The evening times., 1911-04-21
new FIGHTER
FROM HUNGARY
First Of His Race-Became q
Prize Fighter By
Accident

Old Erin has contributed her true
uient sons to istiana; the scion Of a
thousand banana peddlers has flared
his glove in the face Of an opponent;
and the lad whose ancestors basked
In the sunshine of the holy land has
landed the punch that prostrated his
victim. Scotland has contributed.
Holland has sent it's jocose ambassa-
dor, Herr Placke, into the realm Of
lf1sticuffs, but hero is a brand new
one-a champion from the provinces
Of Hungary. :,
Jendreck Janos, VINO does not
claim relationship to the celebrated
Hunyadi Janos, is now tarrying in
Philadelphia, and he is Hungary's
addition to the sport Of red blooded
mankind. Jay Jay. whose name has
been Anglicized into Jack Herrick,
has come out of Europe to compete
with western fighters: and he says
that championship honors are his due
II he but improves as he has in the
past.
Jack Herrick's chapter in the who's
who of boxing is story that will
thrill the usual follower Of the glow
cd game. The wide eyed, heavy
breathing fellow, who sits around the
roped arena and Justify yells for
knockout, will read this little story
with some pleasure and also disbe-
lief.
But hear the tale as Jay Jay tells
It, and unfolds the story. You do not
get 1t in broken English, for Jack
has been in this country Yong enough
to talk like chap from Broad street.
He doesn't even know the name of
the lockjawed town where he was
born. in francis Josefs empire, for
he left there when he was 4 years
old. We will not migrate with the
family into New York and Baltimore,
for we take up the thread at Kewa-
nee, in Illinois.
Halls From Kewanees
That's the town that produced Pap
Ike, and gave Tom Mcmahon to fist
lana. Also Jenreck Janos, which in
terpreted rightly means Herrick,
John. At the present writing Jack is
20 years old, weighs 100 pounds, and
stands ten inches above the five foot
mark.
When he got old enough to con-
tribute his tithe to the family ex-
chequer they sent him into a boiler
shop to earn his living. Now boiler
makers often quarrel, and a big gink
who weighed 100 pounds "chinned"
Jackie one day, and then threatened
to lick the daylights out of him.
Herrick opined he couldn't and
they flew at each other. Jack was
sticking around with the boiler
weight OF 105 pounds pounds, but like
a bantam rooster he went into the
thick Of the fray. The big fellow
knocked Herrick down twenty-seven
times by actual count, but Jack was
still up and taking more of it when
the time came to adjourn for regular
exercise swinging sledge hammer.
One of those wise guys who al
ways are psychologically on the spot
saw the impromptu battle. He ran
smokers at the Eagles, and had sew.
eral other ways Of getting a living
without doing any actual work. He
fmportuned Herrick to fight, telling
him that he would teach him how 70
box.
At the first smoker Herrick stack
ed against o. chap named Archie
Williams. There wasn't very much
to the argument. as Williams went
into the land Of untroubled dreams
In q minute. That promoter should
have been q matchmaker at one of
our Philadelphia clubs. He immedi.
ately told Janos that he would have
to fight Mr.. Williams again that
night, as the knockout was not reg
ular and according to schedule.
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