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Updated: June 7, 2025
There was a formality and publicness about it that kind of weakened my nerve. I never won a fight in the ring. Light-weights and all kinds of scrubs used to sign up with my manager and then walk up and tap me on the wrist and see me fall. The minute I seen the crowd and a lot of gents in evening clothes down in front, and seen a professional come inside the ropes, I got as weak as ginger-ale.
The damage that two light-weights can inflict on each other with round-arm blows is inconsiderable, and Bobby was of the sort that punishment merely renders obstinate. Probably sheer lack of breath would in time have called the battle a draw, but all at once Bobby had an idea. So illuminating and sudden was it that for an instant he forgot what he was doing.
"But you didn't enter for the House Competitions, did you? What weight are you?" "Just under ten stone." "A light-weight. Why, Linton boxed for your house in the Light-Weights surely?" "Yes sir. They wouldn't let me go in." "You hurt yourself?" "No, sir." "Then why wouldn't they let you go in?" "Drummond thought Linton was better. He didn't know I boxed." "But this is very curious.
Tony watched them with interest and envy. 'How beastly nippy they are, he said. 'Wish I could duck like that, he added. 'Well, the 'ole thing there is you 'ave to watch the other man's eyes. But light-weights is always quicker at the duck than what heavier men are. You get the best boxing in the light-weights, though the feathers spar quicker.
"You know both our light-weights are on the sick list? I had just resigned myself to going down to Aldershot without any one to box, when a boy in Seymour's volunteered for the vacant place. I don't know if you knew him at school? Sheen. Do you remember him?" "Sheen?" cried O'Hara in amazement. "Not Sheen!"...
A Lieutenant-Commander appeared at the doorway from the smoking-room. "There will be an exhibition bout next," he shouted, "and then the final of the Light-weights!" A general move ensued on to the upper deck. The raised ring was in amidships before the after superstructure. The officers occupied tiers of chairs round three sides of the platform.
Light-weights or middle- weights have no business trafficking with heavy-weights in naval warfare. "Von Spee made a brave fight," said Sir Frederick, "but we kept him at a distance that suited us, without letting him get out of range." He had had the fortune to prove an established principle in action.
Wandering in the grounds before school, he came upon O'Hara, who, as has been stated before, had won the Light-Weights at Aldershot in the previous year. He had come to Wrykyn for the Sports. Here was the man to help him. O'Hara should put on the gloves with Sheen and report. "I'm in rather a difficulty, O'Hara," he said, "and you can help me." "What's that?" inquired O'Hara.
Meanwhile Dick the wrestler had grappled me, expecting to show off his art, of which indeed he had some small knowledge; but being quite of the light-weights, in a second he was flying after his companion Bob. Now these two men were hurt so badly, the light one having knocked his head against the lintel of the outer gate, that the rest had no desire to encounter the like misfortune.
Their popularity among both men and women was their undoing, and the king of the ring went down at last before that deadliest of light-weights, the microbe of tubercle, or some equally fatal and perhaps less reputable bacillus. The crockiest of spectators had a better chance of life than the magnificent young athlete whom he had come to admire.
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