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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: violence of the attack, he dropped his ring tactics and closed in to
straight slugging, blow against blow, stand up, give and take.
As he saw his opponent stand, Orde uttered a sound of satisfaction.
He dropped slightly his right shoulder behind his next blow. The
glove crashed straight as a pile-driver through Murphy's upraised
hands to his face, which it met with a smack. The trainer, lifted
bodily from the ground, was hurled through the air, to land doubled
up against the supports of a parallel bars. There he lay quite
still, his palms up, his head sunk forward.
Orde stared at him a moment in astonishment, as though expecting him
to arise. When, however, he perceived that Murphy was in reality
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