El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-31
Tricks In Every
Trade But Ours
Ideas of Natural Born Fighter Good Physique and
Fighting Heart Useless Unless Experience With
Better Boxers Sticks; Labor Day Will Decide
Whether or Not Gundy Is Natural Born Battler.


/ Is there any such thing as a "natura
l born fighter" II by that term o.
meant a man born with fighting III
stinct and who absorbs the methods
used by those he meets in combat a.
fast as he meets them. the answer
must be that there are natural borT
fighters. II, by the term Is mean
men who can fight merely because
nature has made them strong OF limi
and Of cOmbatiYe nature, the answer
must be that there is no such a thing
as a natural born fighter. No suct
men as the latter exist.
In other words n magnificent
physique, coupled with desire to
fight, by no means makes boxer.
A man has no reason 60 believe he
may develop into a good boxer
because he has a sound body. He
must also possess the quality OF
picking up speedily boxing tactics,
rs well as having n desire to bait
tie. and n strong body. Every
man who is capable of learning
in time how others fight and has
the determination OF learning the
game cannot be successful unless
he gets IL quickly.
Accomplished boxing is big game.
There is ten years Of study TO get il
at a moderate rate for the ordinary
man. But the man who does not alb
sorb It faster than that cannot be-
come a marked success in the ring
because by the time he has learned
the game the best working period Of
his body is past Successful boxing
means that the best physical condI-
tiOn must be combined with proper
knowledge Of the game at the right
age. With any Of the cogs out Of
place a successful boxer is well nigh
impossible.
HanlOn Learned.
To illustrate by Fort Bliss exa1l-
pies: About a year ago Eddie Han
Ion. base hospital boxer, met Kid
Broad at a Bliss boxing show. Broad
was Eddie's superior in every way
and HanlOn never had a show. But
this is the thing that proved HanloH
a natural born fighter The writer
saw his next three battles and in
each case he whipped his opponents
by exactly the same tactics that
Broad used on him. When Hanlon
went against something better than
he had. he took it for his own, the
great essential Of natural born
boxer.
Gave Man.. Born Fighter.
On the other hand, take the case Of
Cave Man" Carlson Carlson earned
a reputation at the fort Of going into
an opponent and beating him down
by the strength with which nature
endowed him, with scarcely any con-
sideration as 70 how IL might best be
used. He used up strength and wind
in bouts. with no system Of conserva-
ton whatever, and for several bouts
was successful He was called q
natural horn fighter"
Then came Charlie Short. Slim
Charlie went on the inside OF the
Caver's right rainbow and plunkcd
Carlson on the chin with alternate
left and right uppercuts and hooks.
Carlson laughed at first. but seven
rounds took the iron out OF his Jaw
and out he went
1t Didn't stick.
The writer saw Carlson box four
times afterwards in comeback at
tempts and never once did he ever
use any Of the stuff which Charlie
Short used to whip him. He learned
nothing from what Charlie used on
him. Afterwards, Johnnie Simpson,
for u years welterWeight champion
Of the United States army from At
lantic TO Pacific and from Superior
to the Gulf, and one of the best box