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The MODERN Fighter has lost his PHYSICAL Fitness!
| By JIM DONALD. |
IT is the opinion of veteran ringsiders that Australian pugilists of today are less tough, hardy, resolute and enduring than those of the olden time.
The Mick and Charlie Dunns, Jim Barrons and Chiddy Ryans, of old Sydney town, are emphatic in their septuagenarian scorning of the pluck, condition and capabilities of the modern mitt-slinger, and his man Friday, the ‘la-de-da trainer,’ as grim old Charlie Dunn expresses it.
There’s a large slab of truth in the old ‘uns’ contention that there is a certain slackness and softening in the timbre of Thumpia. A stiff old-time preparation would prostrate the majority of present-day pugs, and conditioners. Let us go back to the dawn of things and swings. The great days of t
