Show IT PAY TO Of BE Ii A fIGHT FIGHTER R Willie Fitzgerald Advises All Young Men to Keep Out of Game Willie Fitzgerald sa says s that it la to he a tighter rIghter If IC there thre is any an one ono in the tho world who should know the fight fighting fightIng fightIng ing Harp it is I tho the man manAt manAt manAt At present ho lie Is 11 26 6 years cars old having entered the ring at the age of or IS 18 He las has engaged on ag d in oer over 00 battles battle and now Is what hat the fight fans Cans regard as a master m workman Joe Gans Gaas In an interview some months ago declared that Fitzgerald was the toughest man he had ever met and from Gans Cans this la is a great gat g at compliment as the thel l has fought very ery man in the world of any an prominence around the lightweight limit and should certain certainty certainly be a fair lair critic Willie Fitsgerald declares that he has hns simply wasted the eight years he has spent In the thc ring When Wh n I Iwas iras 18 years ears old says sas Willie I started out to ta be an electrical engi engineer engineer neer I wanted to study It up and try to tobe tolie be lie somebody They had gloves In our of or office fice lid and antI little by b little I was learning the game After a while the fellows told me meI I 1 was so good that I was a sucker not to fight for the championship and got get a million dollars In purses It looked good to me meo Dreamed of Big Purses I 1 won fight after ter fight right when I started and trained like a horse hor e I always had that dream of or the big purses and the championship and kept on I fought my way up 11 to the top and then Joe Gans Cans set me rae back again The glory of r f winning In tn Inthe inthe the ring is great feat the cheering crowd pulls pull you ou on and the handshaking after arter afterward afterward ward makes you go back to it itI ItI itI I have hove never neer made any big money i average now about a week but then Im considered a man of ot my mJ back teeth have been pounded out one of or my eyes ees is out of ot shape from an uppercut that Gans Gaas landed on me and apul my body Is not as It should be take It from me No 0 fighter who ho has been In Inthe Inthe inthe the riPS ring any number of or years can cari be healthy health and right The kidney punches get to you ou and the beatings about the bead head are re bad and as for tor paralysis you never neer can tell when it ft will come comeI I figure that Im about to the end of ot the tring now no I have made all the money I can make out of it and when I look to the future there Is hardly any anything anything anything thing for me Yes I own two houses but they arc are not mansions If It I had studied as I intended I would now have some sort of ot position something to look forward to and my health which in is better than all The broken down fighter is 15 a pest Ho lie can attract no attention People dont care for tor what he did and like Robinson Crusoe he is alone My dope for the young youn fighters Is Quit the game and learn some trade or profession that will have a future L 1 |