Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-20

a man is disgusting. never did It in
any of my goes, and / see no reason
why other fighters should be allowed
to.
It looks like a farce to see a referee
standing over the k~nock-down man
counting "One two!" and then turning
half way around to the ma on his feet,
saying, "Step back there, will you,
please-Three. four-will you git back
there, Ill-fve, six, Ii you don't get
back I'll decide-seven against you
eight.-why don't you understand, git
back-nine,-you ought to be dis-tsn.
out" Perhaps the fellow on the
floor has been down twenty seconds
or more, instead of ten, for the referee
| counts as he pleases. This sort OF
| counting is not on the level and is dead
| wrong.
Then there's another monkey act q
| referee does that makes me tired, and
that's continually jumping in W
the fighters and pushing them apart.
| Some of these lobster referees even go
SO far as to shut off a mans wind by
placing his arm across his throat and
pressing his head back. Ia like to
have some fresh referee try that on me
il | was fighting in the ring. | think
would pay more attention to him for
O. few moments than to the man IN
front of me; yes, | would soak hIlIi a
good stiff one and put him out OF BUS
mess. The fact of the matter is a ref
cree has no business whatever IN the
ring, but you know all American hght-
| ers and the fellows that follow up the
! sport are educated that way and 1t
would be rather hard to now keep the
| referee outside the ropes on this side
OF the Atlantic. They keep referees
outside the ring in England and &Aus-
traiia, but l fear it's too late to put
that rule in practice in America.
OF course, refereeing is n OF the
most thankless jobs in the world. You
can lose more friends in one night by
referring than you can make in ten
years. | don't want any Of it for mine.
I've acted in that position several times
and nave always given my honest de-
| cision, and on several occasions have
been roasted from Maine to California
for being strictly on the level. The
only fight | would referee is a big
championship battle, but to tell the
truth I'm not even stuck on refereeing
ore of them.
| see the Marquis of QueenSberry
passed in his chips the other day over
ir England. I've met him several
times and l must say | found him to be
a pretty decent sort of a chap for one
OF his kind. Of course, these English
noblemen mix up in a different push
from us fellows over here and get diff
fo.ov4 ;Joo- I,14 0no0 II, n uyhi1o you'll
meet a good fellow among them like
Queensberry, who, by the way, could
handle his dukes to the Queens taste.
The Prince of Wales, for instance, is
not a bad fellow by any means. He
quite surprised me by his democratic
manners and ideas when | met him in
London some years ago. He treated
me- all right and wanted to stake me for
boxing before him, but wouldn't have
it, so he sent me a present of a very
handsome cane.
It's now over seven months since l
have tasted any beer, wine or liquor of
any kind. | take a little active eXer-
else every morning of my life, al
though it does not seem to decrease my
weight, but I'm feeling like a fighting
cock in prime condition and wouldn't
mind a bit going up against some of
those big fellows-say six rounds. I
think six is my limit nowadays. You
see Pm too big to go any distance, but
a couple of months in some quiet
country spot would put me all right for
six rounds, and I think ! could show
some of these newspaper fighters | can
punch just as hard as ever. l feel very
confident that could get there-neyer
felt better in my life-booze and I
have parted forever think I've had
enough of it.