Show FIRST FIST BATTLE WAS IVAS WARM FOR OBRIEN O'BRIEN Philadelphia Jack Certainly Remembers First st Fi Money He Won in Ring ONE PUNCH DID BUSINESS ci 1101 mt il m ii lost Ligi cl 3 m t- t tI I lea cig I ht m t Tells of if 11 Smelling m 11 Will Wili i i I m I-mba-c I miss t tUo Do I m rn m my it-it it battle Ga eav mays I Ph Jack Jock Well Veli Wel rather I cun enn never form forgot fOrtl ft for tor I 1 on onI I limit thul OcR occasion on about ubo t the lic wont war It mt I ha has hae ever OI C been rim riy ru to a intro 0 o tai tip ta A. and amid it b of or t l was banished l 1 from home borne and family for tor more mure Wan atm a a year On the even evenna nr of Dec OCl 12 1 ISM IS I u. u I tp l f t was ton tendered eed to Bert i Crom t a Philadelphia nt m man mn and promoter o of boxing at qt l the Cub Cule- Cull Cull- donon Art I 11 1 mat tH etI et I had been boxing occasionally In iii the tin tournaments an and and- had hd net met BI Billy I Payne We c were fa fast l friend and ami 1 I n nI n a I him to 10 th th- Caledonian club I that PC Payne nc at nt time the time had laid on a match with mi-li-h Tommy Ryan Ran and was ivas s to IQ tl ht hm at iii fi S Syracuse N N. N S. S y D Dee c 23 I ley i than lion two weeks later On the wall war wa ill up ll town P Payne n sad to me Jack 1 I dont don't like this affair of ot too toi ht I Ill I'll Il II about RO go ROn goa n a with Strauss ud nd out with Ith a u broken hand or wor worse e. e He's Hes Ics Ic's an Hn awful in ml lx emI em- em I think I said ald I Id I'd Why KO no u In with h that met mul in u a f f I hR had a I chance Payne Pane cuu caught hl me quick T i T you vou OU Jack Aint you oti 0 ali afraid of oC him and and and- wel well a fow etow sets gets I Into that lint sort Horl of thing some collie before h he lie knows know It It I. I and amid w InI In- In sub Ire of two minutes I J was committed and I was to me nc about It Il Got SI Sill SIl Ii tot for Th lh l t FI right light ht I l remember very cry distinctly that hat I in insisted in- in on known knowing what wits was iS In tn It If for forI forme I me thos' thos thov say a I never forget that and and Mr Crowhurst Cm agreed that I should have 10 1 I had laid never to t did ill not know him hm hut but ut I knew of hm a a a- about the thc nastiest 1 mixer fIxer In that c lolI lol I was wan about 1 ili pounds didn't know what ha t t wu was n and nd had lied none too science Foot k ork was yet jet a sealed box hox to Ie me au- I wits was WiS not quite 13 El yea rear Is old 01 lint hUl hUla a way ivas plenty of ur hard Ol for m my who was a n contractor und and was call i-call real really in fairly good o condition rom Irom 1101 th time the fri I of or the gon on we ire p tar ted to m mix thIngs for foi keeps arid and Inc anybody who saw aw Hint thal tl tight ht sot got ot his moneys money's monCy's worth lr lq 11 lie third ro 1011 id miJ I saw Raw sawan sawan an opening and anti caught Strauss StraU on oil the lie the law jaw aw I He went Wt like a pos post t falling aIng 01 ocr oer J I can never mme n cr time the feeling or emotion or whatever er you OU 11 may call cal It I that went through me when Isadoro isadora Isa- Isa doro dora Strauss went down One Omie Ilo Decided My Career Cam J 1 think that blo rC I re illy cr Cc my S S Straps ss g WI was up in n a n few tw see sec ond an and I we went wem-t nt nl It t a Toward ti the end cad of or the sixth round round- t it t was a H tL- tL round bout bout bout-a boUl-a boUl a saw saw that I J hud had the b bist st of It It and auth wondered that thi this great man nan wa waI wai I weakening They were vcr vcr giving decisions ons with six round Ix bouts In Philadelphia m in 1 tho those ho c days and amid the he mado made this i one a draw I Both m mj eyes were blackened I ful fully and almost clo closed cd und and m mv my bCd body I was covered cred with wih ugly i-ugly bruises Payne took me mc to his home und and existed b by 1 his wife nursed me nearly u alt all al nIGht Mi Mrs 8 Payne was II il but sho shia thu sot ot Ol out of ot bed aid nd helped helped to to at casc m my many pains pain I I shall her with wih gratitude for that nl nights night's ht work to so o Ion long na as I J am mom permitted per per- to live c 1 i i Turned U I roni rol Home It I was evening of lie HIP next next day when II I went home I 1 had never tr been awa away I I from mv my m home ham all ull ul nl hl without I j i m my parents parents' knowler knowledge f and arid consent I I Father i met amet me m m- m m- m wih questions about m my i black blade eres ee 3 and Ald swollen face fuce of or cour course course- e. e I had th time the memory of the fall fal of or I Isadora Isadore s before me and I 1 told old m my father I all al about It I. I It J is Y was a am I then hen for tie the tIt fist st t mc HII that t the lie Ito learned of or 1 mv using the thc name of or Jack I declared bravely cl my Intention tion of or fl und mind m my father lather said ald I 1101 would have ha to huat other quarters which I dd I IJ Ii Buck Buck- I ionic Home Many good reports of or me had lat gone I foi forth th and moud andt ld t t 1 was wai now easy cay for me to set act ct I had another bout on omm 01 Dei OC I ln Hi on 01 which i I J rC realized S 25 an and anI i another on omi the After IC leaving hearIng my imy fathers father's hou houe c c I r 11 within a nile rHe of time the old I home hOle and amid ald m myself cW My h fattier father and mother lothe never lr 11 lo l sight t of or me They Thoy I found 1 J was wa 11 1 living properly proper and amid on Feb 9 J I I received a i mC message IH C I had lon d lt I fr rr for r fo- fo C n R C I Ci U Und nd and went back baek to lo tolie the lie old house to a I welcome which delIght delIght- el ht htA I ed clI me i During the time timo I 1 had hal been away O A I had hint saved ec a just J GO and this was at 0 once c to rn m nr mother |