Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-01-08
IT'S THE MAN WITH
THE PUNCH
HE. SAYS JAMES CoRBETT, WINS
FIGHT IN RING OR
FINANCE.

Chicago, Jan. SIN a signed ar
tic'o In the Examiner former Heavy
weight Champion James ]. Corbet
has this TO say about the man with
the punch:
When all the "dopesters" have
finished out just how and exactly
why Joe Cans knocked Kid Herman
out. and when Cans gets through tel
ling how he did II, and Herman ex-
plains how he thinks It was done all
the explanations may be condensed
into one little sentence:
The man with the Iunch won.
It's the same story the world over
the same in everything else as Il
Is In prizehghting.
The man with the punch is the man
that wins.
How? Just how Cans won from
Herman. Cans had the punch. He had
II when he started into train for the
night with Herman. He knew all the
time that he had II. During all the
fight he held Il In reserve.
When finally in the length round .
the moment came-the moment TIM,
he knew must come and was waiting
ror-he turned loose the punch.
No matter where you meet him
In the prize ring or in business
It's the men with the punch that are
the winners and the men who haven Z
II go out for the cout.
Did you read how Cans said he
won. Listen.
Il tented and his guard came
down, Just as had planned Il should.
] saw my chance and the left being
IN position / brought It up with all
the force / could put into II and IL
landed fair and square. That blow
was the hardest 1 ever struck"
Herman thinks this about this
punch:
Il never dreamed that n man of
his inches could hit as hard as he
does. His punch is like a mules
kick"
Thats the whole story He saw
his opportunity when Herman drop
ped his guard to protect his stomach
and drove in the punch with all the
steam he had.
Sounds easy, doesn't e.?
Herman's whole fault lay in under
estimating the mans ability to hit.
To my way OF thinking the state
ments OF Cans and Herman explain
about all the successes and failures
there are.
Failures are the fellows who didn't
have the punch and who didn't know
that the other fellow had it-it,s
the same thing in the end when time
is called.
The reason 30 many Americans are
successful is because they've got n
punch that can't be equaIed.
Look at f. H. Hartman. He's
one OF the fellows I'm thinging about.
Ever since I got into business
which Is like going into prlzefightlng.
only worse-he's been developing his
punch. It's pretty nearly irreslsti-
BILE now.
He knew his power-just what n
punch no has. He studies his op-
ponent He sees his opportunity or
makes his his opportunity. It de
pends upon his adversary.
Then, when he has the situation
sized up, he let's drive. There's the
time he mixed ub with stuyvesant
Fish over the Illinois Central presi-
dency In the end Harriman's the
man that's on his feet when the refe-
rec counts the ten.
Then, there's Rockefeller. and env
number Of those fellows down in
Wall street; Morgan and lot OF
them. Haven't they got the punch7
There are a lot OF people in the
country that have got in the way OF
their punches who will testify that
they've got the punch.
There's one great trouble with
those fellows, though They know
they've got the punch and they al
ways hit rs hard as they can, and
everybody knows they do.
They're like Cans a great deal. but
they're more like Jenries. They don't
know exactly their own strength. and
generally when they strike out now
some fellow goes down and Que and
stays there.