Show SELF CONTROL IS S THE FIRST ELEMENT FOR A CLASSY BOXER 1 3 Formidable Who ho Aspire to Crowns Fail Because They Are re Found Lacking in Some Way ray When Put PLit to Acid Test Other Pugilistic Notes BY JACK SKELLY Now York Tan Jan 12 Old 12 Old Bob Fitzsimmons often said to me roe before n a nbattle battle II T Tf If my opponent loses his blooming end cad I Ill I'll JJ darn soon find it And he did with a swift knockout kick In all his great fights poor old Bob was always ns as cool as ns a cucumber under the most exciting circumstances and never got gol a bit rattled or lost I his self I 1 ha have C seen Fitz half halt groggy from a hen heavy punch reeling around the ring but he always managed cd to weather the storm protect himself and use the best of judgment When Joe had Fitz Fib floored for the count of nine nine in in Boston in in 1894 1804 and all the ringsiders thought the lanky Cornishman was beaten he be managed to gain his feet and hang on to Joe until his brain cleared and heas ho lie was as himself again This was one reason why Bob was such a n great fi fighter He never lost his bearings bearing'S and Wl self-control self like so many other men in the ring do nowa- nowa days Fred Fulton Pulton Is Very Apt to Lose Self In ninny of hi his combats it seems to mo me t nt Fred Fulton locks lacks proper self self- and wise judgment especially when he is hit hurd or in some somei i gruelling crisis The giant Minnesota plasterer evidently lost his 11 head l d on Christmas s afternoon when he threw his antagonist onist Harry rate out of the tho ring ling nt at Little Rock Rode Ark and lost tho the battle on a foul l But listen to what hat my ray old fearless fr friend end Bat has to say I about the ru rude e scrap p in his bright boxing gossip in the New York Morning Morn Telegraph Our done is that Tate was knocked down and out by a fair blo blow and that McCarney is too good a sport to try and win the fight for his man onan on onan an alleged foul Fulton too no doubt believed ho had scored a legitimate knockout nn and when he saw sac that he was not to get the fight then and ann there thero concluded that it wn wa was fixed to job him and with that idea in mind did perhaps deliberately throw Tate out of the ring Fulton as all who know him will wiH concede is not burdened with too much ranch intelligence He is a hair-brained hair sort of a fellow v who is apt to fly off the handle when least expected He is nt at any rate far from being a n. headed cool-headed fighter Judging from what he has said to us ns se several times lately he goes oes into the li ring rin fully convinced that he be is going to get the t-he worst of it in some way ife He lie suspects everybody and laboring under such sucha a 3 delusion is quite apt to lose his head hend at a 1 critical stage He has hns in Mike Collins for a manager one of the best qualified men in the country in every respect Collins is cool and calculating and does v i i L' L 1 l. l n Ti C. C n 1 Hn lino u lr li 1111 OT for P S into the llin Tin rim to I 4 LV L A 0 n OJ but Collins Collin's efforts are arc not always successful I Carl Cad Morris Is Another Fighter Who Loses His Head I really do not believe that Carl Morris Norris intends to be so ru rude e anti and rough I j in b battle as he is quite frequently I regard him as ns a very game natural fighter without much real scientific rin ring tactics or cool jud judgment In t the e heat beat of battle Morris appears to lose his head bend and rips in full fashion m mauling wrestling and hitting in any old way as long as he C can finish his man This may go in street brawls but not in the orthodox ring under the recognized code W Yc We c must have clean skillful boxing boxing- wIthin within within with wIth- in the ropes without any roughneck methods whatsoever Mike ODowd Is Rather Bather Wild in His Judgment While Mike 0 ODowd Dowd the game young young- middleweight ht champion chr is nODin not nOD in any sense a foul fi fighter still he lacks that cool self-control self possessed b by b most all the famous champions in the history of Mike is always too anxious and hot beaded to gain n a ictor victory right off the reel in a round or two instead of going at nt his task ta-sk k in a cool wise wise scientific e manner Of course the Fighting St. St Paul Harp is full of youthful ginger and ana fire He puts his whole heart and Ind soul into a fight Tight nit lUt he should also put a little more brain work into his milling as 35 well if ifIe he Ie wants to hold his title for a few fen years roars at least But there arc a whole lot of flashy young boxers like lile 0 ODowd Dow 1 in the I game at present who Vho are full of steam courage and vigor igor who would be ue 1 much more formidable fighters if they used the their r mental qualities as asis much had better self-control self in b the is they do o their physical and ring |