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Tli© •‘Savat©’* In Boxing.It is hard to inako an Englishman bo-lievo that a kick, however delivered, is legitimate lighting. The Frenchman’s point of view is different. He thinks that if a man is sot upon by two or three ruffians, the person so attacked should ho able to defend himself with all the limbs ho has. The use of the foot therefore has been brought down to a system in France, and I was astonished to find, on investigating this subject, that many English boxers have a great admiration for the French *lsavate,M and in each of tho boxing schools I visited in Paris I saw several Englishmen being trained to wield the light fantastic toe In a way that would make Miss Lot tie Collins shudder.—Robert Harr in McClure’s Magazine.
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Bloomington Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Wed, Sep 19, 1894
Page 2
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Savate M.
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