Knuckles and Gloves. Bohun Lynch
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Bohun Lynch
Knuckles and Gloves
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066231453
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I JOHN BROUGHTON AND JACK SLACK
CHAPTER II TOM JOHNSON AND ISAAC PERRINS
CHAPTER III RICHARD HUMPHRIES, DANIEL MENDOZA, AND JOHN JACKSON
CHAPTER V JEM BELCHER AND TOM CRIBB
CHAPTER VII JEM BELCHER’S LAST FIGHT
CHAPTER VIII TOM CRIBB AND MOLINEUX
CHAPTER IX JACK SCROGGINS AND NED TURNER
CHAPTER X JACK RANDALL AND NED TURNER
CHAPTER XI BILL NEATE AND TOM HICKMAN
CHAPTER XII TOM SPRING AND BILL NEATE
CHAPTER XIII TOM SPRING AND JACK LANGAN
CHAPTER XIV DEAF BURKE AND SIMON BYRNE
CHAPTER XV BENDIGO AND DEAF BURKE
CHAPTER XVI YANKEE SULLIVAN AND HAMMER LANE
CHAPTER XVII BENDIGO AND BEN CAUNT
CHAPTER XVIII NAT LANGHAM AND TOM SAYERS
CHAPTER XIX TOM SAYERS AND THE TIPTON SLASHER
CHAPTER XX The Last Great Prize-Fight TOM SAYERS AND THE BENICIA BOY
The Fight of Sayerius and Heenanus A LAY OF ANCIENT LONDON
CHAPTER I PETER JACKSON AND FRANK SLAVIN
CHAPTER II JAMES J. CORBETT AND JOHN L. SULLIVAN
CHAPTER III ROBERT FITZSIMMONS AND JAMES J. CORBETT
CHAPTER IV JAMES J. JEFFERIES AND ROBERT FITZSIMMONS
CHAPTER V TOMMY BURNS AND JACK JOHNSON
CHAPTER VI TOMMY BURNS AND JOE BECKETT
CHAPTER VII JACK JOHNSON AND JAMES J. JEFFERIES
CHAPTER VIII GEORGES CARPENTIER AND BOMBARDIER WELLS
CHAPTER IX JOE BECKETT AND BOMBARDIER WELLS
CHAPTER X GEORGES CARPENTIER AND JEFF SMITH
CHAPTER XI JACK DEMPSEY AND GEORGES CARPENTIER
CHAPTER XII GEORGES CARPENTIER AND GEORGE COOK
APPENDIX Rules of the Ring AS REVISED BY THE Pugilistic Benevolent Association
INTRODUCTION
Sports and games may be classified as natural and artificial. Running, jumping, and swimming, for example, are natural sports, though, to be sure, much artifice is required to assure in them especial excellence. In these simple instances it is merely directed to avoid waste of energy. Boxing is one of the artificial sports, and has never been, like wrestling, anything else. In the far distant past the primitive man, with no weapon handy, no doubt clutched and hugged and clawed at his immediate enemies, just as children, who are invariably primitive until they are taught “better,” clutch and claw to-day. That natural and instinctive grasping and hugging was the forefather of subtle and tricky wrestling, whether Greek, Roman, or North-country English, but as far as we can discover the earliest use of fisticuffs was for sport alone. It may seem natural to hit a man you hate, but it is only second nature, and any one but a trained boxer is apt to seize him by the throat. The employment of fists as weapons of offence and of arms for shields developed from the sport. As such, too, it is very effectual, especially when combined with a knowledge of wrestling,