Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-07
N Carly SCOTS
At STORY Of
QUITTING
BY Ed. w. Smith.

NdIlS, WnltS champion,
didn't Try to quit in the
match with Jack Heinen in South
Bend Ind, year ago last No
Vember. At least we have the big
Boys word for it direct.
When McCarty was in the city
the other day he took occasion to
inquire into the oft-repeated yarn
about that fight. which was the
only one, ne ever had in this vi
cinity and the sixth that he had
had in his brief career. He was
badly disturbed about it and when
asked about the facts he gave them
freely.
1T is not true that ! tried to quit
or wanted Sig Hart or any of my
handlers 10 cut the gloves off my
hands at the end of the second
round, the big fellow said.
Knew Little About Boxing.
When | went into that contest |
was as green rs grass, knowing
little or nothing of the tricks of
training and next to nothing about
the general scheme of fighting in
the ring. Naturally | was anxious
to make good because the papers
had been printing some nice
things about me.
"Heinen was not regarded az
champion or even a near cham
pion, so with all the natural ad-
vantages in my favor l had no fear
Of him. But | was nervous and
anxious, because l knew some great
things We're expected of me.
While Heinen wasn't able to
connect solidly on me during the
first two rounds, / almost fought
myself out during the six minutes,
and the nervous tension was be
ginning to tell on me, especially as
he was clever enough to keep me
missing. Anybody who ever boxed
much knows how it drags a man
down to be missing continually.
Merely Admitted Being Tired.
when | got back to my corner
at the end of the second round Hart
asked me how / was feeling. | told
him | was mighty tired. That's all
| said, and l would swear to it. l
couldn't have sa, much more, be-
cause l was entirely out of wind
at the time.
Yet Hart took il as an evidence
of a desire to stop. and with an
oath threatened TO break a water
bottle over my head if | didn't go
in and win in the next round. l
didn't reply to this at all, but |
guess from what afterward hap
pened that Heinen was as badly
off as l was. l caught him right
in that third round, and he went
down and out.
There would have been no use
Of my denying my condition to
Hart at the close of that second
round. 1 was tired and admitted it.
But ! didn't want to quit, because |
hadn't been hurt at all.
Causes Him to Quit Hart.
"Now, that's the whole truth of
that fight, every word of it, a. | re-
member it. When | got to think
ing about it afteTward the threats
to break the bottle over my head
were entirely unwarranted, and /
then and there decided to have
nothing more to do with Hart.
Later l did quit him when he sent
a man to Springfield, Mo, to col
,ect his share of the end of a purse,
and this fellow abused me, as Billy
Mccartney. who was present but
who was not connected with me at
the time, will tell you.
Il liked Hart up to that time
but he was too raw with a raw
boxer, and I couldn't stand such
treatment. He simply lost a cham
pion by his action; that's all"
Others Have Been Accused.
Stories of boxers quitting and
wanting to quit, especially boxers
that afterward attained high places
in their classes, bob up every now
and then The latest comes from
Springfield. Mo, and tells of how
disgracefully Jess Willard acted in
two bouts there. Jess says there is
an inside story to that that he
won't tell.
Jack Johnson was accused of
quitting to Klondike in a bout at
the old Lyceum theater in this
city, but always said that a hungry
man is liable to do most anything,
and that he was hungry that night
At any rate, as McCarty says,
Luther's subsequent battles have
not displayed that there is any
ochre in the big Nebraska mans