My Fighting Life
- ISBN-10
- 1230396799
- ISBN-13
- 9781230396798
- Pages
- 52
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Georges Carpentier
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII MEN I HAVE FOUGHT I Would write of some of the fighters I have fought and others I have known. Jim Driscoll I shall always consider to have been one of the greatest of champions. It was not my good fortune to see him at his best, but even now there is no such stylist, no more perfect model of a boxer in all the countries. It is sometimes said that a boxer can scarcely hope to achieve greatness if he has unusual imagination. Driscoll destroys any such supposition. He has all the fire of his race; his brain is all life and sparkle; his eyes are all light and brightness; his form is a classical form; his face bespeaks high intelligence. Driscoll was never a fighter in the popular sense; he was, and even in the winter of his boxing days is, a wonderful man of boxing science. He has been described as the personification of the English school; but not the English school as it is to-day, for its members are given to running before they can walk. They are not deep-thinking students; they have never been taught as Driscoll was taught Charles Ledoux has told me that never has he been so belittled as he was by Driscoll.. This Ledoux, the majority of the critics say, is no boxer--just a slogger. Ledoux can and does box cleverly, but not like Driscoll. Driscoll was the king of all boxers. From Driscoll, by a close study of his ways, I learned the wisdom of always leading with the left hand; he taught me much about stance, and how to time my blows so that they would have all the weight of my body behind them. What a different fighter Pal Moore, the American bantam, would be if he had been taught and trained by Driscoll! In Moore we have a little man with the heart of a giant, astonishingly fast on his feet; but he does not know how to...
