E-text prepared by MWS, Wayne Hammond, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57329-h.htm or 57329-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57329/57329-h/57329-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57329/57329-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/knucklesgloves00lyncuoft Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: N^o). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: S^{ir}). [Illustration: “THE CLOSE OF THE BATTLE, OR THE CHAMPION TRIUMPHANT. 1. Round.--Sparring for one minute, Cribb made play right and left, a right-handed blow told slightly on the body of Molineux, who returned it on the head, and a rally followed, the Black knocked down by a hit on the throat. 2.--Cribb showed first blood from the mouth, a dreadful rally, Cribb put in a good body-hit, returned by the Moor on the head. Closing, Cribb thrown. 3.--Cribb’s right eye nearly closed, another rally, the Black deficient in wind receives a doubler in the body. Cribb damaged in both eyes and thrown. 4.--Rally, hits exchanged. Cribb fell with a slight hit and manifested first weakness. 5.--Rallying renewed. Cribb fell from a blow and received another in falling. 6.--The Black, fatigued by want of wind, a blow at the body-mark doubles him up, and is floored by a hit at great length. 7.--Black runs in intemperately, receives several violent blows about the neck and juggler, falls from weakness. 8.--Black rallies, Cribb nobs him, gets his head under his left arm, and just fibbed till the Moor fell. 9.--Black runs in, met with a left-handed blow which broke his jaw, and fell like a log. 10.--Black, with difficulty, made an unsuccessful effort and fell from distress. 11.--This round ended the fight. Black received another knock-down and unable again to stand up.” _Frontispiece._] KNUCKLES AND GLOVES * * * * * * _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_: GLAMOUR CAKE UNOFFICIAL THE COMPLETE GENTLEMAN THE TENDER CONSCIENCE FORGOTTEN REALMS MAX BEERBOHM IN PERSPECTIVE THE COMPLETE AMATEUR BOXER * * * * * * KNUCKLES AND GLOVES by BOHUN LYNCH With a Preface by Sir Theodore Cook Illustrated [Illustration] London: 48 Pall Mall W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. Glasgow Melbourne Auckland Copyright First Impression, October, 1922 Second ” November, 1922 Manufactured in Great Britain To H. G. B. L.