San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-11

over that he still had chance MS
Fitz had broken his hand. After
half a minute. Gardner understood,
and leaning forward, took look
across the ring at Fitz. Old Bob,
watching Gardner. began twirling his
thumbs, and Gardner turned TO his
seconds and said:
"Go on his hand isn't broken"
Bluffed Gardner Out Of Title.
Gardner recovered quickly and
came W strong. But he was in fear
of another crashing right, and old
Bob, rushing out for the third round,
started with a wild right swing that
made Gardner jump back. Fitz didn't
intend to land that blow. He pur-
posely missed by a couple of feet.
But he convinced Gardner that the
hand was all right, which was what
he wanted. Then Fitz, having only
n left hand to fight with. settled down
to bluff with the broken right and
get Gardner. if he could, with the
left. II was twenty-round fight.
Toward the end Gardner realized that
he was fighting a man with one hand.
and pressed Fitz, but Freckled Bob
began actually hitting with the
broken hand and bluffed George back
to defensive tactics. FitZsimmons,
boxing eighteen rounds with n use
less right hand. won the decision and
the championship. 1t was the first
fight in all his career that went
twenty rounds and the first in many
years that didn't terminate in a clean
knockout.
Fitz proved in that fight that a
good workman can apply faulty tools
and obtain surprising results.
Jess Sweetser, early in the final
match for the 1922 National ANA
teur Golf Championship. broke his
miliron shaft by hitting into the
ground on difficult lie. The col
legian is a long driver but his great
game is with the irons and his midiron
is his pet club. He gets great dis
lance with the midiron and is amaz-
ingly accurate. All MS iron shots
go straight to the pin" For a mo-
ment it looked as IL he would be Sc
riously handicapped by the loss Of
his best club. His father, following
the match. rushed off TO get another
midiron for the boy and the only one
he could pick up in hurry was a
light midiron. lady's club, that
Sweetser's mother had used.
Jess took that midiron and used
it all through the match so success
fully that he won the championship.
Again il was the man, and not tn"
tools, that counted.
was once throwing the hammer
against John Flanagan in a rather
close contest, On next TO his last
throw John broke his hammer handle.
We used grips of entirely different
models, John using a double loop
while mine was a single loop. John
borrowed my hammer and, although
unused to the grip, mad the winning
throw and broke his own world 5
record. Any weight thrower knows
that using a strange implement in a
competition is usually a severe men
tai hazard.
In Athens, at the Olympic games
in 1906, Martin Sheridan had train
ed with an American discus. and on
the day of the meet found that he'd
have to throw with Greek discus
Of an entirely different shape, having
thick rim like n cartwheel and be-
ing a much clumsier implement. than
Sheridan was accustomed to. But
nothing ever worried Martin. He had
no "nerves.T Taking the clumsy
Greek discus he won the event and
broke the worlds record. And when
Prince George of Greece complimented
him. Martin said:
"Sure, il was nothing. With an
other try or two I'd not only throw
it across the field but into the creek
beyant."
The "creek" was the famed Illysus.
of which Homer sang. The tools are
a mere detail. Everything depends
on how You use them. Think of that
next time you think you must have a
set of new golf clubs TO take few
strokes off your game.
Copyright. 1923. by The Bell
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