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side certainly cannot be accounted for

side certainly cannot be accounted for
on that score.
South Africa appears to be the most
probable objective point, and to that
place the Kid will undoubtedly steer his
bark. There is money there, and the Kid
wants it. He appeared there few
years ago in several bouts. He beat
Billy Doherty, who was then considered
one of the kingpins in the middleweight
line. He beat him, and then got Kiipat-
rick, who possesses but one leg and a
reputation as a bicycle rider to go on with
him in a-fight that might be character
lied in this country as fake They
worked hard, but the wooden leg of the
bicyclist appeared to stand him in good
stead Is he used il on several occasions,
and although the doughty Kid desires to
meet the savetures of France he is not
prepared to meet the Hgnaeists of South
Africa, and after the fight was over, the
combatnats marched from the ring arm
in arm. But this is neither h re nor there.
Now is different from the past and now
is the time the Kid proposes to do bat
tie
Ii South Africa is the gold mine we are
led to believe it is there should be a
world of money in trip to Cape Of
Good Hope and the Kid has his eye on all
good things If they have fighters there
he will fight them df they are easy) if
the purses are. good, or the gates are
heavy. He knows that he will have to
rejuvenate himself here, and the reports
of two or three South African victories
may restore him to popular favor
Whether they do or not there will be no
doubt that the Kid will have the coin,
and that it will matter little whether the
public regard him as favorite or not.
Meantime his quandom friend and
associate will be entertaining the
suffering public with his historic
misplays, and probably drawing
the money from an easy lot
OIL theater goers. The Kid is a good one,
and viii some time in the future be seen
IN the ring as fighter. He will probably
learn his lesson and profit thereby.
by the way, do any of the witnesses Of
the ARRAY at Tattersalls stop to thinl,
mat Jack Root came into position that
night that places him in the line of the
Kids game. The Kid Las been side stem
ping the west side boy, and Dick O'Brien
himself adds his meda Of praise by saw
ing, "Oh, h, you. have as good Ief+
as he has" Now, this is not 4 case of
fulisome praise from a man who had beer
beaten the night before and who said
tIat his nose had not quit bleeding vet.
This was after / o'clock on the afternoon
OF the next day. Dick is a good. whole
;>ooieu IelIoR, as frank rs any mali could
possible be. There is no partieal OF brag
g9docia about him, and not hit of hy-
pocrisy. In the first fight with Root he
claimed nothing but his due, and added.
We'll, Jack, it's all in the game but he
never made any great cry at coming so
close to knocking the western boy out.
He always, at least whenever ir, Chicago.
speaks Of his opponents in an equitable
manner, and gives full credit to any man
who ever met him. He fought hard when
he met Root. but Root was too much for
him. OBrien is not gutter in any
sense of the word, and from the tar Of
the gong until the fatal ten was counted
he was working hard.
Jack was too much for him, and Dick
y Brien's remark that he has a good a
left as Mccoy Should put him IN line for
battle with the foXey Kid That is. of
course. when he returns from his trip to
the antipodes. But then Root can welt.
Fle is a comparative ycungster yet. He
does not dissipate, and is not likely to.
He works hard and if he is not on the
tor of the heap in a few years will for
felt any claim I may have to being a
prophet in the matter of pugilistic cham
plons. L. M. Houseman