The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-15

10 President Roosevelt the main.
lenaaee Of perfect health was fes
ieioas duty, He could not restrain
himSelk from going In for the hard
SO 81 sports, He vas many times
Injured and ID one Of his White House
boxing bouts, lost the sight OF an eye
from q blow. He kept this accident a
profound secret from his closest
friends until years later. His admit
ration fol BOXERS was not confined to
amateurs, 1'itEsimni6hs and Sullivan
were devoted TO hltn+HThe Editor.
on C0untihe Days and Wrestling.
WHITE HOUSE, Feb. "a, 1906.
Darling Kermit:
/ puzzled q good deal over your
marks. am inclined to think that
one thought so much OF home as to
prevent your really putting your
whole strength into your studies. 1t
Is most natural that you should count
the days before coming home, and
write a. you do that 1t will only be
sS5 days only 56 days, only 10 days,
etc. but at the same time it seems to
me that perhaps this means that YOU
do not really put all your heart and
AN your head effort into your work
and that II you are able to, 1t would
sbe far better to think just as little as
possible about coming home and reso-
slut6ly sol Yourself 10 putting your best
Thought into your work II Is an IL
ddstration of the old adage about put
ting your hand 10 the plo# and then
booking back. In after life, OF cOIlfse,
&c Is always possible that at some time
you may have to 60 away for d Year
3or two from home to do some piece
:of work. II during that whole time
you only thought day after day OF
sh6W seou you would get home ! think
you would find It difficult to do Your
best work; and maybe this feeling
may be partly responsible for the
trouble with the lessons at school.
wednesday, wasnlngton's birthday,
sE went 10 Philadelphia and made a
sspeech at the University of Penhsyl-
3yania, took lunch with the Philadel-
sphia City Troop and came home the
fame afternoon with less fatigue than
,most OF my trips cost me; for was
liable to dodge the awful evening BAN
Enuet and the night on the train which
taken together drive me nearly mel
tlnchoiy mad. Since Sunday We have
! not beon able to ride | still box with
| Grant, who has now become the Cham-
I blon middleweight wrestler OF tho
! limited States. Yesterday afternoon
I've had Professor YaMashita up here
I TO wretso with Grant 1t was very in
iLerettins, but of course jim iitsu and
! our wroY.ling are 80 far apart that 1t
sis difficult to make any comparison
sb6twecn them. Wrestling is simply q
sport with rules almost as convcn-
tional as those Of tennis. while jim
! jitsu is really meant for practice IN
killing or disabling onr adversary. In
consequence, Grant did not know what
To do except 10 Put Yamashita Oh his
back, and Tamashlta was perfectly
content to be on his back. Inside Of a
minute Yamashita had choked Grant.
] and inside of two minutes more he
got an elbow hold on him that would
nave enabled him 10 break his arm;
10 that there IS no question but that
t4ia could have put Grant out. So far
sIhis made 1t evident that the Jill iltsu
man could handle the ordinary wTest-
lSG rut Grant. in the actual wrestling
and throwing was about as good as'thF
Japanese, and he was so much
stronger that he evidently hurt and
wore out the Japanese. With little
practice in the art ap-sure that one
" our big wrestlers or boxers, amply
because OF his greatly superior
strength, would be ablo to kill any nf
chose japanese, who though very good