To him Camera, one-time champion, "would never constitute a potential champion. In ring parlance, be had a glass jaw, was slow in his motions, and was hindered by his pituitary gland, which functions slowed rather that speeded up his endeavours in the ring. These opinions were voiced in spite of} Carnera's recent defeat in New York of Impelletiere, who, although a bigger _man than the contender lost. Cornera was outboxed, but his com= paratively greater ring science won for him, nis opponent's seconds tossing in the towel in the ninth round Referring to a number of ochts which Jack Dempsey won by his boring tactics, Mr, 'Tunney pointed out that his' skill was both psychological and physical and that Dempsey did not know the word retreat, even when apparently eaten,' "Would Dempsey have beaten Baer?" was the question—and in reply Mr, Tunney.was of the ime pression that age and experience being equal, Dempsey would have had a battle on his hands, but the decision should have been his, the ods willing.
The ring to-day was different from 2 years or more ago, The game tween himself and Mr. J. J. Walsh that he paid a visit to the school. think," Mr. Tunney said, "that boxing of all sports has the faculty of developing the masculine qualities more than any other. It teaches self reliance, self-control, self-protection, self-defence, and, lastly, self-centd fence in yourselves."
Mr, Tunney traced physical culture from the days before the Olympic Games to present times, and instilled in the minds of his young listeners fon ort Ro poet neneee Met hom the cre sz Someones days, "Sound mind, sound body.' Boxing, he said, started with the Olympic Games, was revived by the ghdiators of Roman days when pub-ie fights took place, then sank into obscurity until the seventeenth century. when prize-fighting started in England. Prize-fighting was governed by the London Prizes Ring Rules which formed the basis of present day boxing in England and America.
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