The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-10

Corbett had put the old giant into rage
before ever the fight began had. so to
speak, Put the brain drop on him"
Sullivan entered the ring, advanced TO
young Jim, offered to shake hands.
Hello. Kid" said he.
Corbett bethought himself in time.
in conversation. Sullivan approached,
roaring out Hello, Kid" again With
out turning Corbett held out con
descending hand. How are you, Johne"
said he between phrases Of his talk with
his friend and still without turning sui
livan stalked to his corner In rage, went
into the fight in rage and was knocked
out in the twenty-first round in a rage
In the language OF the vulgar, Jim had
got his goat" and that was half the bat
tie.
Knocked Ont fin second Fight.
Corbett himself was knocked out in his
second tight with Jefrries The story
goes that JefTries's trainer just before the
ight laid the palm of his hand on Cor
belts left side Just below the ribs, where
six years before Corbett had taken the
famous solar plexus blow from Fitzsim-
mons. the worst blow that had ever
struck him. rs this fixed up all right.
Jim2" asked the trainer. and the idea
that perhaps 1t was not fixed up ell right
took sudden hold of Corbett In the tenth
round Jeffries registered a solar plexus
blow. 1t had not more than q fve-inch
swing. 1t did not seem possible to the
observer, but the great bulk Of Corbett's
body sank to the ground like lead, He
has never stepped foot In the profess
sional ring from that day to this.
It would seem. then, that the psychot
Ogy of the prize ring offers more subtle
studies than the layman supposes. and
that there, as elsewhere, absolute con-
fidence is the master key to success. |
How many ages before the study OF
psychology was born did the heroes of
the hand-to-hand conflict OF sword and
spear know and practice the art OF auto
suggestion? The Dragging of the war
rioTs Of Homeric fame was that, II am
the invineible one; no man can conquer
me" repeated long enough and loud
enough. and the warrior believed il and
the battle was half won
hector battles with Ajax
Listen to the helmet-graced Hector as
he prepares TO do battle with Ajax in the
seventh book Of the ''Illad:"
Assay me rot like one
Young and immsrtial with great words as to an
Amazon dame
l have the habit Of all fights and know the bloody
OF every slaughter. we'll know the right hand
charge,
know he left, and every sway Of ny securefui
large.
think then with good right I may be confident
Ajax's nerve and his vocabulary re-
naming with him. he replies in kind and
they fight until sunset, when they part
with mutual esteem. each declaring in
classic Greek that neither has "the
Others goat
Listen to Beowulf. the first Anglo |
Saxon prizehghter on record. for he
fought hand 90 hand with anything that
came his way. from warriors TO dragons
and demons, any one that had a hoard
Of gold handy to wager on the outcome.
He begins by a proper sheer at mis- an
tagonist:
Lo. thou hast spoken. o my Lord Unferth.
Drunken with beer. hast said here OF yalor.
Boosted Of proves. Truly tell you that
In all battle, striving struggle
No man can equal. man excel me-
They were not modest souls. the heroes
of old; they knew too well that they did
not dare to be.
History is fun OF the tales of the men
who have lost their grip and gone under
because they have lost their nerve; be-
cause the sense Of defeat grips them:
because for some reason they have ceased
TO believe IN their destiny. We need look
no further than to the field Of Waterloo,
than to the setting star of Napoleon
NeUrasthenia, a disease that has UNI
doubtedly logged the steps of humanity
since history began, is still half under
stood and its causes half defined. It was
first completely described by DR.. Beard
in 1879. 1t Is still so nebulous a thing that
one OF the chief authorities DR.. Dana.
when asked to define its symptoms and
causes, declared There is no such thing"
Vat its havoc is apparent 70 US all. Men
women and children succumb to il. Pro-
duced now by an intolerable burden Of
work and anxiety. and now by the utter
lack of either to I'LL the hours OF the day:
now il Is the athlete that is its victim. |
now the frail girl now it is the serious
student, now the man of affairs: now
the frivolous and empty minded. There
seems 10 be one symptom common TO an |
its victims. the first symptom an over
whelming anxiety. depression and sense
of defeat
May not the moralist conclude that this |
first symptom must be attack and con-
quered while it is still under the control |
of the individual viii? Who shall saw
how far it is symptom and how far
cause? Who shall say that the first sug-
gestion Of defeat is not the ultimate cause |
OF the hnal overthrow? That the single |
phrase No man ever came back was |
not what brought the fighter Jeffries
to the arena last Monday the broken |
shell of his former self
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