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Athletics and manly sport (1890)

O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 · Boston, Pilot publishing company · leaf 34

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he 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… … 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…

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