On Saturday Paris was the scene of a curious sporting event: un attempt to decide the relative merits of the French and English styles of boxing. As everyone knows, the French system consists chiefly jof attacking with the fect and using the hands chiefly for defence, it being contended that ability to use the feet must give an vantage over an opponent who fights ith the hands alone, To the argument that it is unsportsmanlike to kick, the Prench reply that boxing ie the nolo art of self-defence and that a man who finds himself involved in a street Giht, for i stance, ought to be able to use all the weapons with which Nature has endowed him. Previous attempts to put the two systems to the test have failed because no English boxer would agree to his antagonist wearing boots. At length this indispensable condition accepted an English pugilist, Jerry Driscoll, and a fight was arranged between him and Charlemont, The encounter was genuine (enough, in the sense that both men fought their best, but it was inconclusive, The terms of the comparison were unequal, Charlemont is admittedly the best living performer with the savage, while Driscoll simply @ plucky but unscientific boxer.
gain, Charlemout is a professional instruc-for and Driscoll is a prize-fighter, which is quite another thing. Consequently, the terms of the comparison were unequal,
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