Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-28
SCHIEBERL HAS
VARIED CAREER
Local Pug Has Never Lost Bat
lie Since He Entered Fight
ing Ring.
WAS BLIND AT ONE TIME
-. Closest 70 Defeat When Fighting
Another Local 7oy-Remembers
His Mother.

What WOulo you say II SoAA4S JIG toiu
- he knew a boxer who never lost
decision in IS fights?
While not much on long distance
,,oxuostication. We are willing 70
-, YOU would kindly but firmly in.
form your friend to hang piece of
crepe on his nose.
Well. We are going 10 tell you we
know a fighter that has won IS con-
sseutive battles and has never even
been held 10 a draw. Now, don't jump
70 some other section OF this page,
hit lust follow up the column a little
f1rthes
Allow Us 10 Introduce 20 you pea.
uuts- (CIihord) Schieberl OF Rock Is
Iaud. III. Clifford is never a name for
a fighter, hence IL IS Peanuts" and
that Is the name By which he is known
70 the entire sporting pOpulace of the
country. Peanuts" Is IN demand
sverywhere. for. Just as Bat Nelson
said Of him. The delivers the goods"
Has Not Been Whipped.
peanuts has yet TO meet defeat
OF dynamic energy and seemingly
tireless. fight fans have watched Schie-
bsri walk through the crop OF feathers
with the ease OF a born champion. He
battles all the time, fighting for all
there IS in It. His beady blue eyes
stand out OF his cameo features and
bushy hal like two ink spots on a
fed OF white.
peanuts" IS Just 20 years
Old He Is OF German-Swedish ex-
traction. German on the fathers
side and Swedish on the mothers.
Both his parents are living in Rock
Island. The name Peanuts grew up
With HIM and Clifford pardon u.s.
does not know when or how r. really
originated. unless Il was an excep-
tional fondness for the peanut diet
At an early age he exhibited puEi- !
lstie proclivities. or prOpensities. by I
licking everything IN the neighbor- /
hood Not that peanuts" was bully I
or anything Ike that. He was too .
small TO be going around with a chip .
On his shoulder, but anything near .
his weight was always sweetmeat /.
for him and he was never licked.
IN 1900 at the age OF s his folks .
departed from Kewanee and moved .
70 Rock Island. where Peanuts grad
uated from the grarpmer school He
was engaged in selling papers when
attending school and after gradua-
ton developed into a regular mes
ssngsr boy and then into the black
smith trade. This he gave up shortly
after and took up boxing as a profess
sion
Was Blind at 7. h
One thing not generally known
about Schieberl is that he was stone
blind for an entire year between the
age Of and I. When at school some
husky youngster at play accidentally
dropped Peanuts head on a curb
stone. The fall affected his optic
nerve and he went blind for IL
months. but under careful attention
Of physician he was able to regain :
MS sight in a year.
Having taken 70 boxing, lured on {
y the big purses being extended to
nose In the profession, he began to
look about for matches. In his first I
oattie. which occurred July >.
III, he had for an opponent a boxer 1
y the name OF Yellow Chicken, whd /
happened to be a negro. Throughout /
ne battle the Yellow Chicken butted I
Peanuts" continually. and then pea. b
'nts promptly got real mad and ?
'fsooed the negro's ivory dome with
rs good right arm and pulled It into
Us head with all his strength. The
esult was surprising. 10 say the least,
OF u Knocked out the charcoal for all p
! ten minutes. The referee allowed v
ae knockout, due TO the Chicks foul n
actics. n
sehieberl started boxing at los &
o1nds and as he gradually grew II
eaE1er he was forced 70 take on
pponets OF any class. This resulted II
some freak bouts. On one oc- Il
-sion he was matched 20 box Kid 81
upper in a. ten round battle. This q
snt was 20 occur on Jan. Il. 1913. Just G.
siore the scrap Clipper funked and. &
'ener than disappOint the manage =
ant Schieberl allowed them TO sub
it1e Earl Henderson. a welterweight
lie scraD that resulted Was the A