The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-09
SPARRING
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/ SPARRING 'Ht P"7 '.,'''N
! PNRTNEH zou for those Who
/ TESTIMONY. haven't as get con
tracted the ferry
6cai habit Willie "Mush" Campbell
OF Detroit usually manages TO appear
somehow in the ostensibly hostile
role. Perhaps that is one OF the guar
antees insisted on by the limbs Of the
law who are always on hand To see
10 il that the statutes against prize
fighting are being conscientiously al
htred 10. BE that as il may, Willie
has boxed them all. from Bat Nelson
10 Jack Johnson and that is going
some.
Willie was waiting the other after
noon for his turn with big Jack He
took occasion TO comment on the fact
that. in spite OF the fact that his
mimic combat was with champion
OF the world. 1t wasn't really such "a
/ fierce stunt, after all
{ old Bob Fitzsimmons was the Lad
! that made trouble for the sparrins
partners. said Willie. He made
every sparring bout real fight and
/ il was up TO me. when was on the
road with him. to take mighty good
Z /
was particularly the case when Bob
had been drinking on those nights
( he'd wade into me as If Was Jertries
arr We're fighting FOR the champion
/ ship OF the world
Before I'd been on The road weeS
! with Bob. ! had learned TO get my
dinner after the show, not before II.
II he thought I'd eaten a hearty meal
before The evening performance, he'd
Go nothing in our fOur-round bout
hut pug away al my stomach Most
people concede that Bob could belt
body blow with any OF EN-. guess
even Jim Corbett would admit that
and the solar plexus punch that Boz
handed him out at Carson city didn't
land on "A stomach full OF corn beef
anC cabbage. either II Bob could
make me put my lunch between the
+ third and fourth rounds he was as
uckled as a Md with his first pair OF
pants
But Johnson is gentleman and
/ has some consideration for a sparr.ns
partner He's awfully big and strong.
OF course and be handles me about
as he peases but he isn't a bit ugly
about it,"
As Willie finished. the referee in.
/ trcduCed him He left the wings,
made his bow 10 The liberal hand ev-
I tended from the gallery where his
I friends were ont In force and was
soon engaged in the daily combat.
I After the FIRST rafting exchange the
bis black caught both OF Willie %
hands under his armpits, gave little
wrench and let go Willie sailed
through paper scenery portal,
caught his balance aud rushed again.
From high up in the gallery came a
voice that bore message Of irony
KNOCK him out. 'Mush. il said.
This from a newspaper friend In
Chicago who seems a bit biased in his
views toward The Tigers and the Ma
tional league:
~ sore on your rotten ball club
They have made a minor league ont
of the American Comisky is alive 70
The situation and will furnish a team
OF Kids this wear that viii RIM away
with YOUR pcnuant and then Trim the
winners ia The jew league too
And BOW if they viii only secure
2 pack of tycuas 40 laugh al Presi.
don't Fosers jokes. the Philadelphia
Nationals menagerie VIII De complete
I'm other words. Mr. Camniz and
Mr. uIeyfJs- had chat iu which The
latter made some pointed references Co.
. events THAT occurred during the
/ world series
Unless here We're really cxtenuat
ing circumstance MOI greatly 90 the
credit 81 SIR Murphy his employer.
it IS hard t0 see Why baseball should
further stomach John Klius. man
who signed iongterm coutrac. aul
tieE-pefttSrd 10 work ar 70
John T.. Sullivan may not appre,af.
some of the methods of iho present
day fighters bu' none 81 them has
apviuiri ON John !. in reck-cs man
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