St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-26
Gentleman Jim Makes a Fa-
vorable Impression on the
Fair interviewer,
Who Proceeds to Expatiate on
dukes" and "MitJs" and
"Piekling,"
And Generally Inform Femi-
nine Readers Oh Matters
Strictly Pugilistie.

There is no denying the fact that the
average woman is far inferior to the
average man in intellect. She can't
throw stone with any reasonable GER
tainty as to what it will hit. She goes
to ball games and finds it very difficult
to distinguish between fair ball and
hole III the ground; she doesn't appre-
ciate dog fights as an artistic amuse-
ment. She plays the horse with the
prettiest name, and when it comes to
fstic cOmbatS she doesn't even know
who is champion. There are some
things woman really needs to know
before she can associate with men as an
Intellectual, educated equal, and fight
Ing Is one of them. This is why this is
written. 1t is valuable information.
One of my men friends introduced me
to ParsOn Davies. 1t wasn't the man
who introduced the famous clergyman to
Thomas Cochran, but it was somebody
who knew him well. Now, ParsOn Da
vies may carry butcher knives in his
boots, but he doesn't look it. He looks
as jolly as a sand boy, if you know what
that is. When he laughs his eyes snap
and sparkle. and he shows fascinat-
ingly white set of teeth. He can be
very entertaining, for he has all the
time most men spend in twisting their
mOustaehes to give to being pleasant.
A man who wears a mOuStache can
always fill in an awkward pause by
curling the ends of it. The man with
ont n hoe To EIt in nd
gaps with remarks. and Mr.. Davies
doesn't mind answering questions.
which is a great virtue in man. Tues
day he is to play Charles the Wrestler
in LAS You Like It," at Burlington
Park, Chicago. Joseph Haworth is to
be Orlando, and, says Parson Davies, II
mean to give him a fight. too. Pm not
quite sure but that will give him
Too Much of Fight
Il am in training now. l spend some
time every day in the gymnasium in
being Hailed around and
This was dreadful. Just then a tall,
well prOportioned man came in, and
saved me from farther puns. 1t was
Hall. He didn't SWagger. He didn't
make shelf of his lower Jaw. He
didn't wear plaid clothes or red neck
tie, and he didn't say See" He didn't
wear his hair becomIngly, but L hardly
felt called on to mention it. His clothes
were rather dark grey cheviot, and he
wore patent leather shoes on very well
shaped feet. He looked like a great
gOod-natured boy, such as one sees four
times on every block. His hands are
not at all large, but when he shook
hands with me it reminded me of one
time | had my baud squeezed in a crack
in a 1OOP I fplt lirtIa li nv
asking him personal questions, butafter
a minute l began, and this is what we
said. The fighter has an intensely Eng
lish accent. and intersperses his remarks
with Don't y'know"
How did you come to adopt fighting
as professions
My victim laughed.
WELL" he said, "when [ was a boy
In AuStralia-a Sunday school boy, you
Know thought it a fine thing to be
the boss of the gang. l had to whip
every other boy. | was a plasterer by
trade, and one Saturday afternoon as l
was going home from work on Barrack
hill fellow bumps up against me.
didn't stand it, and-dOn't y'know-
well, he whipped me. My feelings
were hurt and | began to take boxing
lessons. That's how l began"
lit is that. It's hard on the eyes and
very painful on the RIBS
And l talked, and he talked, and l
found out everything l wanted to know.
When you train for fight it is harder
work than having nine new dresses
fitted. You walk five miles before
breakfast and fourteen after breakfast.
You get up at half-past and go to bed
at 9. You nave such mOnstrOuS things
to eat that you think
Toast With Currants
in it luxury. You lift dumbbells-
heavy ones for strength and light ones
for swiftnesS-and skip rope. You
must not drink, and smoking will thick
Ell your wind. Then you have to be
picked. Picking will tougher your
flesh. So you are soaked in a mixture
of hOrseradish, vinegar, rock salt and
ammonia. After that a cannon bail
couldn't dent you.
have never seen a real scientific
fight, but know just how it is done.
First, you get the fighters. If they are
featherweightS they must weigh be-
tween 10 and 122 pounds. Lightweights
weigh from l22 to 1873 pounds, Next
come welteTwelghts, who weigh not
more than 40 pounds. middleweights
must not be heavier than 159 pounds,
and a heavyweight may weigh ANYTHING
his trainer will let him. You must have
three-minute periods of fighting. That's
what the papers mean by rounds. When
man IS knocked insensible-''put to
Sleep" they call tiff he can't collect
his senses in ten seconds. he
loses the fight. One minute elapses
between rounds, and if it is a fight to a
finish, the fighters keep at it till one of
them feels that he has been pounded
into sufficient state of mellOwness. 1t
Isn't really so dangerous as football or
riding, and a imam in good condition gets
DYer the effects Of his punishment" III
Rweek or so.
A good fighter will be cunning. A
dear little understanding baby is cum
ming, but with fighters it is different.
a cunning fighternever betrays by look
Dr. word what he intends to do next.
md always hits in unexpected places.
The most Vulnerable point is Oh the
Jaw, Just at the side of the chin, and
right vigorous blow there will make a
man as Senseless as q broken tOv bank.
You call the swollen mittens fighters
wear ''mitts," and the hands inside of
them dukes"
There's a cactus in Australia, the
Juice OF which will restore the original
hue TO a blackened eye, but in America
One uses just aTnica and time.
How long will you fight, Mr.. Hall?''
1.-TWO years longer. Then Pm going
into some business-dOn't know what"
thought and thought. Then l de-
cided knew enough about fighting to
read the newspaper accounts of the next
fght.with some degree of intelligence.
l smiled, and Hall smiled, and | came
away with not half so bad an opinion of
the pugilistie fraternity as 1 know l