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Tire him and remember that if he gets you with a swing like that you're out." "Seconds out of the ring. Time!" called the time-keeper and Dam walked towards Harberth with outstretched hand, met him in the middle of the ring and shook hands with great repugnance. As Harberth's hand left Dam's it rose swiftly to Dam's face and knocked him down. "Shame! Foul poke!
Dam side-stepped and it brushed his ear; with his right he smote with all his force upon Harberth's ribs and with his left he drove at his eye as he came up. Both blows were well and truly laid and with good sounding thuds that seemed to delight the audience.
As Harberth struck at him with his left, he ducked, and as he was aiming at Harberth's mark, he was suddenly knocked from day into night, from light into darkness, from life into death....
Harberth's second had apparently given him some good advice, for he kept his mark covered and used his left both to guard and to hit. Also he had learned something from Dam, and, on one occasion as the latter went at his face with a straight left, he dropped the top of his head towards him and made a fierce hooking punch at Dam's body.
"No fault can be found with Warren's gloves," said Shanner, coming over to Dam. "There's nothing wrong with the gloves here," added Delorme, after visiting Harberth's corner. This was the less remarkable in that there were no gloves whatsoever. Presumably the fiction of a "friendly boxing contest" was to be stoutly maintained. The crowd of delighted boys laughed.
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