The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-15
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WORLDS BEST BOXERS
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q ONE Of my English friends get 1T.
y tie bit sore sometimes when they
read about the standing of pugilsm
In this country and when they hear that
We are turning out the best article ia the
line OF boxers over mere thcy turn Ethtu-
py and want 10 know why we take al the
credit for having tue real goods.
Maybe q sounds queer for me 10 talk
about I'VE" like ! do when | am az
EngIishmau by birth, but I'm an Ameri-
can citizen and I'm for the country that
gave me my real start ana made u pos
sible for me to get a blamed sight bet
ter living than / could corral any u mere
else that / know of. Besides, ] Ike the
country the people and the ways things
are handled. Here. when man believes
he deserves anything he goes and gets H.
and there Is no nonsense about II. The
question as 10 whether he deserves Ii or
not IL outside and he can comfort himself
with the thought that he deserves any
thing he can get
What / was going 10 say, though, was
that the United states has been turnimg
out champions for "a goJd many years
now and Ii looks % me as ii 10 was go
ing 70 go right along on thdt basis NheH
] say Champions / can enlarge tlat TO
mean champions Of most everything You
can think Of But I started out 10 mean
champion boxers.
IN the world aud it's going TO go right
along that Way. 1t can't help IL II IL
wanted TO. To be sure. there's mighty
few countries that are delivering any
goods Of that class. but You can't count
that. 1 should say that outside of Amer
lea, ENGLAND and her direct colonies.
there's not a real boxer coming from any
where / once did hear Of Il thinaman
who had an idea that he could put az
his hands, but some one took quick
punch at him once and he faded away INTO
somewhere. There used To, be q Jap,
too. but they re not built for the stand-up-
I
we can afford 10 waste ans time peeklne
over at Japan through a telescope Watch-
ing out for a carload of pugiists, they re
not coming over IN any cargo lOts' EhE
land as a fighter-prOduclng country ISM
IN the same class with this place. Nheth-
er it's getting worked out or whether The
climate breeds something slow ] dont
know, but its here that the real fighting
men come from. ] don't believe L m
throwing bouquets at myself Wneh L say
that I'm about the only champion that
ever came out of England and made good
right along. And then you've got TO re-
s.3ember that / was bred in Australia. ana
that the conditions over there are about
the same as they are here
OF course there's a reason for IT. and
the only thing / can think of right off the
reel is that over here we've got whole
lot of different breeds and that We get
the best Of each one Of them IN COM
bination. Every one knows that away
back the Jew used to put up "A pretty
stiff scrap. and he had the noble R0-
man on the run a WnUle lul- Dut tue Jew
sort of petered out after awhile, and as
pure stock fighter he didn't amount 10 a
whole lot,
The Italian-I mean the Old-timeT-used
10 put up IA rafting good hight. but he got
Vover his energy, TOO. and he don't cut
any ice any more with his hands. The
Irish are pretty good. but they haven [
the staying power that the others have.
and while they're all there at the start
they're like a race horse that's been
trained TO do a mile at top speed, and
is then sent out on a ten-mile sprint. You
know where he lands. There's no better
fighting stock IN the world TO-DAY than
the Irish-JeW. aud he's better Sttll when
hes born and brought up here and has a
little good American in him. You can
whip him much.
The Englishman is a good fighter tnever
mind the violets now, thanks. III waltz,
but he's q whole lot better when he
comes over here and gets ass.milated into
the country. When ne gets that cross
strain in him YOU can't whip him unless
YOU kill him. The Scotch makes a hot
boxer but he's slow until you cross him
with something speedy OF the l. ,. A.
and then he can go some.
That's why the best fighters in the
world come out right here. It's Ike the
bull terrier. The terrier viii pick tlghJ
with anything that walks or craWls. but
he can't last The bulldog doesn't get in
in and the cross Of the two can put up a
racket that is worth going TO see. II ;
the west though. that breeds the real
fighting men in this cOuntry-that Is the
heaVyweightS. / don't suppose there's
man on top of the earth at this minute
or We'H saw two years agO-that could
whiD Dim Jeffries. / Went after him
twice and ] couldn't do IL. and l never
said that before about any man, and bar
ring Jim. l won't say il about any man