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It is time that our young boxers developed an appreciation of the power of a punch, says! "Corinthian in the Brily [Chronicle. For many years it has been a gospel in British bax- ing circles that it is cleverness which wins. In a measure that is true: but there remains the fact that one punch that is hard enough and delivery in the right place, will, by its effective- ness, more than counterbalance! all the scientific scoring of paints which might have been accom- plished by the receiver of that big bit in many preceding rounds,

Our

In most of the big contests we! have had of late it has been driven home to the students of British boxing that the cultivation of skill has resulted in the over- looking of the necessity of farce. Writing from memory and of the big contests which have taken place recently one can refer top the opening night of the Holland Park Hall. and quote cases in support of the foregoing.

Dn that

Charles) evening Ledoux. of France. met bantam-right champion, Jim Higgins. The latter is a clever lile boxer, and he can bit very hard. But be thought more in this contes: about being clever than hedid about hitting bard. Ledons did not, and Ledoux won by a Knock-out. On the same even- ing Arthur Wyns, the Belgian, met our feather-weight champion. Mike Honeyman. Wens bother- ed nothing at all about sciance. but he gave Honeyman such a das of the week has enjoyed an terrible hiding that it would have increase of pay recently, and been a kindness on the part of the ours being a quiet station with referee had the latter stopped the few callers among the trains on contest before he did. this line he has really little to do.

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A CASE FOR SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY.

Elgar Rowan writes in the Daily (*hanjeles

1 quite appreciate the fact that the Government is very busy, and 1 certainly do not wish to add to the already heavy burdens on Mr. Lloyd George's shoulders. Sa an willing that it should he left private enterprise. But we realis mes have a scientiñe inquiry into Unlucky Days.

very

CASES IN POINT. Joe Bickett beat Billy Wells Is it, then, too much to ask that twice be big hits rather than he should exercise reasonable pretty boxing, and the British) care in such a simple manter as champion defeated Tommy Burns telling me the right day of the when he concentrated upon hit- week? i went to a Harley-ting hard after he had gone along street specialist, and said. "A on the low gear for a few rounds. To revent to Wyns. The peang pill for a headache, please,”

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and he gave me an elephant's Belgian may not be nearly so dose of arsenir by mistake. the pretty a boxer as Mike Honey- coroner would, pa daubt, take the man, Francis Rossi and Jos matter up. Surely, then, the Conn, bat he has reduced them all so dead hopelessness by the power of his For that reason I hope thai porier should not this article will not be regarded to all sense of responsibility, so panching and his mental deter- merely as a piece of English lacking in all the finer emotions,mination to win by that power.

Remembering that one big Prose for Use in Schools, brand more generous impulses-

want to put it too punch. skilfully delivered, will will be cut out and laid before I do not the Commission when appointed. strongls, or he may slam the wipe out all the advantage of About a week ago I was half gate in my face to-morro, or points scored with nice playful way through what I am alloxed hut my finger in the carriage skill is the strong point of the 19 Friday contest-winners of to-day, and good-natured colleagues to door-as in tell me it

work. when is really Thursday, while everyone would be sorry to Unless that sort of thing is stop-see the good science of boxing wiped out to the encouragement of ed I shall never feel safe.

of wallop-mongering. the fae: re- mains that our British boxers of the present day are not paying wfficient attention to the develo ment of their punching muscles and the training of their minds to lime and place their bits.

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I have dealt only brietly with the newspaper-reading public

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I must turn to the viber aspect Throught to my notice that it was.

Thursday. This was very awk-of the question how to deal ward for I had been under the with an Unlocky Day when it impression that it was Friday, has evaded all precautions, and and I had been throwing into my entered into our very life.

Take the case of Carpentier in I can see nothing for it ba work that spirit of light-hearted

A man soon his display against Beckett. The joy which a journalist feels on the ric: isolation. last working evening of his week. knows whether he is suffering latter admitted that he was but You may have noticed the from an Unlucky Day. Every feeling" for bis man when he out. There you sunny rapture of the journalist's thing goes wrong. In the middle was knocked style as set forth in the Satur-of an earnest cientiäe article have an admitted instance of day morning paper. He has like this he will awittingly lack of mental alertness which written the leader, the insers a joke or flippancy, and Carpentier took fall advantage of headings

or have to appear the next morning by bangiuz in his right hand on paze оп

of the before the British Association the spot where punches tell most. the purple passages murder story, with the conscious, with a rope round his neck and a The French champion, in spite

ways, ness that when the columns have written apology in each band.cf his rather effeminate dressing heen filled he can dash away for Or he may be in the hot room at gown and his pretty the week-end, and play golf, or the Turkish bath when the best acknowledging the plaudits of collect tram tickets whichever log fight of the rear is taking the spectators, did not overlook the fact that he was there to be place just down the street. is hobby may be.

When a man experiences these. vigoruas, not merely to look nice.

one.

That was bad luck indeed, and my purpose nor is to trace it back to its origin.

It was really the fault of the railway porter.

or any other of the, symptoms that are sadly familiar to all of us, he should give in at once.

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But on this occasion it was, as I suddenly discovered. no: Friday night at all, bot Thursday nighi. and my sense of the fitness of things taught me that my light-is no good continuing with an its heartedness was entirel out of Unlucky Day. 11 will run place. So I had to tear it all up coarse, however hard you may- try, and if you fight against it and begin again.

you will only bump into worse.

not noticling Through Lord Reading, chair- trouble, such as when a man leaves a better man ofthe English-speaking Union|

theo Jours in the Lord Rothermere has announced umbrella railway carriage.

his desire to endow Chair of So I suggest that the Unlucky | American History at Oxford Each afternoon. when I walk down to a certain little country Day be a notifiable disease, the University for the sum of £20,000. The endowment is in memory of station near London, I ask the victim having the right to leave

Lord Rothermere's son. Captain Dorter what day of the week it is, all work and go home at once.

Vysyan Harmsworth, Up to the present I had found him want to enlist the kindly co-oper-Harold extraordinarily accurate. Indeed, ation of all employers in this im- M.C., Irish Guards, who fell in matter. For instance, the war, and who was an under- I do no: think that he bas ever portant failed me before. But on this it

fice afternoon, and graduate at Christ Church (Ox- occasion he said "Friday. sir.Surrey are batting at the Oral, ford), and has as object the per- when, as was afterwards proved or there is a little affair be-petuation of the spirit of comrade- to me beyond all docbt, it was tween race-horses at Epsom or ship which existed between the Sandown Park, or some other British and American peoples really Thursday.

Now there are at least two place within easy reach. How during the war, and the making points with which & Royal Com-much better, then, if a man should of the history of the American mission on Unlocky Days should go boldly to his employer and people better known in Britain.

exy frankly, as man to man, One of the conditions is that The first is how Unlucky Daya"I'm sorry, sir, but this is one of the holder of the professorship may be prevented, and the second my Unlacky Days. May I leave must at the time of his election be

work at once?".

a citizen of the United States. how they may be cured.

Reading history, one sees how Io accepting the gift on behalf "Prevention, being better than care except in the case of such often it would have been better of the University Lord Curzon, natural phenomena as thirst, or for the world if kings and states-the Chancellor, says, that the the craving for a holiday the men had said "This is my name of the brave young soldier Commission will notice that in Untucky Day. I'll chuck work whom his father thus prepowee to my case it all depends on a rail- and go out and play marbles." commemorate will, by its associa way porter. Now the porter to For half the trouble and pain of tion with the professionship, act whom I look for up-to-date and the world is" caused by Unlucky as a stimulus to future genera-

itions of Oxford students,. trustworthy information about the Days:

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