The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-14
Mary Puss Have Plunged Through
the Ropes Merely BY Accident
During the Past Gen,
Grafton
NELSON WAS MACHINIsT
Jefries Commenced Only After Much
Persua.icn-Gans Was Clerk
in Fish Market When He
Was Infected

;u--eadered the lightweight champion
hin OF the world 10 Ad Molgast at
saa Francisco. after forty rounds OF
he most grusIling punishment eyer
Sithstood hy 8 boxer. entered tie ring
By the ne7est accident In the Vol
-aS battle Nelson weathe-ed 3 perfect
v.irlwind Of rights and lsfts, taking
terrific beating but he never faltezed-
He showed his ganeness and would
hare stood 10 the finish had the rel
cree allowed him TO DO So
The Dane vas always 8 tough boy,
a-d il was his ve-y taughness which I
frs. induced him TO take up lighting
As 3 business
Wnsa . yoaagste-, he was employed
il machine shop in & suburb OF Chi
cage AID vas in The habit OF putting
IN ten long hours day. He had many
accidents IL tie shop and many mar
rov escapes from death. but on the oe-
casinr OF his last injury he made up
his mind TO omit the JOB al the shop
ana loos for something less dan
gerous
A splinter or iron lodged in his
head. and a. he was lying in his cot
in the aospital he began to wonder
what ha would DO when ne recovered
To return to The shop you'd be dis
tasteful and he wanted something
more ambitious.
Concluded 70 FIGHT
Tie Dane didn't have much of an
education. 50 he oonciuded that the
only thing ne could do vas 10 become
fighter.
4 don't know just how he thought
SEIZED me-. explained Nelson after
ward. 1T Just came oyer ne told
myself that II I ever recovered would
90 INTO the ring. thought that being
hit On tie head with q piece Of iron
vas worse han being punched with a
glove. and that II could stand the
iron l could stand the punch. took
up the sport and have been at it ever
since
Many great lighters have entered
The ring in peculiar ways. Jeffries,
for instance. had great deal OF diff.
culty il hiding his gloves from his
father. and finally cane out boldly
and declared himself a boxer.
jim alvays liked lively tilt with
the gloves, and he used TO sneak of
:. behind the barn, where he and his
brother Jack would mix things up
JETS father objected SO strenuously
TO the boys boxing that they finally
:. consented to give it up and threw the
gloves away
Then one day Hank Griffin. the big
:, negro. came to town and the boys a
: the factory Induced JEFF to go out anc
humble the bully. IT was slashini
: good bout, lasting fifteen rounds, bu
J. Jefries came out the winner. 1t wa
shortly after that time that Jeffrie
= went to tie coast and began his ca
reer.
: Joe Cans, the clever boxer, who VOL
once from Battling Nelson, in a forty
two round engagement, was a clerk Il
a Baltimore fish market when he be
d came infected with the fight bug. H
q began BY entering battle royal i
T which four negroes would get in tn
!. ring and beat each other until only on
II was standing. Joe became the premie
lie fighter along these lines in the sout
Il and then branched out as boxer.
lg Abe Attel was reading a sportin
% page in San Francisco one day whe
y, he was attracted by a clever cartco
of well known boxer Abe though
that it might be a good business an
re decided that he would like to see h
picture in the paper Accordingly, /
lie butted into preliminary bout ar
le made good. He made thorough stuc
20 Of the game.
70 Jack O'Brien was brought up in IL
lg boxing game. Jack father fitted
d. the lott Of his barn into sort of
X gymnasium, and the boys of the neig
re borhood worked out there. Jack /
n came very proficient and it wasI
as long before most of the youngste
IT. in the neighborhood had felt the sti
nc of his knockout punches.
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ne Only three weeks are left in, t