Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-12-04

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sr-kid Broad Would Have Been Do.
lighted to Be . Circus Clown. and
Terry McGovern to Be Ball Player.
does not POSSESS II " also ambition
which IL just desire to get something
that n little out of reach There have
been Il lot Of fighting men whose pri-
vate aud personnl ambitions were little
known to the general public.
| There WAS Bob ritzsimmons. for In.
stance. Bob had the skinniest legR IN
captivity. with one exception Jim Cor
l1tt's were skinner. although that was
great point for discussion bet ween
them. Besides the legs. Rob had IN.
other distinguishing trait-One by
which you could hive detected bis
presence IN the dark Rob was pleased
to describe II as a tenor voice
Thousands Of men would have given
half their lives to POSSESS II quarter Of
his ability and his fame But Bob
didn't care much about fighting as u
fame Gctter He wanted to be known
MS that beautiful tenor. MIR. Fitzsim.
mons
BOb's one other ambition was to have
nice thick ,egs He used to look crit.
ically at JcF's undrrrnning and sniff
and say that JetTS legs were too heavy.
but he diln's really think So Down
deep in his St'arf he admired those
poStlike limbs A few months ago he
boastfuIly satf that his son BOb's
thighs were thin krr than Ieff's."
Kid Rroad's nsyrIe hasn't hppn seen
In print tor mnny years But ne was
4 famous fighter In mis- time. rush
ing. t.irin. human bulldog. When NJ
fought he twisted hiS face into an ex-
preston as fierce IA THAT Of a Japanese
war rna>k But db you know what his
CseateSt ambition wnSt He wanted to
be- Il funny circus clown and make
jokes He never went INFO a circus.
bur he still practices thu jokes.
Jshnny Coulon. VINO recently lost the
bnn.an weight title to Kid Villa ,s.
wosid like chance to- fight again and
wiD II back But that has become
merriv secondary ambition.
Cr.,ion'~ naIr mas been routed and
has Eis',l rom the tnp'Of his head ieav.
Ing shat place ut thought nearly aS
sriu~r.l and polished nS- II biiiilrri bali
Ills present ambition H. ~ grow an
other head IT hair n great thi'k mop
like 10 vio,tni>t lie d: prefer that to
mi ,fvN.r TINS Nm SfA
niinseH
And Rat Nelson He's IN ambitious
fellow He's fun of that fighting stuff.
Hht tats Is re.;l rdrd merely az n step
ping Ssonr tn something else Nelson
ts,ss sta 4. ambitions Ht thinks he has
the mskin. of II great monOIogtst.
Why" said Nelson one time. when
come out In my little dress suit and
s,api that funny stun KuOk Ell
right o5 their chairs"
LIE also has designs upon the reiu-
nsDns Of numerous we'll known at'-
theas He's writing books aud experts
to make MIR Shakespeare look ike y
sh.ce
Terry McGovern was. the greatest
Iitthr fighter Of his time-greater than
any We have now. He won champion
sh,p> as easily AZ Christy Mathswson
wiiAs ~ game Of checkers. He mad all
the fame In the world Every " here
he went people shook hands with him
and told him bow proud they were to
ur~t him-"Proud to meet you. Ter
ry.~ Just like that Aud what did Nj
s;oypru have under his capf
Why. inst wild desire to be regn-
ar professional ball player The ball
players looked ut Terry with pOpeyed
admiration. and he looked, upon each
snd every ball player rs the most won
frrsnl and admirable thing Oh ehrth.
N1iuvern could make SlDWW In al
evening. He would have been willing
10 trade everything ne knew about
,ightiug for enough hail playing Ski:i
m he allowed to sit on the Giants
bench M a subhelder
Remember Stanley KetcheA: Poor
Ketchel was II lighting marvel. but 0is
ambition wasn't In the ring. He want
ed to be known as IA wild. daredevil
cow puncher He carried guns. wore
high heeled boots with spurs ana
spoke the picturesque language Or the
pains-as II used to be spoken
AID If he could have Known bow
his end would come he would have
been ticklad plumb silly AT the Idea or
dying with his boots on" In regular
dime novel western style.