Show ADMITS HE HAS I I MUCH TO LEARN Bob Martin Is 1 One Fighter Who Doesn't Quite Know w wIt It All By Bob Martin Himself Heavyweight Champion of the A. A E. E F. F and Armies Y first jr t big bis bout Ov Over r hero here ivr My W t I such a ft task after all aU It we ItS the tho first time I fter er made I much money out of or boxing I had ono one professional proCessional bout previously and ancl that wee W In Paris with Bob nob Scanlon Scanlon Scan- Scan lon ion after I had won the Int title I L beat Scanlon in Paris and won francs I knocked him down nine times before he took the count in the eleventh that eleventh that lucky eleventh again And on the boat t coming back the Minnesota Min Mm- Un- Un I picked up a 1 few dollars for fot boxing box box- Ing a I few leW rounds and also aIo had the privilege lege of the officers' officers bath In the meantime mean mean- time Jack Dempsey Dempse was traveling in stat stati to the Pacific coast Seeing the Statue of Liberty again In New York harbor meant more to me than all flU tho the medals anti and Inon money y Theme Thel e was vas a 1 big reunion of or the Martin and DeWitt families at t burg W. W Va and I was there There were vere GOO alto altogether and I 1 was the biggest in the bunch h. I t took on Joe Bonds Donds at Akron after r I had a good rest and visited folks at Terre Alta where I think every hery ono one of the SOO Inhabitants met me at the station They all knew me because I delivered their milk hulk when I was a kid I I 1 learned a lot In the two weeks tre- tre re ce cuing the Bonds fight tight I knew there theN was lots to learn and that a a. drafty crafty meg i-meg- I ster like Joe might slip o One oie e over any time And now Sow that it Is over her I know thel e are lots of other things to learn I must learn better to k keep t thos i f fellows O Othe away from me inc and I must l lern 1 n to let the other fellow lead now and then 1 I Idid did lId all aU the leading with Bonds Bond und mind he took advantage of my gr greenness to crowd In close and clinch ever every chance chanc he lie get That was one reason I didn't him any sooner The Other oiher was a sore right hand I think a lot of that right though from reading rending the account of the Bonds fight you'd think I only had a a. left arm I want to work vork with some of the old- old timers and learn the things picked up long ago I am In no hurry and I know It Is going to be pome me time before I will meet the best of them But Im I'm sure the day Is coming cOining when Ill I'll step Into Inlo th the ring and bo box for the highest honors 1 I the game |