Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-15
STRONG AND CoURAGEOUsFIGHrER

An Australian Writer'S Picturesque
Tribute to Joe Goddard.
Hales, the Australian pugilistie
writer, says of Joe Goddard, the Bar
rier champion, who landed in San Fran
cisco ON Thursday to fghtJoe McAuliffe
at the California club in June:
ga grim, CHASTITY warrior is Goddard.
He is a peculiar type of fighter. He
makes no fancy passes. He INDUCES in
no dainty work, but, with frowning
brow and clenched teeth he stalks up to
his foe, and then, with a great bound,
he leaps clean in upon him, bearing
down his guard and smashing both
hands home on the body as blacksmith
Yields hot iron. God help the other
fellow when Goddard gets to
close quarters, for once there
his mighty arms, ribbed with
great muscles like knots on steel, never
cease to fly. Bang, smash, everything
goeswith him. He has but one motto,
VITO win, and to win quickly. Pun
ishment does not scare or stop him: it
only seems to madden the man and
make him more eager for the conflict.
I saw Dunn catch him on the point so
hardsand strong that the blow lifted
Goddard clean out of the ring. He was
mp and fighting again in nine seconds.
Choyinski split his chin to the bone
right on the point and dropped him
like q dead man, not once, but on two
occasions, but he was up and after his
mansfor more of the same sort, all in
good time. Mickey Dooley lashed the
chinNpoint almost Of him with his great
right hand, and dowu fell the Barrier"
boy as the oak falls when the tempest
is at it's full, but he climbed up
and belted the immortal soul
out of Dooley, and won out.
Goddard has no system. He simply
sights his foe and goes after him, like
the devil after 1eserter. You drop
him, and he is up and hurls himself on
his enemy. Smashed in the face until
his nose is broken and his cheek bone is
laid bare, he smiles that old grim smile
of his, and, bracing himself for the
shock, he charges on once more. Give
me 500 nen like him and I'll undertake
to storm Gibraltar. Ee is grizzly war
rior. Nature made him soldier and
born leader of forlorn hopes and frantic,
reckless rallies. He is game, with the
she-wolfs courage. and strong, with the
strength ct an OK. have seen him fight
often, and every time he has carried
his arms to victory by sheer stam-
ina, pluck, and devilment. Bleed
ing, battered, with eyes closing, with
fesk cut almost from the bones, l have
seen him reel to his corner dead
whipped, hie great frame shivering from
head to heel from punishment and ex-
ertion. A minute later he springs from
his corner asfresh as new paint on the
cheeks of barmaid. Had he started
in the game in his youth, so as to have
become cleverer, he would have whipped
all creation between the highest hill and
the deepest pit in Australia. A giant
like Joe McAulisfe, landing his great fist
on Joe'sstubbornjaw ,maysend him down
and keep him down. / do rot say that
such may not happen, but 4his I do
know, that the punch that can make
Goddard dream of @'home and mother"
will have to be hard enough to split
California's big trees. The sports on
the Pacific coast can bet their last dollar
that the Australian will win if he can.
He will not sell battle. In the ring
he is six-foot lump Of uglinese, show
ing no mercy, expecting no quarter.
He fights like fiend. Out of the ring
he is quiet, level and inofensive.
In condition he scales about 1856 pounds,
and stands a shade ever six feet high.