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I am pleased to announce the republication of "The Art of In-Fighting" by Frank Klaus.

The download is, as always, free.

Special thanks to Professor Bruno Cruicchi, collector and life-long Martial Artist for providing the original of this book for me to republish.

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/t ... g/15104806

Marketoid blurb:

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in Frank Klaus was a German-American boxer. His professional career spanning 39 matches netted 32 wins 21 by KO. He won the Middleweight Championship of the world in 1913 and was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1974.

Acclaimed as an inside fighter, in approximately late 1913 or some time thereafter he penned his book of instruction on in-fighting.

Klaus packs a great number of photograph into his work for such a comparatively short and focused book: 27 in all including several “action shots” from his fights giving this book a ratio of about 1 photo for every 2 ½ pages of instruction.

Particular gems include “The Liver Punch,” “Feigning ‘Grogginess’,” and “Beating an Opponent by Punching his Gloved Hands or Arms.”

Truly a Historic Boxing “must have!”

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

Great stuff! funny how in the intro Klaus says the exact opposite of what Driscoll writes in his book

Panzerfaust wrote:Great stuff! funny how in the intro Klaus says the exact opposite of what Driscoll writes in his book

Yeah, it's neat to see the competing theories in print.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

After an operation whereby monkey's glands were grafted into his body, Frank Klaus, former Middleweight Champion, will attempt to come back in the roped arena and regain his crown.

"I never was in better physical health in my life than I am right now and I believe my vitality is stronger every day" he says.
Klaus kept the operation a secret at first, no-one but his wife knew that the operation was performed.

"I was advised by a friend who returned from France a few months ago to try the operation" said Klaus. "Through the aid of a prominent Pittsburgh doctor, who is at the head of one of the largest hospitals here, I had the job done."

Klaus has had offers to fight in England and Belgium and will sail for the latter country next month.

(The Milwaukee Journal - Feb 10, 1920)


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some more info i found...

"One of the most interesting chapters in the long
history of the male hormone involves the medical career of Dr.
Serge Voronoff, a Russian-French surgeon who earned an
international reputation—and a great deal of money—back in
the 1920s by transplanting slices of monkey testicles into aging
men seeking a new physiological lease on life. Even today,
many people who lived through the 1920s and 1930s will recall
the term “monkey glands” and what it suggested about the men
who sought to have them implanted on or near their own sexual
organs.

The monkey gland operation played a very marginal
and rather bizarre role in the sporting life of that period. A
former middle-weight boxing champion of the world named
Frank Klaus, clearly hoping for a comeback, publicly announced his own operation, but even the simian glands could
not revive his career.
Meanwhile, similar operations had been underway at
San Quentin Prison in California. From time to time the
testicles of executed criminals were transplanted into other
inmates who were judged to be gland-deficient. At the prison’s
Thanksgiving Games in 1923, sportsmedical news was being
made. As the medical historian David Hamilton reports: “Glandtransplanted inmates did well, and the seventy-year-old John
Person, who was carrying an extra grafted testicle, came a good
second in the fifty-yard dash, beating several younger inmates
with only two testicles.”

Hello L.K. Lawson,

Thank you for this information, very interesting and the Frank Klaus book on inside fighting I am sure is a great read for people who would like to understand the inner mechanics of successful inside fighting during the time period following Bare Knuckle Boxing.

Sincerely

Mikey Capp

I'd never heard of this monkey gland stuff, insane but interesting!!

Tomasino wrote:I'd never heard of this monkey gland stuff, insane but interesting!!

If I had a monkey gland I'd want to drain it regularly.

There's a cocktail called monkey gland, was looking at it yesterday.

There was a thing on TV the other week about genetics, hour long or so about performance and so on. I think it covered Serge Voronoff but I can't remember which channel it was on. Think it was a 3-parter. Pretty interesting/bizarre, depending on your POV.