The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-12
BELGIAN WELTER IS MAKING CRITICS SIT UP AND LOOK
Pete Hobin Is Freak in Build, But Has the Goods,
 Says Jim
By JAMES J. CoHBETT (Copyright, 1922, by King Features
 Syndicate, Incl


 Belgium has thrust Pete Hobin upon these sunlit shores, with the comment:
 Wonder welterweight of the world"
 Pete looks it.
 He is about as tall as the average flyweight-and as wide as the base of the Statue of Liberty. He has legs as large as the torso of an ordinary featherweight: arms that remind one of the piston rods on a giant loco motive.
 His Six-Inch Punch
 Pete" remarks Ad Laensn, his Belgian manager, Knocks them dead with a six-inch punch"
 After noticing the size of Pete's ham m-like fists and the hugeness of his arms. one wonders why he wastes the extra four inches-why he doesn't unloosen two-inch shots and let the other boys fall where they may.
 Pete hasn't had a chance around these parts yet, that is in real war fare, But they trotted him forth d
 
 g.mnasiums of New York, sicked him onto a sundry collection of some ot our noble foreign borns-and this is what they say:
 What They Say.
 Bob Roper, heavyweig ght-"W hew, how that boy can hit.
 Mike ' McTighe, middleweight- Haven't seen any welterweight birds for long time who seem to be in that baby's class. He has a punch that makes you feel as if the Wool worth building fell on you when it lands. That short, squat appearance of his makes him look slow and clumsy. But when he begins to step around-yip, yip."
 Danny Frush, featherweight - Jack Britton and those other wei ters should be mighty careful about tackling that fighting freak"
 Cliunie Tait. lightweight-"Fast, clever-and how he can hit"
 Jimmy Bronson, manager Of Bob Martin-'I've seen a thousand and one different fighters in the last few years. And I don't recall seeing any better looking prospect than Hobin'
 Over in Europe they acclaim him the l45 pound champ.
 That's all because of his record" recounts Laenan. Pete, who is 22 now, has been fighting five years. He has had s2 tights and won 49 with knockout blows. He has never suf- fered real defeat in his life. He fought every man at and around his weight in Europe. He fought seven men in. a row in Paris in 192l-and knocked out all of them.
 ''Then he was signed up by one of the big promoters there to fight any | ha n He named a lot. Pete said it was all O. K. with him. But the other fellows thought different. They wouldn't take the fights-not with Pete op- posed to them.
 There bein.. no one else for Pete to fight, he decided to come to ,Ameri- ca and make it his future home. He has been here only short time but already he has applied for his natur- alization papers"
 Was Once . Boxer
 Discussing the career of Hobin, his manager said:
 Pete used to be nothing but a boxer He never did care much about slugging. But after time he got 10 thinking everything over He found sticking to the boxing depart ment forced him to work to the limit in every fight. And that became a bit tiresome.
 Realizing thSt he'd get paid the same amount of money for working only a round or two as he would get for letting bout go the full distance Pete discarded the old boxing idea and decided to become a slugger. As I a result, he has won about 40 of his last 52>. fights by putting the other 1 boys to sleep.
 Maybe these American boys don't get sleepy as soon as the boys do or the other side. Maybe they can keeI I awake little longer after Pete hit: them. But Pete dosen't think so. Ht wants a chance to prove It. So i Britton. Shade and the others wil just step forward and let Pete intro duce himself. Pete will see how Ions 1t takes to hypnotize them with hi, punches"