The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-23
APOLLO-LIkE
FIGHTERS SCARCE.
Jack Sullivan Says Few Ring He
roes Come Up to Ideal Meas
urements-Gossip.

81 see that Doctor Sergeant of Harvard
University believes he has discovered the
ideal athlete" said Jack Sullivan yester-
day., land that this young fellow does not
fill any of the qualifications laid down by
physical culture charts other than the
possession of abnormal strength.
This young man. it is said, is built
more on the long, rangy order. with none
Of his muscles developed exceptionally
strongly. Yet he possesses the physical
strength necessary to let him score more
points In physical contest than any man
at Harvard. regardless of how little he
would score according to an anthropome-
trio chart
This fact is being commented on by the
Eastern papers. Yet how many OF the
conform to the generally accepted ideas
of physical perfection? How many would
stack up with the Apollo Beivedere or
with With the average physical measurement 4ssi
class man who would do it.
Take Abe Attell and Syracuse Tommy
Ryan. Both are exceptionally quick on
work in their battles I As a result, both
have abnormally developed and we'll
muscled legs, which seem far too heavy
Tor their bodies. BY contrast, their torsos
Now take Young Corbett. James ].
Corbett and John L. Sullivan. All are or
were wonders of the ring. yet all had legs
Young Corbett's legs are not unduly thin.
but his shoulders are developed so much
That his lower eXtremities seem ell out OIL
proportion.
lin Corbett's legs always were slender
for man of his size So were Sullfvan's
AS for Bob Fitzsimmons. his build would
lead one, to believe that he was a weak
ling, rather than one of the hardest hit
tiers in the ring. Jeffries can't be used for
an example, for he is exceptionally heavy
In some parts of his frame and unduly
light in others-his legs, for instance.
ITO find perfectly proportional man
in the ring would be diflcuit. / hear that
Eddie Hanlon and frankie Neil come
nearer to the generally accepted type OF
any other fighters Joe Walcott is of
nuggety. lumpy build that gives the i'm
preston of power, but that Is not what
could be called well,,proportioned Joe
closer to- the statuesQue type than most
fighters Little Johnny Regan. is nicely
built but Is rather too rangy in appear
ance. Feltz is beautifully proportioned,
but is just a trifie too heavy around chest
and shoulders
Sizing the men Of the modern ring up.
6 aa It Is to R a
way. OF course, the fact that. they are
always training for. the development of
their punch works their shoulder muscles
the case Of the average athlete,
I'VE find many men who are perfectly
formed and pleasing to the eye among
fighter has some part of his body unduIy
developed or undeveloped in most cases.
which spoils his percentage in the scale Of
perfect proportion.
Andy Walsh, who was here all last
summer and who is now at Pueblo, Colo,
writes to the sporting editor of The Re-
public that the climate out in that region
agrees with him. and. that prospects for
getting on match are first class, when he
Is through with the bouts In which he is
already engaged
He fought Morgan Williams last night
for 60 per cent of the receipts. The affair
was twenty-round go. and Andy has
two or three similar affairs scheduled to
follow that battle.
Charley Haughton stated yesterday that
he had strong hopes Of resuming opera
tons at the West End Club about jan
uary Z. and that he would schedule the
Attell-Forbes battle for that date. He
said that he did not care to put on fight
in the holiday period and take chances of
pulling it of. inasmuch as the holidays
were not good fight days in st. Louis.
II tried one fight on a holiday and I'll
never do It again." he said. ''rhat was
the Bernstein White fight on New Years
LAY. L IIlal the HOUSE Woulu Uc
filed, as both men were good Just then.
but instead we had poor attendance and
the most listless crowd of spectators ever
saw.
Now this thing of having dead
crowd invariably affects the fight. / don't
know why 1t should, but it does. The
fighters seem to need that applause and
excitement which is stirred up by fast
milling.
"As a result the battle. which promised
to be great contest. settled down to a
slow affair and turned out to be merely
a case Of which could escape getting hit
the oftenest. 1t was farce. l will never.
put another fight on holiday. If can
avoid it,
Jack Crowley has been paying some
paternal interest to Billy Huber of late,
but he finds that scarpper so self-opin-
donated when 1t comes to training that it is
likely Huber will have to shift for him
self in the near future. Although Crow
ley had often offered to pay for medical
attention which Huber has required in the
last few weeks. Billy positively refuses to
go near physicians
It will be recalled that Huber's nose
was broken several weeks ago and that
not knowing that the member was frac-
tured. Later he developed sciatica and an
attack of blood poisoning. In neither case
would be consult physician, although
ordered to do so by Crowley.
The latter believes that Huber Is too
hard-headed to do anything with. so Billy
will likely have to manage himself in the
future.
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