The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-31

championship l would have to keep s to keep him back and with left from getting set for a punch. | when 1 looked up at the red light in- dicating the number of the round and realized that l had eight more rounds to go. drunk You better get ready to come out after me-" I said to Morgan in the corner after the eighth round.
 "You made the weight, you won't be hard to carry," Morgan said
 Gets Worse And Worse.
 The ninth and the tenth rounds were terrible. My legs were bending under me. I was dizzy and I couldn't hold my hands up. The blows that I couldn't block I had to stop with my stomach. Several times I saw two Walkers in front of me and 1 ing to hit me.
 If it hadn't been for the funny betting, the calling off of the bets and the promise I had given Rickard, I would have had the towel thrown in after the tenth round.
 Retirement would have fit right In with the stories and made it look like it wasn't on the level. As a re- suit I had to take the worst beating a champion ever got. Jess Willard | didn't get hurt any more at Ioledo than I did that night. On my word 1 wouldn't go through with it again for s250. 900. Another 15 rounds or beating like that would drive me d!p- py, l believe.
 step Out In The Eleventh.
 After the tenth round I took big drink of aromatic spirits of ammo mia and it brought some new ire l into me. My muscles seemed to loosen, my head cleared and l feit | like some of the dope eaters act in the movies after they have taken shot.
 I stepped out in the eleventh round and gave Walker the pasting and the surprise of his life. He got me with a right hand under the heart just before the bell and it took all the new life l had right out of me.
 Before the thirteenth round, Re1- cree Haley came over to Morgan anu said: ,,
 pan, you're the chief second. Tn | looking for the towel or the slsn from YOU, This fellow cant go much farther
 pan, you're the chief second. I'm How about it. Jack?' :.
 l told him I would try to last |. out. that I was the champion and II I had to go I wanted to go fighting.
 "You're out now, Jack. You maven A chance Why take such peat ing?" Haley said to me.
 I refused again 10 quit and Haley
 went back to the corner after telling
 me that he was ready to stop the
 bout the first time I gave him the
 sign.
 rounds are complete blanks to me l recall a feeling like sleep comins , over me and an almost uncontrollaplt desire to get off my feet. I don | Infi1 hack in my corner and the bout was over At first I thought I must have beer knocked out but when Morgan said 7 "Old man, you just did last It out | We'll go home now."-I knew that was on my feet when the crown wal removed.
 | The cheer that the crowd gave me even in defeat was something that
 never shall forget.
 Back in my dressing room wal tired and almost to the point of ex haustion. But in spite of it fel
 taken off me What l thought o
 first was-"Well, the wife will b' l satisfied now!" She had been afte
 me for a year to retire and was re l lieved that finally was out Of It.
 Insomnia No AIibi.
 What I have said about being old t in bad shape, etc., is not meant t' } take anything away from the new t champion, Mickey Walker. He was l game loser the first time met hin
 and a most gracious winner the sec ond time. referred to the insomnfi
 that had kept me from training prop erly not as an alibi but merely be
 cause I thought some explanation . was necessary on account of thos betting stories.
 v I didn't have any money bet. r didn't tell any of my friends to be t on me or against me. AS far as n am concerned the bout went the wa. < 1t should have-the better man won