El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-31
RingLardner Tells Of Going
To Prize Fight What He SaY.

) where our eyebrows leaves off and
our hair begins and both got promi-
nent noses and homely mouths and
the kind OF chins that is supposed 10
mean determination but as far as I
am CONSERVED il is just a tough place
70 shave and with him It's target
and our # come out OF the same Dbl
and left nothing in there Wei you
would maturity think that when per-
son looks SO much like you you would
pull for him to win but in this case
my sympathys was with Francis who
7 know persOnlv ever since the so
called willard Dempsey fight at To-
ldeO last July where We was fellow
experts. A few days before that mas
sacre ask Frank how he thought il
would come out and he said he
thought like the both OF them and /
believe he was IL right ANY way
they's something funny about Francis
namely that though he hasn't licked
nobody for 10 yrs. he has always got
the rest Of the journalists and other
bugs with him to say nothing about
the fashicnably drest society wOmens
The Next Event.
Wei silver tongue Joe announced
the pair OF them and Frank smiled his
blonde smile and Fred tried to and
the bird on my right asst me what
thought OF the bout and I said Fulton
VIII win easy because 1 don't want
him TO.
But Fulton hasn't no heart says
my friend. Watch Frank try and
get his goat
Well they certainly was a contrast
between Of thems behavior before
the gong ring Fred set there Just
stareing into spaces vile Frank stood
up and shadow boxed and shimmied
and smiled and pointed at his op-
ponent and laughed and then they
was asst to shake hands and Frank
jerked Frederick Z way acrost the
ring.
Finely they went 70 It and we can
pass up the lst. rds. witch was just
big strong birds trying to kin each
other and everybody thought they
would both. be successful but o. you
9Th I'd By work time Frank had be-
gan to wish ne had lived little
closer TO nature and you could hear
him saying 10 himself in a blonde
way Now or never"
The Manly Art MiEtreated-
Well he throWed the manly art Of
self defence TO the winds Of Heaven
and was willing to take 6 punches in
the jaw provided he could land ! TO
the same and finely with his left eve
looking like a operations he uncorked
a right swing to the chin that all but
rocked Freddy 20 sleep and the closest
OF the fashionably dresr society
wOmens yelled. Kill him. Frank" in
q well modulated voice like you hear
Prank tried his best but all the rest
OF his cartridges was blanks and IN
the mean vile somebody asst Fred |
what his favorite song was and he
said the bell so they played II for
him and he sunk in his chair TO listen /
and Frank went back to his corner
they was law in y. J. that I
limited bouts 10 4 rds-
Well the story OF the next and last /
( rds. can be told in a short para 4
graph (Cheers) namely that Fred /
landed $50 times and Frank landed /
twice with about as much strength /
left as the saloon people and finely 4
the bell ring at the end Of the sth ]
I'd. We all agreed that Fulton had 1
win on pts. but we knew better. I Of |
the birds ] happened to be with had I
saw the fight between Dempsey and 4
Fulton witch lasted some thing like ]
II seconds so I asst him how and the /
he'll il had lasted that long and he 4
said because 10 seconds Of IL was I
used by the referee counting Any
way the next hour and Il seconds Z
vas used by US trying to get New
irk's other taxicab to take US 10 the
rain and we all come back 10 town
iEreeing that we mad saw a great
bout between ! gut that can fight !
lut won't and another gut that can't !
light but certainly does
Ring ". Gardner.
Copyright. 1920. by the Bell Syndi-
ate. Inc.
Another Lardner article will mp
,ear in these columns n week from
oday.