The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-05-04

AMERICA FURNISHES
WORLDS BEST BOXERS.

niue Dll sore sometimes Wnen tney
read about the standing of puglllsm
in this country and when they hear
that we are turning out the best article
in the line of boxers over here they
turn grumpy and want to know why
we take all the credit for having the
real goods.
Maybe 1t sounds queer for me to
talk about eve" like | do when / am
an Englishman by birth, but I'm an
American citizen and I'm for the coun-
try that gave me my real start and
made II possible for me to get
blamed sight better living than l could
corral anywhere else that | know Of
Besides, like the country, the people
and the way things are handled.
Here. when a man believes he deserves
anything he goes and gets It. and there
is no nonsense about IT, The question
as 20 whether ne deserves II or not is
outside and he can comfort himself
with the thought that he deserves any
thing he can get
What was going 70 say, though.
was that the United States has been
turning out champions for a good
many yedfs now, and It looks to me
as II II was going to 90 right along on
that basis. When say champions.
can enlarge that TO mean champions of
most everything you can think OF
But started out TO mean champion
boxers.
This country furnishes the best box
ers in the world. and It's going to go
right along that way. II can't help II
If It wanted to. To be sure, there's
mighty few countries that are deliv-
ering any goods of that class. but you
can't count that. | should say that
outside Of America, England and her
direct colonies, there's not a zeal
boxer coming from anywhere. / once
did hear OF a Chinaman who had an
idea that he could put up his hands,
but some one took a quick punch at
him once and he faded away into
somewhere. There used to be a Jap. !
too, but they're not built for the stand |
up-and-take-it game at all. I don't |
think we can afford to waste any time |
peeking over at japan through a tel
escope watching out for a carload Of |
pugilists; they're not coming over in |
any cargo lots. England as a fighter
producing country isn't in the same /
class now with this place. Whether |
q prlrr rrH rbof h. q Nr
climate breeds something slow don't
know. but it's here that the real fight
ing men come from. l don't believe
I'm throwing bouquets at myself when
say that I'm about the only cham
pion that ever came out Of England
and made good right along. And then
you've got to remember that was
bred in Australia. and that the coadi-
tiOns 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 of
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 a combination. Every one knows
that away back the Jew used to put
up a pretty stiff scrap. and he had the
noble Roman on the run a whole lot,
but the Jew sort of petered ont after
awhile. and as a pure stock fighter he
didn't amount to whole lot.
The Italian-I mean the old-timor-
used TO put up a rattllng fight. but he
got over his energy too. and he don't
cut any fee any more with his hands
The Irish are pretty good. but they
haven't the staying power that the
others have. and while they're all
there al 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, and he's better still when he's
born and brought up here and has
little good American in him. You
,an't whip him much. !
The Engllshman is a good fighter
'neyer mind the viOlets now. thanks.
IN walt), but he's a whole lot better
when ne comes over here and gets as I
simulated into the country. When he I
,ets that cross strain in him. you can't -
whip him unless you kill him The
Scotch makes hot boxer. but he's
low until you cross him with some
hing speedy Of the L. s. A.. and then s
le can go some. s
That's why the best fighters in the 4
world come out right here. It's like v
he bull terrier. The terrier will pick v
fight with anything that walks or
rawls. but ne can't last. The bulldog -
Ioesn't get in action quickly. but he !,
ticks when he's in and the cross Of /
he two can put up a racket that Is v
yorth going 10 see It's the west. 4
hough. that breeds the real fighting
nen in this country-that IS the
I don't suppose there's =
man on top Of the earth at this min =
te-or we'll say two years ago-.hat \
ould whip Jim Jeffrles went after n
i'm twice and couldn't do II, and I y
ever said that before about any man,
nd barring Jim. I won't say II about
ny man now. There's something in
hat western life that makes real men. "
nd they never know when they've got on
nough. OF course no man knows :
hen he's going to get trimmed, and
hen he does it's always by younger |
ian than himself. except in one or z
To cases.
Some Of the wise boys who study out Jc
le reasons why and because say that vii
ny nation will drift down the slope fr
fter awhile, just the same as a man BBrr
III towards the end Of his life, and i
ne of the quickest signs TO my mind m,
that when nation begins to stop su
ltting forth real fighters with their
ands, that nation is dropping down A.
ls rise on the far side. It's only an