El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-24


4 = inch collar and No Z hat,
said a gentleman sitting beside me a
few nights ago when thick-imoed
Moha wauoped the Westchestef
Several nights later the same tlght
bug held an adjacent seat "Aen ~
bons, light lean ana slneWy, nam
mered jeff Smith all over the rms
Il take it all back" he said, leaning
over nv wav What a fighter needs
is a pair Of fast, thin legs ana LOA5
reach and a brain That IS al
Which shows just how hard II Is %
done" out the material thaJ can DC
turned into a first class fighting man
-He has the ideal head for a fight
err says the spectators, When Al a.
ger is IN the rl7B- IL nappehS 80 80 -
can fight. Bu- he might look just as
much a fighting nan as he IS ana ho-
be able TO whip q second class weltsf-
weight. Looks don't go lar IN the
Paradoxes Of the Game.
An ideal fighter should be strongly
and symmetricaly built from meek 70
heels Perhaps his development aoOuI
the shoulders should be a niue eNds
eerated He should have strong less
and arms and a broad, muscular PACK,
big forearm and strong uSts- re
should have world OF speed, STAN
ina unlimited and the strength OF
a weight rlrOWer. the courage o. d
hear The agEressiveneSS of a DullQOSs
me 1afience Of Job. And ne might have
all of these things ana be whipped by
man of half his size ma
strongly and symmetrlcally DulLL+
Well. where did that description lit BOO
Fftzsimmons, the greatest fighter nor
barring any weight that the ring ~
known within the memory OF AEtA5
MANI Bob haC the thinnest legs thdt
ever carried 4 champion His hips We're
narrow. his body was thin RS shOul-
ders looked big only because they were
big in proportion TO the rest OF -
physique He was tOpheavy, ana II
mat ne didn't have unusually large
arms or necE. His arni.- we're Ne.S
long and siuewy- They were uNe
boy's arms compared to those OF = 81
tries. Johnson or Lausf-rd. yet ritz
sinn-ons was the hardest hitter OF me
10. by far He snraddled AROUND the
riI o on those spidery. knock Leeu
legs waved his arms. ana sums M
punches that knocked out Sharkey,
Rubin and scores of other men olsseE
and stronger than himself
a.PreIim'' Fighters Lock Good.
The fighting face dOesn lndlcate
ANYTHING. Some Of the poorest prellm-
mary fighters i'm the ring have neau-
pieces that would do for japanese war
masks. And every now and then some
soft featured smiling, skinny little
novice, with the hidden IlShuuS spark
in his makeup, comes along ana DeaIS
them To a pulp.
You never can tell.
As for the ideal fighting face-what
is il like Think over few OF tne
famous fighters There was tlJHSllh-
mons with high, straight nose q
head as bald as an egg-a small head
set on a moderately thin neck-and q
retrea ting chin PalZers chln, mona )
chin. AIcGOvern's chtn-lots of oJner
..Ifns bt,-.uE-Eg 20 SJuu 1l5lteIS-
stick OUT like the ram of a batueshlp-
But Bat Nelson hasn't proUrudsnS
chin Jimmy BIRTHS jaw did not stick
cut Young CCrbeIts was 'rm1I
rounded chin. Most of them nave VIDE
laws The wide Jaw, and not the jaw
that is thrust out aggresStvely, IS the
fighting Jaw. because. being well an
gIed il can resist the strain OF hard
punch better than a long, narrow jaw
Tommy Murphy is often said to have
.'yt-eak K chin" because his sticks out but
his law is wide as well as long. and
anything but weak JeItrles mad a
wonderful Jaw for taking punches, be
cause It was wide and heavy. Johnson
has a very wide jaw 50 nave lang
ford WalcOtt and almost all OF the ne
gro fighters Still, YOU can't tell by
! The Jaw Frank GOtch, the wrestler,
had an unusually wide. heavy Jaw.
Frank tried to be fighter de failed
because the slightest tap on the chin
knocked him groggy, and good mid
dIeWeight like Gibbons could nave
knocked him out at any time without
The Pug Nose.
Then there is the fighting nose
| NcGovern was supposed to have the
ideal nOse-an up-tilted pug unhl
that mug noses should be considered an
indication of fighting ability, when, as
a matter of fact they are merely HANDY
TO have i'm the ring because they nat
ten out like rubber when they re nix
In the list of first class fighters we can
find an sorts of noses. Jeffries has a
very small nose. Johnson and Lang
ford have the fiGt, wide noses OF their
rate. Blu. how about the 0eak t4aI
projects out in front Of Matt Wells .
rs regular Roman caricature Of
a Roman nose. Yet Wells is one of the
best fighters of his weight in the
worId-perhaps the best. We haven
/ seen him extended yet jim SteWaIe
Z is a GOOD fighting man. and Jim has
Z high straight nose, and perfect creek
profile.
IS for eyes-WilHe Lewis has an eye
as sharp as an eagles. He looks IKE