Show I STUDY IN PATH OTIC FACE OF JOE CANS GANSO I Meek and Humble He Fights Because He Knows How to Destroy Not Because He Likes to Fight V Los Angeles Times Joe Cans Gaus the negro prizefight fight champion now training at Baldwins ran ranc is the most genuinely interesting character in inthe Inthe inthe the sporting world There Is something appealing about him To the sporting world he is merely de dechamp champ hamp a God and an idol and a dog to tomorrow morrow If be he should be licked tomorrow But to real people there is a curious and wistful Interest surrounding him himlie He lie is not In the least like a prize fight fighter er As AI a general thing a prize pizo fighter is isan Isan isan an excessively offensive person whether he be a Jimmy Britt and attempt an in intellectual Intellectual intellectual pose ir r a roughneck like Tommy Burns and affect a valet and a cane Gans Cans is a meek mek humble mulatto with the saddest face the writer has ever eer seen It is a puzzling and remarkable face Some one ono has written that Gang Gaits has the face of an Egyptian or an Arab and not of at a negro and it is true There Is something about it that sug suggests suggests en a young oung St S1 Bernard dog doga a puppy as it cocks its head to one side and looks out with troubled perplexity upon the world There Is the same wrinkled pus puzzled puzzled look of ot Inquiry I No o one could look Into the eyes of the picture printed at the top of this group I and not nt be Impressed They are not the eyes of ot an Ignorant negro and the face does not have that pe peculiar peculiar pecullar culiar cullar flitting appearance of or momentary emotions written only that characterizes so many of at his race The tragedy and pathos of at his race and not Its merriment are written In tn the deep eyes Ces of Cans Gans His puzzled look is not the fretful peevishness of at stupidity it is the look of one who sees and wonders why wb It Is ast as if he were asking why it should be his destiny to beat mens faces with padded gloves Face of a General The man who discovered that his face Is not a negro face tace may also have sug suggested suggested that It Is not a pugnacious face fare It is the face fae of ot a general or a war eagle not of a brawler Gans Gnus fights because he be knows how to destroy not because he Is a fighter Many people have hae seen Gans Gaas bitterly In Insulted suIted without resentment on his part Bat Nelson fights because he Is a pug pugnacious little UWe boy and he would Just as Lt 0 I V r V T t tw w C j jS S 1 V I Ir r t tr r iL t 1 4 r Ii p 1 J Jt t M I coon Eoon fight on a sidewalk sl e alk Gans could not easily be drawn into a quarrel Down in the bottom of his heart Gans Gnus hates bates prize fighting He may not know it but he does This In spite of the fact that t he Is without doubt the greatest expert the world has hIlS ever known J in the use of or the human fist Yesterday his training quarters at Bald Baldwins Baldwins wins ranch were crowded with sports Jim Jeffries the big champ was out there en some kind of inspection The sports sporn almost threw spasms of ot excite excitement excitement ment When Then Gans Gaas sat down to talk to his wife a semicircle of a hundred men watched I him when he ho got up to cross the yard an admiring procession followed him When Then he was rubbed down the tho sports crowded In il until there breathing room Between whiles they th y lined the op side of the street and dumbly watched the white cottage where he trains Almost any negro would have put on until he swelled up and burst with t in hated pride It was vas interesting to see fee Joe Gans Plainly it n wearied him He Ho looked look d out over the heads of the crowd wistfully and sadly and with a gentle dignity and patient resignation Inside the rubbing room was accomPlished pushed the somewhat peculiar feat of in a artist to Joe as the latter lay prone and naked being rub bed Without a shade of either embarrass embarrassment embarrassment embarrassment ment or enthusiasm the champion champlon mourn fully thrust out one hand from tram his couch and the rubbing robbing proceeded His Some one has written of Gnus Cans extreme humbleness and of ot his knowing his place whatever that means But his hu is not of the order of cringIng rather of In the midst of all the adulation show ered upon him Gans Gnus spied big Jim Jet Jef fries His look was the awed look of a very little dog upon a giant Newfound land 1 It was suggested that he and Jeff should be photographed shaking hands and they the were brought out But the pose happened not to be of them clasping hands All done said the photographer and Jeff started to walk away A look of in intense Intense intense tense disappointment came into the mournful eyes of the negro we to be taken shaking hands he lie asked And the picture pi ture was taken over again to please him Gans Gaus completely forgot himself all day in his admiration of or the champion When the weighing and the rubbing and the bag punching were done Gans Gaas walked over to the table where his wife sat and threw himself into a chair his back to the crowd his pathetic appealing eyes looking into vacancy The writer of this sketch has hac seen Gans Gnus in an hour of great triumph the day aft after after at t tor er or the Goldfield fight when the sporting world was chasing round the mining camp to wring his hand He was no different He was just lust as melancholy and his eyes were Just as sad pad ad There Is no intention here hero of trying to tomake tomake tomake make out this negro prize fighter a para pam paragon gon of ot virtue He is said to b bt be a desper desperate ate gambler He says sas himself that he has gambled away awny awn nearly all the money he has ever made Roof His Only Limit They The say sa he be will ill never sit In a game unless the stakes are aro high He will play poker or shoot craps but hut there must be to beno teno tono no limit but the roof His Ht almost change chango changeless changeless less face makes him a star in poker This is one of at his Ethiopian I characteristics Another trait Is his tendency to sudden outbursts of ot childish wrath His anger is the sudden ineffective futile random wrath of ot the negro which spends itself in hot words Gans Gaas is married to a mu mulatto mulatto mulatto latto woman who Is said to be Intelligent and resourceful Doubtless under her tui tul tuition tuition tion Gans has lately latel begun to save mon money money ey He is said laid to be worth or 40 in Baltimore real estate He Ho owns a 11 hotel for colored people and lira tsu t or three houses He is among his boyhood friends in the south as one who sits apart silent silently ly and sadly and gambles silently and aId sadly Sporting men say that he Is the great greatest greatest greatest est ring general and expert fist wielder who has ever eer lived Jived His fiercest fI antagonist Battling Nelson the Dane says sas If It you OU let Gans lead he be h hcan becan can lick any anyone one of his weight who ever fought In a ring He will murder Burns Durns It is said that at Gans Gaits never neer wastes a blow He swoops down like a falcon He does dOe not strike often but his blows are crucial and vital he has a Napoleonic eye for the right moment V Altogether her although prize fighters are tiresome Gans Cans as a creature of ot war Is interesting S I |