Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-19
INsTALLMENT EIGHTEEN.

To President Roosevelt the main tenance of perfect health was a re- ligious duty. He could not restrain himself from going in for the hardest of sports. He was many times injured and in one of his White House box Ing bouts, lost the sight of an eye from a blow He kept this accident profound. secret from. his closest friends until years later. His admira- tion for boxers was not confined to amateurs. Fitzsmmons and Sullivan were devoted to hin.-The Editor.
 On Counting Days and Wrestling
 White House, Feb. "A, 1905. DARLING KERMIT:
 ~ puzzled a good deal over your marks. l am inclined to think that one explanation is that you have thought so much of home as to pre- vent your really putting your whole strength into your studies. It is most natural that you should count the days before coming home, and write as you do that it will only be 33 days, only 2e days, only 19 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 all your head effort into your work; and that if you are able to, it would be far better to think just as little as pos sible about coming home and resolute- ly set yourself to putting your best thought into your work. It is an if' mstration of the old adage about putting your hand to the blow and then looking back. In after life, of course. it is always possible that at some time you may have to go away for a year or two from home to do some piece of work. If during that whole time you only thought day after day of how soon you would get home think you would find it diff ficult to do your best work; and may be this feeling may be partly respon- sible for the trouble with the les sons at school.
 Wednesday, Washingtons borthday, I went to Philadelphia and made . speech at the University of Pennsyl- vania. took lunch with the Philadel- phia City Troop and came home the same afternoon with less fatigue than most of my trips cost me; for l was able to dodge the awful evening banquet and the night on the train which taken together drive me nearly melancholy mad. Since Sunday we have not been able to ride. still box with Grant, who has now becoms the champion middleweight wrestler of the United States. Yesterday afternoon we had Professor Yamash- ita up here to wrestle with Grant. It was very interesting, but of course jiu jitsu and our wrestling are so far apart that it is difficult to make any comparison between them. Wrest- ling is simply a sport with rules all most as conventional as those of ten his, while jiu jitsu is really meant for practice in killing or disabling our adversary. In consequence, Grant did not know what to do except to put Yamashita on his back, and Ya- mashita was perfectly content to be on his back. Inside of a minute Va mashita had choked Grant, and in- side of two minutes more he got an elbow hold on him that would have enabled him to break his arm; so that there is no question but that he could have put Grant out So far this made it evident that the jiu jitsu man could handle the ordinary wrestler. But Grant, in the actual wrestling and throwing was about as good as the Japanese, and he was so much stronger that he evidently hurt and wore out the Japanese. With little practice in the art I am sure that one of our big wrestlers or boxers, simply because of his great superior strength would be able to kill any of those Japanese, who, though very good men for their inches and pounds, are al- together too small to hold their own against big, powerful quick men who are we'll trained.
 Spring in Washington.
 White House, March 20, 1905. DEAR KERMIT:
 Poor John Hay has been pretty sick. He is going away to try to pick up his health by a sea voyage and rest. I earnestly hope he sue ceeds, not only because of my great personal fondness for him, but be- cause from the standpoint of the na- ton it would be very difficult to re- place him. Every Sunday on my way nome from church I have been ac- customed to stop in and see him. The conversation with him was all ways delightful and during these Sun day morning talks we often decided important questions of public policy.