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

IDEA. but think i've hit It right. any
way it's a good bet and worth little
playing.
never heard Of a fighter yet that
came from any one Of those other
countries-the Italys, the Germanys
and the Russias. you know-that ever
amounted to anything with his hands.
Maybe IT'S because they don't use their
fists. but reach for a knife or club
or a gun. or something. OF come up be-
hind a man and wallop him on the
back Of the head with a brick. Any
way, you never hear Of any Of them
sending over a man to meet the cham
pion Of the world. do you?
No. gentlemen. there's no race in the
world to-day that can get the best Of
the Anglo-Saxons In a rough-and-tnm-
BILE, catch-as-catch-can or go as you
please scrap. and think that's been
proved a few times. What happened
TO the Spaniards? What happened to
the French? How many times has
Italy been trimmed? What did the
Japs do to Russia? Go back into his
tory and you'll get the answer All
those countries and races can send
their people over here. though. and
this big country will look them over
and say:
I'm! Well. you don't look up TO
much right now, but in about two gen.
erations I'll be able to make some
thing worth while out Of you Go on
and get digested."
The championship is always going
10 be right here Any time you should
wake mp and find a new champion
fighter OF the world. you don't need to
ask where he lives. The address on
the bottom Of his visiting card will be
Just ~. S. A.. and II will be so for
a good many hundred years to come.
I'm not dislOyal TO the country that
started me out with pair OF good
hands and a knapsack full Of hopes
but I'm Just telling you the truth. It's
fact and will be a fact Americas
bound to furnish the fighting men for
the world. Why. any chap that reads
the papers can see that for himself
Who are building the big bridges all
over the world? Americans. Who are
digging the canal? Americans We're
furnishing the big fighting men for
everywhere. and they're making good.
too. II isn't only pugilism. It's every |
thing. But you can tuck this away in |
your hat band and tell II to your
friends who hold up their hands and |
whine about pugillsm being brutal:
1T takes an almighty good ALFRED |
man 10 stand up In a ring with moth
Ing but his hands and give and take
60 minutes Of bruislng and battling. |
and no lad with weak lungs or a hec-
tic flush and spectacles is going TO
stand the gaff for a minute"
Any time you see lad with a good
pair Of hands you can bet he's not
losing much time sitting up nights in
the back room Of a gin mill or smOk-
ing cigarettes II he is he won't be
handy with those fists very long
Fighters are TO be found everywhere.
and they don't all get into the ring
One Of the fastest little men, and the
gamest. too. that | ever saw isn't in
he game now. He's the treasurer Of
)ne Of the finest, biggest and best
heaters In this country. and he's as
nice and quiet a little gentleman as
you ever saw. I'd like TO bet that any
hing he goes after he'll land. That's
getting away from the subject. though.
America is going 10 breed champions
light along. and the championship OF
he world is going TO stay right here.
[ can't be any other way. There's a
OF Of good material right here now.
md It's coming along fast. Now that
Iefirles has retired. or says he has. II
ooks as II there was going 10 be an /
,ther fight pretty soon, and for the
too. think I've got
he best right 10 the title Just at this
minute. now that Jim has passed II
Ip. and II young Mr.. Hart Of Louisville
kinks he can put a crimp into yours
ruly. he's welcome to the chance
les a nice ambitious young fellow
nd I'm going to do what can for
i'm. I've lived pretty clean. and for
43-year-old. I claim TO be pretty
peedy yet and able to go a bit.