The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-01

show their cleverness in evading pun
ishment when they should be giving IL
The woods are full Of moving picture
boxers who cannot hit hard enough Ia
upset a water pitcher. They know all
! about the block and the sidesten and
the light left jab, but when IL comes
to doing real damage they are moi
present; they remain ham-and-eRp
nghters because they never whip any
body So much for cleverness as the
chief asset.
Others incline to the WALTON. Every
man with IL brogan or a hat and D
III collar thinks that a fighter should
| nave the big neck. So? Well there
nave been many terrific hitters who
never got anywhere.
rake, for instance, that Mexican lad
Herrera. In the days when the Iovine
Aurelio was wasp waisted aba youth.
ful enough to do 122 without hurrinn
| himself, he packed a walton whIcI
would have done credit to a heavy.
weight. OF all the hard-hIttina IittIe
men that the ring has produced. Arm
~ that the brown boy from the reh-
achapt country carried off the bacon,
Any time Herrera got that right over
to the right spot, the other fellows
seconds had to climb lnto the ring and
carry away the old meat. He could
hit man so hard that his head would
would be the first thing to strike the
floor, and even I'm his decline he MIN
ped Young Corbett with short high
cross, and Bills nose was the first
thing to strike the canvas. 1t took a
thumper to drop Young Corbett with
one short poke
Herrera might have been rated as
worlds champion eight years ago, when
he fought McGovern In San Francisco.
He nailed Terry just once on the chin
and the Terrible One was cross eyed
for the rest OF the round. If Herrera
had been game enough to walk in and
finish the job, McGovern would have
taken the count, for one more punch
was all he needed.
Bat Nelson says that Herrera hit
him SO hard that he forgot everything
for about five rounds. Herrera, gifted
as he was with the ten minute sleep
tablet" never amounted to anything
but good trial horse. for he lacked
the heart. Any time an opponent could
slap Aurelio on the bridge Of the nose.
the Mexican would begin to back up.
He would fight like a tiger until stung.
and that was the end OF him.
I So the punch lis not the only thing.
1t Is the gameness which counts, aft
err all, and that is something which
has to be born in man. We heard, al
infrequent intervals OF men who, al.
though faint hearted by nature, had
schooled themselves into taking the
gaff.
| This degree Of moral courage In CON-
mendable, but 1t lis not exactly like
the old bulldog grit which is born In q
real fighter. Many a man can be game
when he sees chance to win, but II
takes a stout heart to carry q man out
OF his corner round after round In o
losing fight.
II may surprise a lot OF people ia
know that Jimmy Britt, with ali his
posing and all his exasperatfng little
mannerisms, was one Of the gamesi
| fighters that ever drew on a glove
Gene Van Court, the trainer of many
champions, remembers that when Britt
the unknown kid, came to fight his
first amateur battles, he threw away
d pair Of cr1tches at the door, and
walked into the Olympic club on two
feet SO badly blistered that, had his
condition been known, he would mo-
have been allowed to contest.
| Britt had been reducing his weight
and the road work. to which he was
unaccustomed, nearly ruined his feet
but I'M his crippled condition he fought
his way through the amateur tourney
and won a championship.
He showed that gameness agar
when Nelson beat him at Colna. Brit
was beaten and discouraged at the END
| of the sixth round. He had tried his
newly discovered right hand punch or
| Nelson, and Nelson had fought him
back until Britt's knees knocked to.
| gether.
| The rest of tho way Britt went on
his nerve, and when he was SO badl,
hurt and so tired that he could nj
longer see, he staggered about the rims
throwing wild lawmakers In the hops
Of landing one and turning the tide.
His exhibition Of pure grit won hin
d crowd which had always been hostile
To him, for Britt WIS never 4 CALLERS
favorite In his own town. have seer
| him knocked down and badly hurt. bu