in

the Cathedral Hall

on Tuesday,

January 28 at 5.30 p.m.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,

SCIENTIST.F

[Branch of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scien.

On the U.S.CC. ground yesterday tist, in Boston, Mass., U.S.A.] afternoon a fine game was seen be

Macdonnell Road, below Bowen

A. W. de Roza V. C. B. Robertsontween the Hong Kong Hockey Club

and the Army, a draw P. Morrison 4.

four goals cach being a good indication of the run of the play.

A. A. Lopes

V.

A. E. Charman

1

A. J. W. Dorling

v. C. Mycock

. W. M. Edmunds

(Capt.)

fight. But the principles upon which the referees and umpires of those days acted were logical. They were judging skill in boxing, und The ancient Greeks distinguished F. N. Remedios estimating that skill by the stan- clearly between boxing, wrestling. J. D. Thonison dards of bare knuckle fighting. A and

the pancratium. The last-J. Mackintosh. man could easily knock his hands to named contest was apparently very pieces in the old style, and judges like an old-style prize fight without. D. de Rozn

But glove restrictions. The nearest approach fighting, logically considered, is an to real natural fighting absurdity. To cover a man's fistsparently the American rough-and D. C. Wilson with pudded gloves to prevent him tumble fighting of the middle nine-S. Millior from doing damage with them, and teenth century. Gouging, biting. H. Hampton then to measure his success by the and kicking, with other dirty tricks, J. H. Hunt damage he does, is farcical. Al were all included in this style, tho most on a par with this is the pro- best known exponent of which was A. Breley hibition of wrestling while clinching probably John W. Morrissey, who. and holding is in practice, though once beat Heenan under prize-ring

G. R. Russell not in theory, permitted to an al- rules. Naturally, this disgusting J. N. Austin most unlimited extent.

method of fighting was not widely T. J. Price practised, as the comparatively A. Groves civilised use of weapons made it im- A. Eastman possible. It was, however, taught during the war as an adjunct to bayonet fighting. It is said that in the days of the prize-ring a dis- tinction was drawn between "fight- ing" and "rafianing." the latter being apparently a continuous rough-and-tumble. In Lancashire the "all-In" fight, including the use of clogs, was formerly practised.

Pray Silence!

Yet there can be little doubt that the belief that they are to see some thing which approximates to a real fight is what draws the majority of the spectators to boxing matches. If proof of this were needed, it is to be found abundantly in the, ad- vertisements of promoters and the paragraphs inspired by managers. The finer points of boxing skill are - hard enough to see, even when at The moral ef all this is that we the ring-aide, and to appreciate should get rid of fight talk in con- then requires knowledge. But any nection with boxing. It is a fine one can see a couple of heavyweights sport and good exercise, 'though ponderously knock each other down, limited in practice to a certain phy. even from the Albert Hall gallery. sical type, but it has little or no. There is a story, doubtfully true but relation to self-defence or to fight- well invented, of an M.C. who, during. The strength and quickness

ing a heavyweight contest, stood up of a good boxer would, of course, be and proclaimed: "Mr. Goddard is useful to him in any type of physical about to hit with his right.. The contest, but his boxing skill would audience will kindly observe com--be of little use. The Japanese ju- plete silence during the progress of jitsu experts had, I believe, little the blow."

difficulty in tying up Jim Jeffries,

With all this talk of fighting, it the biggest and heavlest man who is perhaps interesting to consider ever hold the World's Championship, what relation modern' glove fighting and Yukio Tani used to give music has to real fighting. The answer hall exhibitions in which he easily Is, practically none. The fact that dealt with Josephs, then our light a man can beat another with gloves weight champion.

V. A. Brooksbank

(Capt.)

v. A. Macfarlane

V. G. McLeod

Y. C. B. Matthews v. R. Clark v. E. Hanlen

V. J. K. Gelling.

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Subject: "Truth.”

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The Sunday School is held on Sunday mornings at 10 o'clock.

Wednesday Evening Meeting at 5.80 o'clock.

Reading Room at above address. open:--

The following will represent the Combined League against the United Services to-morrow, on the Kowloon Cricket Club ground, commencing at 11 o'clock sharp:- 12 Noon.

Tuesday and Friday 10 am to

Monday and Thursday 5.30 to 7

W. Brace (Captain), D. J. N. Anderson, E. C. Fincher, E. F.p.m. Fincher, F. Goodwin, W. C. Hong,

The Public is cordially invited

S. A. Ismail, A. J. Lee, E. A. Lee, to attend the service and visit the A. A. Rumjahn, and G. R. Sayer.

With perfect weather and a fast dry course, America's foremost golfers. started the second day of their annual championship tournament at the Hillcrest Country Club, Los Angeles. Here is pictured Walter Hagen getting out of a sand trap.

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