The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-08
stand Up and Take the Gar.

| tduLleS among the uSnter tellOWS u
this: They will stand up and take tn,
gaff more than the big men. hav,
seen hundreds of fights between al
sizes and manner of scrappers. Didn'
you ever notice that the little fellows
will batter and bang each other unit
their faces turn purple with pain. an,
they so out only after taking an inhu
man beating?
"A case in point was the recent Han
lon-Hyland fight. Hanlon. the modern
Sonpareil of the ring. was not him
self and he took an unmerciful lacins
He would not down. and was still
fighting back with his flickerin,
strength when the referee mercifull!
stopped the battle.
Now. didn't you frequently motto,
that in q heavyweight battle the hi,
fellows do not stand the amount O
punishment relatively that the littl,
fellows do? There is usually knock
out which results from couple o.
well-delivered blows, and the mans vi
tally is not strained
And l hardly think that the small
men are as mature or hardened as the
big fellows. Generally the little fel.
lows are Hike bantams-they will fight
until death, but they are not as hard
or as tough as the larger fowl of the
same variety, the game cock.
kid Lavigne killed Andy Bowen a,
New Orleans after a hurricane battle
In the black days Of German history
they had an instrument of torture they
called the Iron Maiden. 4 hug from
this cruel continuance often crunched
the very bones Of some unfortunate
fellow. but the body battering this
Kid Lavigne usually gave to an oppo-
nent was little less to be dreaded
than a caress from the horrible maid.
en- After rough and wearisome
battle at New Orleans. Bowen dropped
to the floor of the ring. He never re-
gained consciousness.
Relentless In the Ring.
Jimmy Barry. who I believe was the
greatest bantam the world has ever
known, has also killed fighter. The
lad was Coot, an English boxer Poor
Barry was relentless in the ring. but
tender hearted as a lady out of it.
That fight broke the lads heart and
he retired. 1t is not generally known,
but this Barry retired the indicated
champion of the world in his class.
He never fought another battle after
the Coot affair.
Jim Prendergast, welterweight,
was laid low by Kid Williams. an
other welterweight here. after hard
fight.
One fellow, whose death caused a
deep stir in pugilistic circles. was Jim
Franey. He was red haired, likable
fellow welterweight from Cincinnati.
He fought Frank Mcconnell here six
years ago, and such was the belaboring
that Mcconnell rained upon him that
he died
Knock Hole in Battleship.
somtimes wonder that Dick Haw-
kins did not destroy more than one
fighter. You know that Dial had a left
hand punch that would knock a hole
in battleship If it landed. Dial. how
ever. was none too scientific, and that
bone-crasher did not land on every
one. He did. however. land it on John
ny Miller, and this was the end of him.
Both were welterweights.
Chiefly johnson was' another lad
who ended his man in the ring. In a
fight with Joe Devlin he hurt the latter
so badly that he never recovered.
They were both bantamweight lads.
Il see the papers contain an account
Of a fatality up in Maine. Jack Nc
kenzie killed Terry Martin. Both of
them were welterweights.
The death of Harry Tenney at the
hands of frankie Neil is still fresh in
the minds of the fight fans. Neil gave
to Tenney terrific beating. and the
lad died in a bath house in San Fran
cisco the following day.
Il will have to recount the details
Of the Crow fatality. That is of too
recent occurrence, and you all know
about it.
You will notice in every instance
OF a ring fatality the men have been
lighter than the middle weight limit
If you analyze the record of the unfor-
tunate fighter you will also learn that
none Of them are scientific and their
chief asset lay in the fact that they
could stand powerful amount Of
punishment"
After delivering this system of this
spasm the Oracle kindled rope and
sailed forth into the night, his dis
appearing figure followed by the ad-
miring eyes of his late audience
Washington Times.
Every little while the pugilistic fire
bell rings out the alarm that some new
wonder is about to set the fistic world
afire. Those whose ears are sensitive
to the loud noises that herald the COM
ing of prospective successor to the
heavyweight title, rush out into the
open. expecting to see the newly start
ed hre spread out and consume all the
mediocre timber now growing in the
heavyweight forest.
But thus far in every instance where
an unknown has been touted as q real
live blaze" the bomb finally explodes
and the interested sport throws up his
| hands in disgust and mutters the ex-
pressive epithet, False alarm"
The men who are instrumental in
boosting these would-be ringsters Tor,
better. "ringers") do not seem to real
ize that pugilism differs from no other
vocation as regards the achieving of
| success.
| Top-notchers are not made in a day.
| IL is absurd to imagine peanut VEN
| der trying to compete with j. Pierpont
Morgan as financier, or q circus sDie-
Ter trying to cop Chauncey Depew's
laurels as an after-dinner speaker. AS
Edward Box says in his little pamphlet
on the Key of Success:
| NO matter what line you may fol-
low. there is no short cut to success.
This applies equally to pugilism as it
does to piano playing or painting or
engineering.
There is no skipping over the rough
places and bounding lightly into the
Elysian fields Of prosperity. And the
more noise you make at the outset the