Journal of a Tour And Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 And 1811 1
Journal of a Tour And Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 And 1811 1
L Louis Simond
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Fighting for the sake of improve-^ ment is called sparring,— -and in good earnest, box-^ ing. In sparring, the hand is covered with mucb the same sort of glove as in fencing. I have beei» tak^i to a fivesK^ourt, where I have seen some of thes 124 'tQWDon^ruoitMM. best professors, and soiite anwte ur»of thm nekie aft, spar. Two combata&ts, naked to the waiat, aseen- ded a theatre or staffe, fifteen or twettty feet square^ aiKl three or four bi^h, erecWd in! t^ eentre of the fives^onrt ; each bad... hift second; they sheiok haaods, like the salute in feneiagy^-^then on their giMffd ; one foot forward^-^knees a little bent» — the prin- cipal weight of the body oa the foreinost leg?-^ fist held to the height of ^e ohin, at Uie distance of about a foot. In this attitude the opmbatants observe each other, eye to eye, watobkig thfeir opportunity to place a blow, which is darted* rather than struck, with the back of the haiid or kEkuckles; a Hioderate blow well planted, giifes 9 fall. The blows are parried with the outside of the arm, or with one hand, while the other re« turns the blow.
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