The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-02-16
by w. G. Shepherd.

NEW YORK., Feb. 16.-YOu
can find out all about Knockout
Brown from a motherly, comfort
able little German woman, at 264
First avenue in the yeastiest part
of the East Side. Knockout lives
there, too. The little woman is
his mother. BY the way, the fam
lily name is Braun.
X. o. hadn't returned from Phil
adelphia after whipping the whey
out of AID Wolgast when l called.
Mrs. Braun was sitting near the
kitchen stove in the little third
floor tenement flat. This was the
woman into whose lap her son had
spilled more than $4,000, his
earnings in the ring, in less than
a year.
MY boys Adam and rVoltzie'
are good boys she said.
"Voltzie" is the mothers pet
name for her son, Valentine. VAL
entine is no other than the ia
nous Knockout himself.
at was my son Adam who be-
gan the boxing" the mother ex-
planned. HE is twenty-three and
Voltzie is twenty. Adam used to
go to the gymnasium in st.
Georges church and he taught
Voltzie to box.
'Then they went to the boys
club. Mr.. Hartman, a railroad
man who is dead, started the club.
Voltzie went to school. until he
was sixteen"
when did you hear about the
first fight?" l asked.
She looked cross, as IL she were
recalling something unpleasant.
1T was the Fourth of July two
years ago. That boy Voltzie was
thought he was shooting fire
Icrackers. But, in the morning,
he gave me 50. He said he won
it fighting. Ooh, l scolded that
boy. He begged me to take the
money, and we needed it, so
did.
after that, he kept right on
fighting"
Great Record.
She said this in a very matter
of-fact way. Mrs. Brown wasn't
excited about what her boy was
idoing in the prize ring along
about that time, but the sport
world was agog over him.
That fight of July 3, 1908, his
first, was a knockout. In two
rounds he dropped Kid Peters.
sporting writer's caught his name
as Brown, and Brown it has re-
manned. His fights came rapidly.
July he knocked out Young
Rooney, in two rounds. Four
days later he sent Charlie Young
over the sleep route. Four days
after that he made Johnny Falter
stop thinking in one round. Four
days later he knocked out Charlie
Meyers. Then, four days more
land he knocked out Kid Hogan.
Four days later he knocked out
Kid Higgins in three rounds, and
the next day knocked out Jack
Haines in one round. He scored
nine knockouts in 22 rounds in
July.
Every fight ended in the magic
initials TX. o." being put after
the little Dutch fighters name.
In August he fought eight
times for eight more TX. O.'s."
Seventeen knockOuts i'm II
fights, within 90 days, was a rec
ord that no fighter has ever be-
fore equaled. All of his oppOn-
tents were favorite preliminary
fighters, with futures before
them. In September in nine
fights, Brown gained eight more
knockouts, and won ON points
over Harry Engel.
When he knocked out Todo
Leonard at Binghamton, N. Y,
New Years eve, 1909, he fought
his 35th battle since July 3, and
had a record of 30 knockouts.
"Voltzie" was using a punch
that carried a sleep pill.
What does 'Voltzie' do with
his money!"
''To me he always gives it,
lsaid Mrs. Brown. II have it in
the bank. When he or his man.
lager need money they tell me
what it is for and / give it to
them.
X. o. Has Girl.
MY boy Adam doesn't fight
NOV. lie is trainer for 'VoltZie.
Come in the front room. / show
you 'Voltzie's' gloves"
There on the walls of the par
Tor were II pairs of five-ounce
gloves, the gloves 'Voltzie' had
put his first IL men to sleep with.
II cans stop him, now" ex-
planned Mrs. Braun. .sWhen /
think how Adam and .Voltzie'
might be saloon boys, or might
smoke and go TO dances, / know
lmy boys are good boys.
Il "Voltzie has a girl. Many girls
write to him. Achl" she waved her
hand, Il bet he could have SO
lgirls yet. But he likes only one,
land she is. good girl.
"Vcltzie Is good TO me. He