Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-21
VETERAN SCOTS
At KID" BOXER
Of NOWADAYS
By Left Hook.

TACK EVERHARDT, once known
as lightweight champion Of
y the South and in his day about
as tough a bit of fighting machin-
cry az the American ring ever
knew, bobbed up in Chicago the
other day Jack found that many
OF the men who were prominent in
the game along about the time he
was doing his best stunts in the
ring were no longer on earth, but
he dug up enough Of the old-timers
to have q merry time OF it.
Jack is a fairly prosperous fellow
these days. He has been in South
Africa for the past two years and
did well there. It may surprise the
American fight fans to know that
IT wasn't so very long ago that Jack
won the mlddleweight champion
ship OF that country, showing that
even a veteran many times is bet
ter than bunch of green hands.
Brings Out Good Point.
Here Is pretty good point that
Jack brought out one day in the
course of a conversation on the
modern fighting man of the light
weight class.
In these days We learn that the
youngster OF the game is the whole
thing and after boxer gets to be
% or so people are beginning to
figure that ne is getting passe,'
Jack said.
Why, I've seen in several papers
the absolute statements that AID
Wolgast Is all through as a fight
ing man q thought inspired by his
defeat at he hands Of Willie
Richie
And Wolgast is only little over
"a years old right now. Surely you
can't put down a statement like
that as being anything but rot.
Maybe I'm too old fashioned in my
Ideas of things now. but I bark
back to the old days when the class
was fighting in was fairly bris
thing with the toughest Of the tough
ones Then man was considered
only a kid at 20 and wasn't fit to be
classified az the real goods until
after he had reached An age Of close
TO SO.
No Kid Fighters Then.
we never had any kid fighters
in the old days 1t is my opinion
that the greatest lightweight that
ever lived, past. present or any
other old time was the Williams
burg boy, Jack McAulffe. And let
me tell YOU that Jack didn't really
get 'ipe untU he was Is years old
And Just look how he has lasted,
Why, he's sdu able to box we'll and
looks the picture of health.
THAT Old farmer boy or Illinois
Ri,N Myer one Of the greatest Of
them an when they left him in his
crude state but who fell when they
taught him 90 be clever. was an
other Who didn't tipen until he was
rs. The same may be said OF
Frank Erne, han whom there was
no greater boxer in the world.
And take Jack O'Brieu. the New
York lightweight. and George Nc
Fadden auo an the rest OF that
gang of heroes WOW. but that was
tough bunch 90 go up against.
But there wasn't what YOU would
call a kid In the entire lot Joe
Cans too didn't get good until NE
was past %. poor old fellow.
Jack O'keefe a Marvel.
In those days the youngest
lightweight in the business was
Jack OKeefe. of Chicago He was
only eighteen when he boxed Jim
my Britt in that wonderful contest
out West lie was q wonder. too
age considered Perhaps il was
California, where they grow things
so fast, that set the fashion Of
rushing kids into the ring and into
desperate matches early In their
careers.
AT any rate, they have killed OF
many a promising boy by trying to
make champions ~ them before
they have half attained Their
growth. just alike the word or su
Observing old-tmer for that too
And who win say that Jack isn't