. Athletics and manly sport . f course isa study of the man when at his best.) Sullivans second achievement is, undoubtedly,the crystallization of the round blow. This isone of the 2:reatest additions ever made to thepugilism of the ring. The round blow, safelydelivered, is the most powerful and effective ofall blows. \ Sullivan did not invent the round blow. Itis as old as boxing ; indeed it is one of the naturalmovements of human attack. It was the leadingblow of the Greeks with the brutal cestus, or armedglove. It is the very blow that a strons^, awk- THE USUAL, AND WRONG, WAY TO STRIKE A R
. Athletics and manly sport . f course isa study of the man when at his best.) Sullivans second achievement is, undoubtedly,the crystallization of the round blow. This isone of the 2:reatest additions ever made to thepugilism of the ring. The round blow, safelydelivered, is the most powerful and effective ofall blows. \ Sullivan did not invent the round blow. Itis as old as boxing ; indeed it is one of the naturalmovements of human attack. It was the leadingblow of the Greeks with the brutal cestus, or armedglove. It is the very blow that a strons^, awk- THE USUAL, AND WRONG, WAY TO STRIKE A ROUND BLOW. of hii IMPROVEMENT IN MODERN BOXING. 9 ward, ignorant man woulcl strike, and therebydisable himself—for the round blow, wronglydelivered, is far more terrible to the o-iver than tothe receiver. Formerly, boxers delivered the round blowalmost with a straight-arm swing, some with thefront knuckles leading, and some with the back,and some again with the thumb knuckle, or withthe palm or heel of the fist. But most of. llOl^D BLOW. (Instantaneous Photograph.) these came oft* with sprained joints or brokenwrists, while their opponents easily escaped theslow swing by ducking, or threw up the elboWat an acute angle and smashed the delicate boneof the strikers forearm. The secret of striking the round blow safelylies in the position of the knuckles. Just as in 10 ETHICS OF BOXING A^TD MANLY SrORT. true cutting: with a sword, the elbow and knucklesare the test. Ask an unskilled man to make the•cut one with a sabre (from right to left, hori-zontally), and he will, assuredly, cut ii^itli theback of the sivord for two-thirds of the because he keeps his elbow and hisknuckles turned up instead of down. And sowith all sword-cuts. So, too, with the roundblow in boxing. An unskilled boxer v>^ill swing
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