The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-06
FIGHTERS MUST
HAVE SCIENCE
Only Those Who Know How to
Protect Themselves Can
Stand Long Life in Ring.

Terry McGovern. strapped to a cot in
an insane ward. is lesson to fighters
who have studied only the offensive side
of their calling. The former champion
OF the world is still youngster. Five
years ago he ranked as the greatest
little man the game had ever known.
Today he is down and out.
1t is not the pace that kills which
pulled down Terry. His bad habits did
not begin until his decline had started.
Perhaps they helped to hasten the end.
They did not begin Il.
McGovern is n victim OF entertaining
ana lack of proper defense.
he came into the ring a full-hedge 1
champion. He underwent no appren-
.icesr ip. He had a punch that none
VouI1 Withstand. Others might be bet
let boxers. but the terrible punch of
Ierry for time discounted ali skill.
ana IL was not until he met Young Cor
pett youth who did not fear him,
VINO could box and had a wallop. that
Terry was dropped from his pedestal.
>. meantime. during four busy years.
ierry mad been fighting without a de-
tense. He had never learned how TO
cover up his body and protect the vital
lnlnK ne needed TO master the defen-
slve skill that enabled man to sur
Nlve long career and come out un-
harmed U'i
Take Blow to Give One.
Take blow to give one" was Ter
rvs motto. He acted on ii literally.
win lowered head, careless OF what
punches might be rammed into his
heart and stomach, he rushed i'm to an
inmate his men. He usually succeed
CD, nut in every one of these fights he
was hit often and hard.
Inns continued punishment had a
cumulative effect. Terry became a
nervous wreck. Moreover, he WAS AL
ways In training. and gave outraged
nature no chance TO rejuvenatc itself.
HIS finish is ,nly what must have been
expected under the circumstances.
An examination of the records will
snow that 1t is only the men who un-
derstand the art OF avoiding punish
ment who have Kept to the fore for a
long time.
Joe Cans was champion before Ter
~, and he is still one. He knows how
20 poX. Tommy Ryan and Jack O'Brien
Illustrate the same idea. After they
quit the boxing game they will still be
splendid specimens of manhood in fine
physical and mental trim.
I
The slap-bang boxer who reckons
nothing of taking a punch is a hero
with the public while il lasts, but he
pays the price.
There are many others who prove
this in addition to the case of poor
Terry.
few years ago the public delighted
to cheer Kid Carter, one of the bravest
men who ever pulled on a glove He
had q terrific punch. and those who saw
him give away weight to Gus Rubin
will never forget his matchless courage
in those unequal bouts.
Took Terrible Beatinqs.
He took terrible beatings from Peter
Maher. whom he knocked out: Marvin
Hart and Jack O'Brien. yet he never
fiinched. Finally. all of a sudden, he
collapsed and went back so pitiahly
that men who al one time would have
run from him for their lives were able
to knock him out. Had Carter first
learned how to ward off punishment he
might have been star today.
Tom Sharkey was as brave as any
of them. He could slug. but not box.
The awful lacing Jim Jeffries visited on
the sailor put him out Of the fighting
game. He came back once and took
rank with the smaller men. He was
game on Jack Munroe, but he was no
longer the Sharkey of old.
Kid Broad was a similar case i'm the
little Eddie Hanlon, a lion-hearted
youngster who was fighting champions
while in his teens. Eddie was a bull
dog, a forcer of the battling but he
lacked the art Of keeping away from
the blows. He has never gone nearly
as far as he should.
Buddy Ryan had a wallOp. but no
guard. and his light soon went out. Yet
Jimmy Gardner, welter, who can box
ought 60 be good for ten years.
George Gardeners clumsy style of
ruggCdnoss went FOR while, then the
effect of the pounGings began to tell,
until eventually he lost his colI,.a 90 and