Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-23
NAIUREPLAfED
OWEN MORAN AN
UNKIND TRICK
BY MARION 7. sALAzAR.

Il r
other peg to mark the passing Of an
/ old-timer This time il is Owen Nor
an OF England, who Is laying aside the
| boxing gloves after years OF service
within the ropes. Owen, so they tell
is engaged in . fight to a finish with
Kid tuberculosis, and, whether he
4 wins or loses, the ring will know him
10 more.
| Owen Moran was never a real
worlds champion. Mother Nature
never intended that he should be. She
made him little too large for the
featherweights and just q trifle too
! small to allow him to cope success
| fully with the lightweight kings. So
| Moran hattled with the leaders Of
| 10th classes. He took off weight for
Abe AtteIls. And he put 1t on for
the Ad Wolgasts and the Battling
Nelson's. ~ Ill
"BIime me-" the little English lad
would say, they don't make EN- too
small or too big for me. IN fight EN-
Iall."t r.. .-..g-..s.
| And promoters who did business
with Moran knew that he meant just
/ what he said.
I'm take or III give o couple Of
/ pounds" he would declare when a
prospective opponent displayed an In
clination to bubble over the question
OF weight; lets get together and
flight.
| People who knew the real Moran
are comparatively few. The many
i thousands who saw him perform in
the ring regarded him as peculiarly
nothing but fight.
Those who saw him on the street
remember him as q dapper little fell
low with an apparent love for dias
monds and good clothes aud a nat
uraI staggering walk that many a
fighter of less note sought to imitata
with no success.
But Moran's friends that is, those
with whom he associated In training
camps and at such times as he sought
recreation knew him for what he
/ was jolly little fellow with fund
of interesting "reminiscences and q
i perpetual yearning for practical jokes.
i MOran's sense of hnmor is exem-
i plified in the manner In which he La
/ beied his houses in England.
A saving little fellow by nature, Mo-
ran some years back, began invest.
i ing his money in real estate, Every
big contest he engaged In meant an
] other house for him hack home :
i One OF the first of the houses he &C.
CURED was labeled the Abe AttelL
the name being printed IN bold letters
over the doorway.
Another was labeled the Harlem
Tommy Murphy.
Then came the "Ad WoIgast, and
this house is one of the largest and
4 best that Moran owns, though the re-
cords show that his meeting with the
Aforesaid Wolgast proved most dis
astrous one.
The method OF naming his houses
to Moran's friends.
i Some Of them viii remember the oc-
\ easion three or four months back
when Moran and Tommy Murphy met
In the lobby of local hotel the morn
ing after the English lad had boxed
Joe AzeYedo in Oakland and lost on
q foul after making a miserable show
| ing.
1 well, old top remarked Murphy,
with whom Moran had been training
at Billy Shannon,s, Il suppose you'll
j buy another house in England and call
1t the Joe Azevedo.'"
"3ure!" retorted Moran. I'm going
j to buy a dog house and name II for
Azeyedo. The bloody guy bit me on
the shoulder" ~. a.
Poor old man." Murphy continued
to kid; you're all in"
Had the 4arIemite realized how
close he was coming to the truth he
would not, have said what he did.
But Murphy did not know Moran's
real condition. And for that matter
neither did Moran himself
| Yet there may have been suSpi.
right with him.
I'VE can't go on forever" he re.
marked, thoughtfully; we've got to
stop some time"
And then, lest his friends perceive
the moisture in his eyes, Owen in
dulged in a laugh that was more or
less forced.
Il don't know what was the matter
with me-" he said; Il should have
knocked the bloody guy stiff"
British Lad Tackled Big Stars Of
Each Class.
! None of the boxers OF recent years
met greater assortment OF opponents
| than Moran He was the one man to
completely knock out the durable
lightweight, Battling Nelson. He held
the clever featherweight, Abe AtteIl,
TO an even break, and whipped that
hard-hitting little bantam, frankie
| Neil
| The only men of anywhere near his
! Poundage whom Moran did not meet
| in Tho ring Wero thoSo no waS mt