The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-24
MAN WHO CAN LICK
PUG JACK JOHNSON
WARREN BARBOUR THE YOUNG
FIGHTING GIANT is SON OF A
MIlLiONAlRE-lS 1T.

Warren Barbour, aged twenty-five,
son of a millionaire, also amateur
heavyweight champion of the world,
VIII he fight the black man?
Opinions differ. Some people-so-
ciety folks-say no. Sporting men
say that Col. VIM. Barbour, the
multi-millionaire, thread manufactur-
er, is so proud of his strong, hard.
hitting boy that they wouldn't be
surprised to hear him say to War
/ rem
Go thou and smite this Philistine
hip and thigh"
This young giant has a trainer,
Jack Cooper. 1t is Jack who made
/ him a wonder Jack wouldn't say
right out in company that Warren
could lick Jack Johnson, but he told
me just how he'd get him ready for
the championship mill
'All the boy needs is experience" ="
said Cooper. I'D give him his ex-
perience and his training for a
match at the same time. I'd
have him take on the best profess
| sional fighters in the business in
knockout fights. two a month He
could pick the best, for he doesn't
need the purses and the other fight
ers could. make their own terms.
The hardest men in the business
should fight him, and | wouldn't
be afraid for him, either Then, af.
| Ter he'd got used to handling HIM
self in the professional ring, we'd
make the match with Johnson That
would be in about a year"
Young Barbour is giant and a
natural fighting machine. He stands
feet , 1-2 inches high in his bare
feet and weighs 2OS pounds in
fighting tlim He has a reach of
| 73 inches and a barrel of a chest
40 inches around inflated and Al
deflated
He is better physical specimen
from the physical culturist's stand
point than Johnson or Jeffries eth
er, for his weight is distributed. He
isn't topheavy like the colored man.
Stripped, he looks lean as a cougar
and his muscles lay flat on his huge
frame like ripping plates
He is 1.-THE and shifty as ca
on his feet, superb boxer, aggres-
sive in tactics, and just feeds on
punishment" as Cooper says. And
he has a punch in either hand as
short and hard as a compressed air
trip hammer.
He can hit as hard with a four
inch movement as he can at a foot"
said Cooper He has enormous,
quick strength in his wrists AMI
forearms.
Cooper runs a flesh-reducing plant
in West 47th street much frequented
by the jaded people of society He
had been putting various members
OF the Barbour family through the
courses of sprouts when young War.
rem Barbour, aged seventeen, then
weighing 235 pounds, went to Prince
ton and applied for a place on the |
football team.
The captain liked his looks. but
one trial convinced him the young
Titan wouldn't do He was soft
as putty and suffering from over
growth.
So his father took him from col.
lege and gave him a place in the !
office of the thread works, and his I.
mother put him into Jack Cooper's |
gymnasium. Cooper first took the
stomach off him" and then suggest
ed he take up boxing. One lesson
was enough.
He was a natural fighter" said
Cooper 1t was just nature for him /
to box. He was a good boxer at
the end of the first lesson"
He became what Cooper calls a
"cagey'' boXer-a man so shifty as
to be hard to touch, and full OF
tricks of his own. Soon he wanted .
to go after the amateur heavyweight
championship at Boston.
Several professional pugilists were
called in to help him with his train.
ing. One after another Of these |
gentry quit the job cold, after be-
ing made punching bags of by the
society giant. They said they would
rather fight regular matches for a
purse.
Jeffries boxed with him. and then
begged Barbour to join the training
camp in California. In all these
bouts the gallery of Cooper's gym
was filled with society folks cheer.
ing Barbour
Cooper took Barbour and a biz