The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-03
CROWD ARENA TOMORROW
Every Healthy Breed of Man Will Offer
Homage to Two Great Giants of
PugiIiSm in the Greatest Bat
tie of Century.

pion TO drag in the name Of his pFogeni-
tor; he should hSve stood upon the rec
ord of his own accomplishments
Representing the rugged hand-to-hand.
catch-as-catch-can style of literature. we
have with US three OF the brightest stars
IN the 1rmament-Frank Gotch, William
MuldooH. and Farmer Burns Mr. Gotch
is master OF the Rudyard Kipling toe
hold, Mr. Muldoon is a patron OF nil
lionaIres. Farmer Burns is fifty-one years
old and has never been sick. Then among
the lighter weight fiterati We have Bat
ting Nelson. whose powers Of enter
tainment delighted thousands up to the
time he elaborated with Ad Wolgast
Space forbids me to mention all the
vast array Of talent that Is here pre-
pared by the magic of its pen TO trans
port the American reading public 10 the
ringside on the glorious Fourth when
Jeffriss or Johnson, as the case may be-
gets his. But in looking il over 1 am
seized with regret when ! think that the
sporting writers are so feebly represent
ed. lament at the absence of "Wallop-
ing Dean Howeils, OF New England. He
may not possess the literary style of a
Joe Choyinski or an Abe Attell. but he
has a certain following nevertheless.
His Diction Lacking.
And Battling Henry James. the Devon
shire Demon" Why did not some enter
prising editor commission him to write
the story of this fight? His diction is
stilted. perhaps. and lacking in the flu
ent ease and grace OF Philadelphia Jack
O'Brien, but he is entitled TO be heard.
1t is discouraging TO say the least for
us fagged-out authors who burn the mid
Mo afe In
effort 10 make wolf poison and thus
| forestan the landlord, when we realize
that we have missed the short cut to
| fame and glory. To the youthful as
pirant for literary honors recommend
road work and dumbbells instead OF
rhetoric and English, the doeskin glove
| in place Of the calfskin binding And
should the climb to Mount Parnassus
seem long and arduous. let him find COM
| fort in the meditation that even Tom
| Sharkey was once sailor.
| But l DO not wish 10 give the impress
| sion that Reno is purely a literary CEN
| ter Far from il. The sweet and gentle
art Of harmony is represented here The
realm Of music has sent-a representative
TO the fight in the person of the worlds
champion marathon piano player, who
boasts of having teased melody from
piano TOT SlAly-OAe CCtlSSCuhlFS hours
without leaving.
And in addition to these men Of prom
inence an army OF unknowns is rapidly
gathering. They come tripping forth
| from Pullmans. day coaches. and snek-
ers; they come tumbling down from Fat
topped box cars or creeping forth from
| between the trucks. their faces black
with dust, their bodies SCARED by the
print of brake beams.
Coming from Everywhere.
They are coming from England ard
Hawaii. from Australia and Alaska, in
special trains and side-door sleepers, but
| whether they chance TO be globe trotters
OF grandeeS, homebodies or hoboes. gen
! tlemen or grafters, they are ali red
blooded, full-fashioned men with the age
old primitive love of fighting in their
veins. There are no mollycoddles in Reno
this night
| The eve OF the greatest battle OF the
country finds this little frontier city pack
ed and damned by an eager, optimistic,
healthy breed of men who on Monday
VIII file out through the heat and glare
and dust TO a great implanted open-air
arena there TO offer homage on the altar
OF individual excellence. And should next
Monday prove that their country was IN
peril and in need of them 10 safeguard
her honor. these same men would 50
forth willingly, gayly. TO do her SER
vice even at the cost of blood.
1t was men like these and like their less
! fortunate brothers who viii follow the
| fight story as 1t comes flashing over the
wires who opened their veins at Shiloh
or went roaring down to death and glory
across the fields OF Gettysburg. These
are the men our forefatheTs bred in
| the wilderness. These are the men who
make nations. In Reno tonight there
are few weaklings.
Value to Fighters.
| Now that we have seen something OF
what this battle means to the American
man. let US look fer an instant az what
1t signifies TO the contestants am IN
formed that instead OF fighting for a
purse of s1ol.ooe, as previously announced.
there viii be offered at the ringside on
Monday bonus Of Sle.oc8 10 ee,h par
ticipaBt IN addition to the original SUM.
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