El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-18
WHITE IS HAPPY
DESPITE WELSH
His Recovery of Health and
Accumulation of Money
Furnishes the Reason.
BY CHARLIE WHITE.
Stil and Forever Camping on the Trail
Of Freddie Welsh


Please, reader, don't think this is a
squawk because have been given the
cold shoulder by Freddie Welsh in nv
efforts 70 force him into a battle for
the lightweight title at Denver It
isn't I'm going to let my manager do
the squaWklng, and I'm going to attend
TO health and keeping in shape.
Ferhaps you might think that I am
branding myself unlucky for not being
matched with Welsh right now at Den
Yer m unIucky in this case. that's
true: but in everything else I'm the
luckiest chap on earth. Its Christmas
IN a week and I'm going to tell you
q story that should bring little cheer
. 10 the fellows who are afflicted as
was IN years gone by
According to all the medicine mans
dope, 1 should be dead right now and
my picture IN the family album should
be marked Gone but not forgotten."
Instead OF that Tm-well, read!
Follows His Example.
hen was kid knew another kid
VINO nao a JOB feeding Gordon press
ft $3.50 per week. That seemed like all
the money IN the world TO me. /
couldn't imagine how he managed TO
spend all of il each week. So I landed
a Job in the same shop as errand boy
and then kept my eyes on that Gordon
press battery. / earned $3.50 a week.
and the folks at home took it away
from me each Saturday night I was
so puny that I didn't resent it. but
figured that at least, when was max
ing Sc or SO I'd keep some for myself.
At last got my chance, and became
feeder. But all the time my health
was failing, and at last there came the
day when they sent me home as too
weak to run the press, and the doctor
was called 81. weighed SO pounds
and was as sturdy as a tOOthpick.
Got $3.50 for Fight.
50 started at gymnasium. doing
odd Jobs for the privilege Of exercising.
Exercising soon became a pleasure,
and soon ] learned little about box
ing Whenever the fighters who trained
there wanted a goat 10 take their hard
blows, they picked on me I was
knocked down not less than p 600
times during this preliminary training.
I never dreamed OF being a fighter my
self. Little by little, however. gained
II rinE knowledge. until seven. years
ago I decided to take a chance against
a fellow named Frank Decker I got
$3.50 for the fight and knocked Decker
out in two rounds.
That was the beginning of a new
era. Although I weighed less than 100
pounds, Bill O'COnnen. the veteran
trainer who ran the gymnasium where
I made Headquarters, worked patiently
with me. and fight after fight went
into my cherished record book I
gained in weight and health, worked
hard on deep breathing, took long
walks and runs in the early morning.
was careful regarding my diet, and
now I'm weighing 1913 pounds, strong
as a young bull. and packing punch
that is generally labelled the best Of
any lightweight in the country
Now Makes $4,000 Year.
That's where the luck came in They
had me ticketed as dead. and lost my
Job feeding that Gordon press-Tny
precious $3.50 per week Job. In my de-
spair. tackled a new business without
knowing ii, and today that business is
paying me in the vicinity Of $4,000
per year I have considerable property,
a nice automobile. a nice home, am
strictly independent, and all because
was unlucky at the start
IT'S all a little lesson in perseverance.
Just Try it yourself. young chap. If you
are sickly and placed on the calendar !
as a candidate for the cemetery in the
next few years.
So 1 should worry about Freddie
Welsh. even If he never gives me a
chance to rock him te sleep and grab
that title OF his.