The Mineral argus., 1883-09-27
PRIZE
Ben Hogan's Experiences in the Ring an,
RecO1estions of PugalIsts.
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Ben Hogan's Experiences in the Ring and
RecOIieetions of PugalIsts.
From the Chicago News.
You want to know how much damage
prize fighting does to the human anatomy
do ou?P said Ben Hogan. the evangelist
andex- prize fighter. We'll, take a look at
me. l am in much better condition than
was when l reformed, three and q half years
ago, but l estimate that my vitality is only
fifty per cent. of what it would have been
If | had never been a fighter. The shocks
and bruises that a man gets in the ring hurt
him more ten years afterward than they do
when he gets them. l have been terribly
beat on the head in NV time, md those old
wounds reopen regularly once a year.
When l was % years old / was so strong
and healthy that nothing could tire me.
used TO think that a man was simply a fol
who got tired. But at present, when 1
ought by rights to be still stronger. it wor-
ries me even to stand on a platform and
talk"
They die prematurely of weakness and
disease brought on by their injuries. In
fact, they die at or about tho time when, if
they had not been prize-fighters, they would
have been at the prime of life. Charley
Gallagher died at the age of 80, of con-
sumption, caused by an injury received in
bis fight with Davis. Davis fell on him,
planting his knee in his upper left breast.
Brandy bears the blame of killing Tom
Sayers, but, in my opinion, he died Of the
injuries inflicted by John @. Heenan.
Heenan jumped of q train and hurt him
self End some lay the blame of premature
dea,h on that accident, but he died OF
consumption, produced, in my opinion, by
over-training, and by the punishment he
got in his fight with Savers and King.
John Morrissey's death is layed on Brights
Disease. but he had stood beating enough
I'd kill ten men, and l believe that is what
killed him. Yankee Sullivan is said to have
been killed by a vigilance committee.
but the truth is that he went crazy from
injuries to his head he had received, and
committed suicide by opening an artery.
Patsy Riordan, one Of the grandest men
physically that ever lived, died at SO, a
complete physical aud mental wreck. Bob
Ri die died the same way, the very flesh
dropping off his fingers. Joe Womble died
in a Montreal insane asylum. And so they
90, all Of them diving at what ought to be
the prime of life"
what do yo1 think Of the effects of the
training that prize-fghters undergo, when
they are going to tight2"
1T is possible to oycrdo it. and then il
is N injury. But these seldom happens.
aNAeAeA1 ~ a. NAAl ANnbuEAdlg duI ! - "a
great pity that everybody isn't trained the
same way. If 1 had gone into training al
20 years of age, and never left it until
l died, would have lived 100 years, with
out doubt. l am a great advocate of
physical trimming, and think boxing a good
exercise, though somewhat Objectionable
ON account of being e sort Of temptation to
lighting"
"what do you think of the IMMORAL ten
denotes of prize ihting?"
Us the ill-health of fighters due to the
pounding they get OF to d;ssipaticn2"
1T is due to both, and TO one about as
much as another. But the terrible bodily
they receive are beyond dispute.
The worst injuries are not always those
which knock a man out Of his senses, like
Sullivan's last blow az Ryan. Il is evident
that that blow landed on the jugular vein.
This is a well understood and much covet-
ed blow among prize fighters, not because
% permanently oisabies a man, but because
{ makes him iusensible so long that he
,lut come 10 time. Severe bruises about
he chest and ribs are much more apt to in
iic tpermanent injury"
How do pT~izs-fghters die, as far as
7our observation goes?"
"As TO the in moral and depTlving effects
" p~rize-fgGting there is no difference Of
lIlihlou, 1 use tuou8u L MAY KNOW us
fleets more particularly than most people.
Iust as quarreling leads to fighting, %
leads TO quarreling and hatred. 1t
s useless to say that people ever fight with
hating each other. The very passions
II the pit rage among sporting people, and
specially Rmoung fighters. They begin
their fists. but they soon get past that,
nd take 20 useing knives and pistols.
Tow, if all this isn't the devils own work,
What is il? There is little enough love
mong men already, heaven knows, with
ut calling il sport to main a man for life,
teaching the young that the greatest
accomplishment is to draw each others
lood and gouge out each others eyes"
Are you speaking from experienced"
"Yes. When l was a prize-fghter l al
iays had q fight or hand, whether IL was in
be ring or not l was always hating and
and there was scarcely q day when
az life was safe. The business made me
nuttenbly wretched, and debased me in
very possible way. Would that there were
a end of It'll"
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