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McAuMe Laughs Over
Airs That Are Put On
By the Modern Pugs
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—“Some of
these critics who keep pointing back
to the tough times of the old bare
knuckle days give me a laugh. When
they say it took more gameness to
fight a man with bare fists than a man
with gloves, they do not know what
they are talking about,” Jack McAu
liffe, the retired unbeaten lightweight
champion said recently in a fanning
bee about old times.
“A good hitter can inflict more
damage with a light glove than he
can .with his bare fist because he can
hit harder and he can get better
punches on the face or body with a
glove than he could with the bare
hand.
“The big advantage that a fighter
has in a glove is that he has some
thing to get a grip on. In the old
days when I was fighting with bare
fists I used to try to sneak a match
stick or a handful of grass in my
hand. They would give me some
thing to grip. Otherwise the muscles
of the hand would get so tired it was
almost impossible to grip the hand
tightly or to even close it.
“You will notice that many runners
have regular cork grips to put in their
hands when they are running. The
idea is following the same theory of
the old fight days.”
McAuliffe pointed out that with the
gloves it is sometimes possible to
sneak something into thehand to add
to the force of the blow or to get
something inside the bandage or the
lining of the glove.
“In our days,” he said, “it was im
possible to get a plaster of paris case
on the hands or hold an iron slug in
the hands like some of the modern
boxers do now. The beatings that
some of the modern boxers have to
take now could not have been inflict
ed in the bare knuckle days.”
It has always been nteintained by
some critics who do not feel friendly
toward the champion that Dempsey
had his hands packed •when he fought
Jess Willard at Toledo with which
Jimmy de Forest clung to the state
ment that Dempsey had nothing but
ordinary tape on his hands added
strength to the other denials.
De Forest trained Dempsey for the
Willard fight and was his chief sec
ond during the battle. De Forest has
no reason to stretch a point of truth
for the champion, as he was let out
right after the fight and there is no
reason why he should feel tied by any
bonds of loyalty to cover it up if
Dempsey’s hands were slugged with
plaster of paris.
It seems unusual, however, that
Dempsey should have caved in the
face of the giant, Willard when he
had never inflicted such damage, on
j other opponents before that time and
has never shown such crashing power
since then. .
Carpentier left the ring without a
mark, but it might be argued that
Dempsey didn’t have to smash the
smalled Frenchman. Gibbons left
the ring in Shelby with nothing more
than a bruise on his groin from a
punch and Dempsey had not reason
to pull his punches in that fight.
Firpo wasn’t badly marked when he
was dragged from the ring in the
Polo Grounds and Dempsey had every
reason to get savage enough to
murder the South American in that
fight.
It is quite possible, however, that
Dempsey never was in the same
mood and on the same great edge
as he -was in the Willard fight and
that he never will be the same per
fect machine again. . He never will
be if there is any truth in the theory
that an athlete reachs his best at only
one time in his career. Because Wil
lard was such a huge man, Dempsey
may have been forced to hit harder
and more accurately than he had ever
done before or since and it might be
that Willard was softer about the
face and head than any of the ohter
opponents Dempsey met. Willard
certainly was soft inside and he may
i have had a soft shell.
!
One of the Eastern contenders for
the lightweight championship has a
reputation of carrying an iron slug in
his hands. The story is told in the
Middle west that this fighter, when
he w'as in his corner in a city near
Chicago, ,felt a gun in his back and
was told to drop the slugs.. There
was said to have bee ntwo splashes
in the water bucket that weren’t caus
ed by the sponge.
McAuliffe is not one of the lold
school who insists that there are no
good fighters among the present
crop, but he does claim that some
of the champions today are not as
good as the old fellows of yesterday.
“Our days were tough,” he said,
“not because we fought with bare
knuckles, but because we fought for
such a long time and fought for such
darn small purses. General conditions
were not as good then as they are
now.
‘‘Boxers in our time had no social
rating and they couldn’t exercise the
rights of ordinary citizens in some
places. They used to post rewards
in some towns for the arrest of any
fighter and hotels were barred to any
man who was known connected to
have been connected with a prize
fighter.
“Now the prominent boxers are per
mitted! in the best social circles. They
live in fine houses and are welcomed
to the best hotels. They fight in fine
clubs and they ride back and forth in
high-priced cars. . They never have
to duck the police like we did. They
have cops at the ringside to protect
them. . Great days, these are!”
McAuliffe is now going an act with
a musical show, “Hurry Up.” He
does a monologue and a boxing act
with Irish Patsy Kline in which the
old and the new ways of boxing are
demonstrated. .
IDO LABELED AS
PERFECT LINGO
CLEVELAND .Dec. 30.—A new uni
versal language, Ido, which he terms
“the most perfect language in exist
ence,” is being advocated by the Rev.
F. L. Odenbach, seismograph observ
er of John Carroll university here..
Speaking recently of Ido, Father
Odenbach said: “The telephone and
radio have brought the people of this
earth within speaking distance, but
the scenes enacted are suggestive of
what must have happened at the Tow
er of Babel. . The remedy, however,
is in Ido, a language which may be
learned at home in a few months. The
salient features of this new and per
fect vehicle of thought follow: The
alphabet is the English one, with a
single sound for each letter; the spell
ing is absolutely phonetic; every word
has but one invariable meaning.
“The accent is governed by a sin
gle rule: The infinitive form has the
accent on the last syllable; all other
words of more than one syllable on
the last but one.
Tweenty Endings
There are but twenty grammatical
endings to be learned by heart. All
nouns end in o, all adjectives in a, and
adverbs in e, the rest are used for
the conjugation of the vei’b.
A dictionary of 10,000 roots with
about 75 suffixes, forms the material
of this auxiliary language. The Ido
dictionary thus puts at our disposal
some 30,000 words, twice as many as
existed in Shakespeare’s time.
Since the roots were all chosen
from the living cultured languages,
Americans and the English will re
cognize 79 per cent of the words at
first sight; the Germmans 61 per
cent, the French 91 per cent, and
Spaniards 79 per cent. There are no
exceptions in its grammar.
The steamship Alaska arriving in
port Friday evening, will have on
board 600 tonsj of freight for the com
and interior merchandise. It is one
mission, and a large quantity of local
of the largest freight manifests of the
season and marks the opening of de
velopment work for the new year.
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Massfield Builds Own
Theater To Assist
Amateur Performers
LONDON, Dec, 30.—John Masefield,
world famous English author, poet
and playwright, is adding the role
of play-producer to his many accom
plishments.
With the object of giving a group
of amateur performers a real the
ater in which to produce their plays,
he has built a small theater in the
grounds of his beautiful residence
at Boors Hill, near Oxford, and he
has high hopes that it will become
the great home of poetic drama.
Masefield says that he hopes to
present twelve plays within the next
year and that he, personally, will
produce them all.
The theater is the realization of
many years’ ambition of Masefield
and his band of players, who have
for many years performed in way
side barns and outhouses.
Severely plain in its architecture
it has comfortable seating room for
100 spectators, and there are up-to
date dressing rooms and a very fine
stage. The volunteer musicians will
be accommodated in a gallery.
No scenery will be used, for Mase
field contends that the poetic drama
needs no scenic interpretation or
aids.
The theater will be opened with an
unpublished play, “The Young King,”
by Laurence Binyon, and in the in
tervals of play production oldfolk
dancing and poetry readings will be
given.
The spectators will be privileged,
and in order to cover expenses will
be called upon to pay a nominal ad
mission fee.
BERLENBACH WINS
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Paul Berlen
bach knocked out Harry Each in what
was to have been a ten round go here
last night.
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