Article clipped from Saint Johns Weekly News

THE'SAVaTEMN boxing.It is hard to mako an Englishman believe that a kick,however delivered, is legitimate fighting. The Frenchmans point of view is different. / He thinks that if a man is set upon by ''two or three ‘ftuffians, the pereon'so attacked should* be able to defend himself with a.l the j limbs he has. The use of the foot,therefore, lias been bropg^t down by a system in Frafco, but I was astonished to fibd, on investigating this subject, that’ many English boxershave a great admiration fur thd FrenchSavate, anti in each of thrj . taxingited iu!^ I^rjsTaaV ►evonil Englishmendtci/jg tmim'd to wield theschools I visited iu«’ Ilight frankvstic loe in a way that wo«ht make Miw Lottie- Collins shuddcr.-Hubert Jhirr in McClure # Mmjnzine c.-. « _'
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Saint Johns Weekly News

Saint Johns, Newfoundland, CA

Thu, Oct 11, 1894

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