Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-25
JACK CLIFFORD
HAS THE PUNCH.
Herrera Says He is the Hardest
Hitter He Ever Fought
MEx'S EARLY EXPERIENCE.
Bishop Agrees TO Allow Herrera 20
Bieet Dswney at 1870 Pounds
~ six o'clock.

Aurelio Herrera, the little Mexican
fighter who is now sojourning in the
city. spent the greater part of yester-
day looking about town, In the after
noon ho paid visit to the police and
fro departments. and for am hour re-
called the crowd that followed him
around with "reminiscences Of his ear
ly experience in the roped arena. He
has quiet. unassumng way about
him. and the only thing in his makeup
that is really conspicuous IS couple OF
extremely large and brilliant diamonds,
one In his Mexican effect neckte and
the other on the little finger of his left
hand.
What know about the boxing
game | picked up from observing 9th
ers," he said, IL was never taught ]
did not attend a gymnasium and go
through lessons with q teacher II all
came naturally. | was raised In
small town In California, and used TO
box n great deal with the boys there,
Finally, ! learned that l could whip all
Of them as fast as they came. When
ever ! saw movement In the ring
that struck my fancy practlsed IL. AZ
ter q while | concluded to go to Los
Angeles and seek q match, | went to
one OF the club managers and told him
who / was and asked for match lie
said he would try me out. ! supposed
that he meant | was TO go on prellm
mary and do light boxing, but i found
was mistaken, They put the toughest
youngster In the town against me and
gave us five ounce gloves. When | got
TO my corner, saw The big crowd aud
then saw those little gloves my heart
failed me and / told one of my seconds
that | did not come to fight. | wanted
to quit right there, but the man in my
corner was an old hand at the business
and he told me / was In for II and
would have 10 fight. | heard one OF the
spectators remark that | stripped WELL
Another one said, oh, the d-n
greaser cant fight, except with knife
That made me sore Then heard an
other one say that ! looked good 10
him Well. that kind OF put the heart In
ne, but | was stlll badly scared when
! walked TO the center Of the ring. In
the first round this tough youngster
rushed az me and hammered me about
the ring, but ! was not hurt, In the
second round | began TO iab him and
found that he could not hit me II kept
my head, When ! went to my corner |
rod my second that I could win. He
advised me not to try but | was deter
mined. II was there ] learned | had
good punch | went after that fellow
ana 10 the sixth round put HIM out
completely | had several fights there
and won them all until J met McGoy-
ern. In that fight claim | was given
pretty bad deal, but never mind, |
neevr claim can whip anybody. ! say
will do the best / can TO protect my
self and my friends. To make long
story short ! have been lighting ever
since"
In speaking of his fight in Butte with
Clifford, Herrera said
while that fight was not the hard
est | ever had, | win say this much
for Mr.. clifford Tie is the hardest HIT
ter | ever met. That boy has an awful
walop and could be made one of the
best lightwelghts In the business II he
would only take advice from people
who understand the game But his trou-
bic Is like that of many others, he
knows Il all and viii not take advice Z"
In talking about his little Mexican
wonder this morning, Bishop, his man.
ager, said
"fll tell you about this little fell
low AT times he appears a dub IN the
ring, but the secret OF his success lies
IN the fact that he fools his opponents
In two ways. He appears TO them SLOW
when he Is really better than they
think, Then he has punch that Is
simply awful. II makes no difference
who the man Is, II Herrera lands that
right on him he goes down. His punch
comes so quickly and hard that Il
takes all the fight out Of his opponent"
Manager Bishop hopes to be able to
make a match with Aurello's brother
Mauro while here, Bishop would like to
match him with Tommy Markham, the
Eureka boy, who has been wading
through the lightweights recently.
The Bishops held two conferences
yesterday to try and arrange a match
between the Mexican and Jack Downey.
At the first meeting Biddy refused 10
fight at 1870 pounds. The best he would
do was l2S but at the second meeting
he nnallly agreed to let his man 20 on
at 1870 at 6 o'clock on the afternoon or