The Washington times., 1914-02-20

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all failed to help him. His sight was
SO badly deranged that it was feared
that he could never become a successful
workman of any kind. Then he tried
boxing and found the defect that he
had regarded as life handicap posi-
tive advantage to him.
Look your man in the eyes and
read what he intends to do" is ore
of the oldest precepts of orthodox
boxing and one that is almost miver-
sally practiced by fighting men. As
applied to Knockout Brown, it was
ru;nously bad advice. Nobody ever
figured what he intended to do by look
i ing him in the eyes; indeed, his eyes
were the worst place a man could look
who sought to predict his actions.
Other men feint laboriously with their
hands and bodies with studied effort to
deceive. Brown feinted without effort
with his eyes, through freak OF ma
ture.
In addition to his crossed eyes.
Brown had a style that was the Op-
posite to every tradition and custom
OF the ring. He stood with his right
hand and foot advanced instead of his
left, as is usual among boxers. He
nearly always came in with a rush
after q feint instead of falling back
step or two, as most boxers do. When
he had missed q punch he never hesi-
tated or waited to get his balance, but
kept right on punching, and punching
hard. Physically he had tough jaw
and a rugged body, and was possessed
of indomitable courage. These things
Helped, but it was the crossed eyes that
made him famous.
Brown never looked like fighting
man. He was slow and clumsy, and
had rot vestige OF conventional clev-
erress. Every time he fought all the
fight critics said he was in for 4 trina
ming, but each time he would .hunIp
the other fellow within an inch of his
life in his slow, methodical German
fashion. Then he would look for anoth-
er victim.
When he climbed into the ring with
Wolcast at the American A. G., in this
city. every one said ''Good-by, Brown.
Wolgast felt that way himself. As
they shook hands and stepped back he
smiled pityingly. Brown was still gaz-
ing absently at the referee. Poor
boob murmured WoIgast, AMI poised
his right hand low, setting himself for
the blow that was to ruin the whole
Brown family.
Then a stunning blow crashed against
the right side OF the champions chin.
Shaken and amazed, he reeled back
across the ring. Brown followed min
slowly, gazing in mild abstraction, now
at the ring posts, now at the crowd,
now at the referee, never at the man
he was fighting, but driving all the
while storm of accurate, forceful
blows against the face and body OF the
rceing champion.
The whole fight was a repetition OF
the first round. At the beginning OF
each period Wolgast would come up
with renewed confidence. Tnen his
eyes and attention would wander of
| following the gentle, melancholy, mis-
leading stare of the little cross-eyed
German ldu, WHO Nouiu VAIN up " hlhi
and proceed to beat him all around the
ring with methodical, absentminded
precision. At the end the fight was
Browns by wide margin.
If YOU are laboring under what you
consider an insuperable handicap IN
life's struggle, don't admit yourself
beaten before you start. In some way
it may be that your handicap may be
turned to an advantage Remember
Knockout Brown, the lad who was CON
sideTcd too crosseyed to become even
4 good day laborer. but by reason OF
his distorted vision beat 4 world ;
champion pugilist.
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