The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-15

now. There's something IN that western
lie tnat makes real men. and they ncVel
Know when they've GOT enough OF cours,
10 man knows when he's going To gel
trimmed. and when he does lis always by
q younger man than himself except II
one or two cases
Some Of the wise boys who study out
the reasons why and because say thai
any nation will drift down the slope
after awhile just the same as a man
will towards the end OF his life, and
one of the quickest signs to my mlhd
is that when nation begins TO stol
putting forth real fighters with their
! hands. that nation is dropping down the
rise on the far side It's only an idea
! but ] think I've hit it right Any
way, it's good bet and worth a little
playins.
/ never heard of a fighter yet that
came from any one of those other couh-
tries-the ltalvs, the GeFmanys and inc
russians. you knoW-that ever amour. :
"a 10 anything with his hands. MAY nc
II S because they don't use their fls.s'
but reach for knife or club or =
gun, or something, or come up DehlHu
a man and wallOp him on the back OF
the head With a brick. anyway YOU
never hear of any OF them sending over
man to meet the champion OF inc
world, do yOu2
No. gentlemen there's no race in the
world today that can get the best ol
the AnElo-SaNOns I'm a rough-ahd-tuih-
bic, atch-as-catch-can or go-aS-S ou-
proved few times What happened 70
the Spaniards? What happened to the
Frenchy How many times has itaiy ptcli
trimmed What did the Japs do 10 huS,
STA? Go back into history and YOU y
get the answer. All those countries anu
races can send their people over merry,
though, and this big country VIII looh
them over and say;
right now, but in about two genera
tiOns I'll be able 10 make something worm
while out of you. Go on and get Ill
gested."
The championship is always going to
be right here. Any time you snoulu
wake up and find a new champion flght-
ct of the world. you don't need 10 ash
where he lives. The address on the Dot
torn of his visiting card will be just
~ S. A." and it will be so for a good
many hundred years to come.
I'm not dislOyai TO the country that
started me out with pair of good hands
Just telling you the truth. It's rae.
and will be a fact America bound 10
furnish the fighting men tor the WORTH
Why, any chap that reads the papers rs
building the big bridges all over the
world? Americans. Who are digging tae
canal? Americans. We're furnishing wy
big fighting men for everyWnere' anu
they're making good too. 1t isn't only
pugilism. It's everything. But you can
tuclI this away in you hatband and ten
il TO your friends who hold up then
hands and whine about pugllism Deihs
III takes an almighty good ail-tired
man 20 stand up in ring with nothlus
but his hands and give and take slAty
minutes of bruising and bathing anu az
lad with weak lungs or hecuc nus.
and spectacles is going TO stand the gan
for minute. 81. .nS
nair of hands YOU can bet he's not LOSING
much time sitting up nights IN the DacN
room of a gin mill or smoking cigarettes,
If he is he won I be handy with thoSt
fists very long. Fighters arc 10 be tolnu
e,,ervYhere. and they don't all get INTO
the ring. One of the fastest little nen'
and the gamest, too. that ever saw
isn't in the game now. He the treas
urer of one of the finest, olggest anu
hest theatres in this country, ana ne :
as nice and quiet little gentleman as
You ever saw. I'd like to bet that any
thing he goes after he'll land. Ihat
getting away from the subject. though
America is going to breed champions rlsnt
along. and the championship OF the WoTIu
lis going 10 stay right here. 1t can DE
any other way. There's lot OF soou
material right here now. and IL com
ing along fast. Now that JeIfrles mas re
tired, or says he has, 1t looks as II theI-
was going TO be another flght pretty
soon and for the championship, too,
think I've got the best right 10 the title
lust at this minute. now that Jim mas
passed il up. and if young Mr.. Hart OF
louisville thinks he can put crlnlP
into yours truly, he's welcome 10 lh-
chance He's nice ambitious young
fellow and I'm going TO do what l can
for him. I've lived pretty clean, ana
for "A 43-year-old. I claim TO be pretty
speedy yet and able TO go a bit.
Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.