The Washington times., 1929-07-22
WILL Toll
10 HOURS
4 DAY
By Davis J. walsh

ANANW OAhy July AA'
Maybe / have just been taken
for a long ride in the young
man 3 private buggy. Possibly
! am a credulous cuss who
sits up away after 9 o'clock,
waiting for the bedtime
stories.
Anyhow, Tommy Loughran, hailed
here and there as the coming heavy.
weight champioa 6 the world and
worth upward OF 4 quarters million
dollars in his own right, informs me
today that he Is about to accept q
$25-a-week job as the big, honest
blacksmith's helper who looks the
whole world in the eye and prom.
tees to pay faithfully on the first
Of the month.
This. Mr.. LOugllrin informs me,
fs to be his sacrifice to the bigger
and better heavyweight who like the
glowing metal he beats into shape,
will be moulded on the anvil of his
own exertions. He expects to
emerge from the ordeal, six months
later. as the best heavyweight of
his day and. therefore, the cham.
pion Of all heaxyweights. Lough.
ran says he win abandon the one
hour night in favor of the 10-hour
day early in September and, il he Is
kidding somebody, it must be him
Belf.
He really believes that he viii
staIld 10 hours each day In the
glow Of the forge, and pound
&na.A a.Aw,gR uu.akgu @n,.., mr4l Rnsmm.
ei0n dollars worth Of pounding
has been cOnsuElmated. 30 to
speak.
Supposedly, he Is going to work,
not as Tommy Loughran, the fighter
who just got S51, 900 for q successful
defense Of the light heavyweight
title, but as Thomas Loughran.
qualified blacksmith's helper.
A Is the job he held in 1921, and
The man who employed him then
and the man he says win employ
him now are one and the same.
This fact, 1t seems. means that 1t
will be job and not an exhibition
putt.
'"Thfs guy wouldn't hire me unless
meant to do the work." he ex.
planned He wants helper, not an
occasional visitor to the shop.
ought to know. Back In 1921, he
wouldn't let me fight at night and
work for him at the same time. That
a, he told me would have to give
up one or the other.
Mr.. LOughran apparently
didn't find it necessary to finish
this thought, but / judged that
he got very big about It and
gave up blacksmithins.
1t appears now that he must have
Malessed wrong or he would have
been a better man today, Anyhow,
0f he had done 1t then, he wouldn't
Glnd it necessary to do Ii now. He
figures that the job will turn him
out six months later, Weighing 1870
poundsno fat pounds, but honest
pounds. He has a certain amount
OF precedent to support the idea in
question.
Fitzsimmons was a blacksmith In
his early days and had the punch of
q nightstick, regardless of body
that was comparatively frail. Mis-.
ter Tunney was another Of the
dainty ones and, before he became
interested in the finer things of life.
he foupd this burden. So he went
into the woods, he did, all by him.
self, this sterlinf fellow, and attacked
some OF the biggest trees very fear.
lessly. Ultimately, he returned to
civilization and. being strong and
absolutely intrepid, he walked right
up to Dempsey and gave him flog-
Ri1g, as 1t were.
Thomas Loughran, I'm afraid.
doesn't love Mister Tunney for
himself alone. but he Is not
above borrowing the gentleman's
precedent, the gentleman having
NO need for this where he il.
''In weigh $780," says he, "and
.ft win be solid. natural stuff, Any
time ] stop training now, / weigh
186, but q lot OF 1t is fat that slows
me up. At the new weight, III be
just a. fast as / ever was, but I'll
be stronger and tougher. / don't
think any heavyweight can beat
me now; but six months from now.
IN be sure Of It.
MAMMA a AIHnA