O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 85
not directly behind ;weiij:ht of the l)ody on the foremoM le(i. DONNELLY AND COOPER ON THE CURRAGH. 61 The blows tanaht bv Mendoza were of threekinds— round, straight, and chopping blows.The round blow he considered the unskilled ef-fort ; and, strange to say, he depended most onthe silly *… … CROSS-COU>TERED. (Instantaneous Photograph.) cross-counter, the upper-cut, or the scientificround blow, — the three best blows of modernboxinc:. In Mendozas time, gouging, that is, scoop-ing out the eyes of an opponent, was constantlypractised; and, in other respects, the prize-ringwas a place…
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