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ETHICS OF BOXING AND MANLY SPORT.

Here is another rendering of the same fight from Pope's translation:

"That instant Irus his huge arm extends,
Full on his shoulder the rude weight descends,
The sage Ulysses fearful to disclose
The hero latent in the man of woes,
Cheek'd half his might, yet, rising to the stroke,
His jawbone dash'd; the crashing jawbone broke.'*

Now, let us analyze this engagement. Iras leads with his left at Ulysses' head, and his blow falls on the right shoulder. Therefore, Ulysses

A STRAIGHT CROSS-COUNTER
(Instantaneous Photograph.)

did just what to-day Sullivan or Smith would do; he moved his head to the left, and let the blow come full on his right shoulder—with a purpose. For he, at the same moment, "rising to the stroke," crossed Irus' arm with his right, "struck him just beneath the ear," broke his jaw, and