The evening world., 1911-12-01
Lewis Has Been a Good Money
Maker, but He Can't Last
Forever.

ssV " yILLIE LEWIS has been .
t7\N money maker for fourteen
years." said his manager sadly
the other night when Willie was whipped
BY Mike Gibbons. the 81. Paul welter-
weight.
Yes, Willie has been a bank roll and
. meal ticket through some tough days.
He has taken good care OF his family
with his fists. But. I suppose. no fighter
can last forever. The trouble Is with
Willie's hands. He hits too hard AMI
they break UP. He started them knock.
ang out all OF those English and Aus
fralian, French hcay weights over In
Paris. Willie certainly did have the
punch. The Frcnchmen couldn't under.
stand ". They thought he was a won.
der-and he was "A wonder when he was
In shape to fight. | used to think he
could knock out johnson with a punch
on the jaw"
wv ILLIE surely did a no punch.
w remember n night at
w Browns when he fought q e.
Eantic black man. The negro was a
laborer in the Hudson tunnel. He had
whipped everybody on his shift. rough
and tumble. n had an idea hat he
could clean up the earth and make q
mint of moaey. So he went to Bill
ds&ownis' to get a fight. He was sub
ett6nted for some one who was to night
L<wis. but who failed to show up. Willie
Aobked the big coon over and wasn't
very anxious to mlngle with HIM But
t,.last. assured that the black man
didn't know how to hold his hands W.
And that ha'A hA an sauO rnark In Ani4A
OF his size. Willie consented.
At the first rush, ths big negro alm0st
caught Lewis In . corner. And tor .
fui minute thereafter William was ~
wsry as a pcnnsd coyote He didn't let
the anxious smoke touch him eve with
the tip of his glove. When he saw that
the black Hercules was beginning to
feel puzzled by his boxing tricks
Willie picked up confidence Fsinting.
no drew the black In. wide open. and
then swung his right. Il va one u
tee hardest punches I ever sAw struck
Q welterweaght. L0wis fairly lifted
the tips Of his toes As he drove his
4dy behind the fist. The gaove caught
Q negro on the tip Of the chin. He
Nks lifted six inches from the floor.
Turning half way over In the air and
visiting at the same time. he struck the
1htt head first like q man diving into
flake. And he didn't get up or realize
vhat had struck him until Willie was
dessed and on his way to the street.
YER hear about the tine when
KID MCCOY got h. The KID
always had "A liking for a chance
t4slip In A punch unoificlally. He didn't
list upon doing his fighting FOR none
other scTappers. Now and then he
d3ppci lel5 or right on some aggressive
perty who didn't think Kid McCoy the
gnfRtest Fighter Ia the world, Just for
~. One night a college football star.
3d. throush with a season OF training.
voited Mc'Jy's old Broadway place.
lie football man and Mccoy had a few
We. and Mccoy, smiling that peculiar
e4.le OF his, politely invited the college
nnn 10 step TO a small rom psriltioned
OF from the main hall. where they could
tx thcir difference OF opinion over
qUe:ly. The !1gtpnt the door was CLOSED
b&pird them Mccoy began the argument
it&ls " way by planting a good hart
80 on the college mans eye Bu. thi,
fdptball player wasn't OF the ordinary
sXn lnstead Of going down and ouI
he caught his balance and. rushing a.
N 10y, t1cklcd him around the waist
Mccoy ,id1't know anything abou
taGkles. In Ellf a minute he was mucl
wker. The football man broke a mir
rf with Mccoy using him as u pile
d&Ner. Then he slammed him 10 IN
No., fell on him, gave him the knee
pikked him up and smashed down tn
petition with him. The patrons OF tn
ptce must have thought that a cyclon
ID struck a.. When the college foot
- player finished he deposited the vi
OF the floor, picked up his hat an
calmly went away from there. IN
mE'e fact hat he had a black eye dldn'
inltrfCre WITH M s~ltlsfactIon al all.