The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-05

aging than they really arc. People grow
excited and condemn them 40 brutal be.
cause they zee the men striking each other
Their eyes arc not quick enough to see how
few Of tho blows land. in tho face, nor dc
they know how hard it Is to hurt the face Of
men are knocked out, and am now in q
position to state that it it does not hurt &c
be knocked ont. Nature has made express
provision for such emergencies. The blow
that inflicts the injury Gulls the sensibili-
ties, and the only really painful thing about
being knocked out II In the struggle to re.
gain consciousness and keep up the fight
Hyams, bruised and bleeding, rose nine
times from az many knock-down blows in
the last two rounds Of his fight with Mo.
Auli6e, and was finally knocked senseless
Yet the next day he stared in surprise al
q man who asked him il he was much in.
jured. He commended that McAuliffe had
not hut him at all; and know great many
You ask me how came to lose the fight
to La Blanche. should not have lost II,
did not lose it fairly. The match went
against me partly BY reason of foul COM
mitted BY the Marine and partly through
the fault of the referee, who ought to have
Immediately given me the fight. Up to the
In fact. was winning with plenty of space
When the bell rang for the end of the round
We ceased sparring and turned my back tc
La Blanche and walked off toward my cor.
ner. He started towards his corner, but
turned and ran after me. Suddenly got a
blow on the neck that sent me staggering
to the ropes. It was the most cowardly
blow ever delivered. the most deliberate
foul ever perpetrated, in prize ring. was
dazed and weak from the cowardly
blow, and my seconds Immediately
claimed the fight for me on a foul. But
never yet won fight on foul and would
not win from the Marine in that fashion.
Besides, the referees hesitation had put
him in bad position. So refused to win
on foul and evened matters up and took
the referee out of q fix by continuing the
round till we we're pulled apart. I,neyer
fully recovered after La Blanche hit me
that foul blow. l have tried every thing
short ct striking him to bring him into .
contest con with a me again, but he has again
would get him to face me now.
u course, lost no championship when
faced La Blanche. / was giving him l21d
pounds, and after he defeated me was still
middle-weight champion Of America, which
suppose means the world.
A great many of my friends have written
to ask me whether or not I am going to
England. Idon't know. lam considering
the matter. It all depends ON what find
out to be the prospect. What would be the
use Of my going to England at present?
They haye number of good men there
Iof Wall, Bill GOode and Ted Prichard-
but nobody knows which one of these three
10 the best. and they all claim to be cham
pion middle weights of England. Iwould
like to see them settle the question among
themselves. and when they had finally found
out who was the real champion, would be
willing to make match with him for reas-
enable terms, and toss up to see whether he
shall come to America to fight me, or shall
60 to England to fight him. don't know
how good these English middle-weights
are. They have not fought any of the
no means Of comparing them; but judging
from the fate of other English wonders
like Wallace and Jem Smith, they are NO
more than match for frst-class Ameri-
can fighters of their own weight.
don't know anything about Bob Fitz-
simmons. the latest importation from Aus
tralia, except that he whipped MCCARTHY in