The evening world., 1910-12-19
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COLUMN
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"Une. Round Hogan's Decisive
Victory Over Johnny Frayne
Makes Him Dangerous Men,
Der Of the Lightweight Class.

4 NEW shadow has beer aung
~ athwart the lightweight horizon.
"one-round" Hogan Is looming
threateningly in the oflng. and 1t be-
hooves the champions and would.be
champions to attend strictly TO their
training.
"One round" II has an omlnous
sound. This Hogan lad must be some
thing OF n fighter. lie earned that title
In San Francisco by knocking out all
opponents in a punch. He is Just COM
Ing out among the big little men OF the
ring. and hts decisive victory over
Johnny Frayne Saturday proves taat
he has real class. Frayne Is a very
good lightweight. lie was at his best
saturday. which he was not when IN
the East a couple OF years ago. Then
Frayne was sick and unable 10 show
how he could fight. But this time he
had been away In the mountains for n
long time. had trained faithfully and
was In tho finest shape possible. He
wa sure OF winning. but "One-round"
Hogan. the newcomer. beat hum abso-
lutely helpless In twenty rounds, and
came within an eyelash OF finishing aim.
Frayne Is ono OF tho toughest and
gamest boys in the world, ana that
alone enabled him to stick to the last
bell
Hogan Is a pretty good lighting name.
i pever knew n Hogan who wouldn't
fight at The drop Of a hat and keep
On fighting as long there was any
one In sight TO swing n fist at.
Hogan ought to have no trouble In
keeping busy. How would "One-
Round Hogan VS.. Knockout Brown
look on the cards? And then Lew Powell.
who once earned a decision over Fraync
and who has o some good nghting
In California AZ well as here In the
East. would draw q fortune with the
new wonder out on the Coast. Moran
or Murphy or wolgast would do equally
well, n probably they will hear from
the Frisco promoters before long.
By the way. Hogan was to have
fought Battling Nelson. but Moran had
the first chance. That was tough luck
for Hogan. The way he foored Frayne
at different stages OF the fight suggests
that his wallop would have done as
much to Nelson as Moran's did. There
was n funny thing about the proposed
Hpgau-Nelson match. Tho San Fran
Chico Supervisors objected to II on the
ground that Hogan was too hard a hit
ter. and II couldn't be a boxing match
when ne met such a slugger as the
battling Dan
p OOKTNG over an old book on hsti-
cuffs. printed about a hundred
- years ago, ! ran across the fol-
lowing interesting note:
Friday. Aug. q, lS7.
"~Broughton's rules. Article I. That
49, - liz aW., nsfaRn
down., or seize him BY 80 ham. the
brooches, or any part below the waist:
a man on his knees &c be reckoned
down"
SO they were civilized oven in those
old days. Selling an opponent by the
ham. or the breeches." IL stu cons d.
cred hardly a g%enteei proceeding In the
ring.
MOTHER OF the old-timers is go
~ ing 10 box Thursday night. and
the old-t!me sports will turn out
TO see him, even though his fighting
days passed many years ago. Young
Critic OF Australia was the wonder OF
the ring once. Dissipation put him
down n out long before the present
crop OF lightweights were out OF short
pants. Critics wonderful skill was al
In his eye and his perfect judgment
lie never danced around a ring, but
could stand stlll and block or avoit
every blow aimed at HIM. lie was q
magician at that. CRITICS. favor.t'
stunt was to make a wage that III
could stand on a handkerchief ant
keep from being hit during a three
minute round. Another trick OF hi
was catching flies. lie was AWAY
willing TO bet a dollar bill that he soul,
catch a fly at the frs, attempt. Tn,
ny would be buZzlng around Critic,
head when he swiftly shot out his han,
and seized 1t between his fingers. III
picked up many a dollar that way.
Critic was always out for the dollar
A dollar looked as big TO him as n cen
fury note. He never learned how 1
count. His managers used to get n biI
bundle OF one-dollar bills to hand hin
after a fight. and he asked no ques
tions. II offered n choice between
hundred dollars In one-dollar bills an
a thousand dollars In twenties he woul
choose the thicker wld OF dollar bin
and rush out to spend 81. For all tina
he a a high opinion OF his foXines
and was always ready TO Turn a trick.
Once a young fellow went 20 the gym
naslum where Critic was training an
offered him twenty-five dollars 20 ",ho'
him how 70 box" Critic took the ylctil
into the gymnasium, al alone, c~ollect-
the fee. and Immediately slipped over
knockout punch. Without waiting
dress he rushed 10 the nearest saloO
10 spend the mOnc". Il showed h!m.
he said, throwing the bills on the bar.
OF course Critic can't hght now, Il
has been a wreck for years, has bee
In asylums and prisons and has i've
9 hard life In the CHICAGO Sums. b
didn't have Il IN him, like some o.heI
who left the ring, TO turn 10 a trade
q profession. lie may still DE able
show . trace OF the o!d maryellol
skill. bur II he were put uH 20 light. q
exhibition wcll1 be as p!ti'ul as N
made by poor little George Dixon wh'
he met Tommy Murphy.
Reynolds Defeats Hollis.
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