Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10
KAUFMAN SHOULD
HAVE QUIT RING
BEFORE DEFEAT
Same Story of Believing
Himself GAS Good AS
Ever" Many Examples
of Same Doctrine.
BY W. W. Naushton.

San Francisco, Nov. 9.-Bcys am
through with the ring for all time.
When a novice can stand me on my
head in two rounds it's time to quit.
So spoke AL. Kaufman to his hand
lers in his dressing room after he had
been so quickly disposed OF by White
Hope Luther McCarty
The pity Of it was that Kaufman
was not aware Of the pugilisitic wreck
he had become when he agreed to
meet the big Nebraskan. 1t looks, in
deed, as though a suspicion that he
has retrograded never crossed the
mind of the ring man whose biggest
asset is personal courage. To con-
slider ones self las good as ever
seems part of the vanity of human
nature as expressed in fighters.
In Kaufman's case it is said that the
fellows who boxed with him in train
ing camp were not long In discover
ing that AL had nothing left, but 1t
is a brave sparring partner who VIII
inform principal he Is "all in.'
And so AL went into the ring with
McCarty and so the spectators wit
messed one of the saddest sights OF the
Oueensberry game, that, of stout
hearted fellow whose fighting talents
had deserted him, being mauled at
will by a mere recruit.
This Is no reflection on McCarty's
ability. He may be able to treat 9TH
ers just as he treated Kaufman. He
has the whole world before him, in o
pugilistc sense and will have ample
opportunity to show his true worth
The fact remains that in defeating
Kaufman he defeated a man who had
become a shell-one who appeared to
have forgotten even the rudimentary
tactics Of defense.
Grown Old in Service.
As already stated. it was sad
sight, that is for the members Of the
old guard OF fight patrons, and Il
turned thoughts to similar experiences
in other contests. So far as Kauf-
man Is concerned sympathy h not
born of the fact that he has grown
old in service. He Is prematurely
aged through having endured more II
health than falls to the lot of thu
average man. Sickness did for hin
what years Of gruelling ring work die
for others In his line. 1t slackenet
his sinews and Slapped his vitality AM
left him nothing but his fighting spirit
and possibly the knowledge. that h,
had to fight to gain a little something
of the world goods.
And If his is a piteous case wha
about others that can be mentioned
It is a notorious fact about pugilisn
that very few men develop at the ex
pense Of new men. When the CT
1.-THE King Is Dead; Long Live tn
tru ic
that the new king Is lusty youn
fellow and the deposed monarch
veteran who should have been Twin
on his accommodations instead of max
ing maudlin ringside speeches abou
having tried once too often. Such l
the history of championship event
from first to last, but the most de
plorable instances OF youth triumph
ing over age inrthe roped arena hav
not been seen in. bouts where title
were at stake.
It's one of the evils Of pugilism tina
men sometimes keep fighting long al
ter their heydey has departed. Til
reason is easy to fnd. The none
they made in their prime has slippe
through their fingers and its a cas-
of needs must"
Case Of Fitzsimmons
Take Fitzsimmons, for instanc
Years after he should have been lal
away he tackled Philadelphia JAG
O'Rrien in San Francisco. The pc,
Cornishman was such shadow tn,
he collapsed in his corner betwee
rounds.
Years after that he faced Bill Lar
In Australia. One Of the. most d.
pressing photographs the writer eve
gazed upon, showed the old lion, Fit,
simmons stretched on the floor. Will
the referee counted the seconds ar
Lang. man who has since been a,