The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11

dizzily ducked under Carriers first
! blow into a saving Clinch. Six times
Mccoy was knocked down, but he
| fought grimly and had turned the
tide Of battle and had Carter reel
ing himself when the last bell rang
at the end of six rounds.
| Only few nights ago at Madi-
son Square Garden / saw fine bit
| OF courageous lighting when Joe
| Lynch (who was a good soldier in
France, by the way). weathered
heavy punishment by Midget Smith
when it looked sure Lynch must go
down and be counted out. And
Lynch not only lasted but came
through lighting so furiously all the
way that the judges gave him a
draw" for his courage, when he
was undoubtedly beaten.
Courage makes good football
player. baseball player. boxer. ten
mis- player, golfer 1t is the first
requirement in a good race horse.
\ front runner never lasts. It's
the horse that wears the Red Badge
of Courage that becomes a great
champion.
| Golfers Have IL.
1t may seem odd to put courage
| as the first requirement in a game
like golf. that entails no punishment
or create endurance. I've heard
| boxers say it's easy to be game
when you're not being hit on the
chin. Buth what quality was II that
made Hutchinson outplay his best
form when he was in a nip-and-tuck
match for the British championship.
although worried at the time by n
heart trouble that was aggravated
| by nerve strain and the feeling that
| his boyhOod friends at St Andrews
were looking on with hostile eyes?
Jim Barnes had some right 10
wear the Red Badge of Courage
| too when he won the open cham
pionship this year. after several
! attempts that failed. Just as he
was starting a friend asked him
| IL he felt nervous.
why" said Barnes. IA cham
pionship is only another game"
The man who can start in that
| spirit has his battle half won.
I've seen a football captain. Don
! ellis, with his leg broken. in the
| first half refuse to be taken from
the field. and lie on red blanket
| in the mud of the sidelipes to
watch his team make a desperate
uphill fight. so that his presence
would encourage the boys. Tha,
red blanket was his Red Badge OF
| Courage.
/ remember when Locomotive
| Smith, of Columbia knocked gu,
eight times in a game with Yale
reeled through the plays until the
! last whistle blew.
Tom Sharkey. with three broken
ribs. rushed Jim Jeffries without
| wincing until the end of the
twenty-fifth round and wanted 70
| lick the referee when he lost the
decision. He couldn't believe de-
| feat possible.
saw Bob Fitzsimmons. fighting
with both hands broken, three first
knuckles of his right shattered and
| driven back an inch or more. turn
his wrist up to deliver blows with
the one knuckle that remained and
| grin.
| I've seen a "beaned" ball player
get up from the dust and take a
few Keeling steps toward first base
before he fell in a heap.
| I've seen steeplechase Jockeys
thrown and rolled on by their fall
| ing mounts. try to climb back into
the saddle to finish the race. and
water polo players brought up hall
| drowned from the bottom of a tank
struggle to get back into the game
Remember Dorando-the game
little Italian runner who came frs,
into the stadium at London, only tc
| fall time and again. scious
| from exhaustion, rising and reelip o
| on again when Johnny Haynes came
up behind him? He could have worn
the Red badge.
Looking back over the endless
list. it seems to me that the wearer
of the Red badge OF courage is the
man who makes coed. win or lose
And beside wearing the red badge
winning or losing is a small affair