Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-03 | Page 10 | How Rodenbach Won Amateur Champ Cup

HIJ Iglish. Idea' of American Heiresses. Tho London Saturday Review has been weighing tho American heiress and, If we may judge from Its remarks, finds her wanting. Here are some of the Review's conclusions: Tho number of American heiresses who have recently married peers or their relatives rela-tives Is really formidable. Now an heiress heir-ess nearly always comes of an unhealthy or barren stock, cIho she would not bo an heiress. As a rule, an heiress Is an only child. American fortunes are so gigantic gi-gantic that sometimes there is enough to make a millionaire brother and millionaire million-aire sister, or oven two of tho latter. But It will not be denied that American girls, whether from their climate, their dlot, their habits or the exciting, wearing life of their fathers, arc not so strong and .healthy as English girls. Their choice, therefore, by the best Englishmen as wives cannot, on physical grounds, be a matter of congratulation. It docs not require any very intimate knowl-edgo knowl-edgo of life In the United States to be awaro that the father or husband 13 regarded re-garded by his womanhood as a mero machine for the production of dollars, to bo fcquandercd on dresses, diamonds and visits to London and Paris. The calm HOW RODENBACH WON AMATEUR CHAMP CUP N'EW YORK. July 2. How William John Rodenbach, the New York youth, went to California and wrested the amateur heavyweight heavy-weight championship of the world from Sam Berger is an In-the In-the world from Sam Berger Is an interesting in-teresting story. He Is only 2G years old, was born and raised in a. New York Hat, and works from midnight to 9 o'clock in the morning as a lloorman In the department of street cleaning alables in Fifteenth street. The title which he has won has not given him any notions of entering the prize ring, either, and an amateur he says he will always remain if he lives to be a hundred years 'old. Rodenbach 1ms been amateur middleweight mid-dleweight champion of America since 1899, and when he discussed going to California to fight Berger, wise men advised him to stay away. "Berger is a head taller than you," they told him. "He has knocked Jim Corbett down and closed Fltzslmmons's eye. He'll put it all over you." But what "Rody" did to Berger is a matter of pugilistic history. He went to Frisco, boxed the wonderful big Berger, outfooted and outpointed him from the start, and won such a clean-cut clean-cut victory that the two judges, although al-though friends of Berger, awarded the decision to Rodenbach without a moment's mo-ment's hesitation. The triumph was the most notable ever won by an amateur fighting man. Rodenbach, weighing 15C pounds and standing 5 feet 8V Inches in his shoes, outfought Berger, who weighed 192 pounds and stood G feet 1 Inches, "Berger's a powerful fellow." said Rodenbach. "and he's as fast on his feet as Jim Corbett, but he has to set before he can hit, while I can let go a punch any time, whether I'm going in or backing away or side-stepping. That's how I beat him. Maybe I was a little quicker, too, but the punches that came at him without any warning were too much for Sam Berger. Every time I saw him getting set I just skipped out of his way. He only caught me once or twice on the body, and then I was going away from the blows. "I went back to my corner at the end