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Show Ill H !S MOST IJ1E OF SPORTS Boxers Are Through Earlier Than Athletes in Any-Other Any-Other Branch. v- Ad Wplgast, at 25, is practically through aa a fighter. A-be Attell and Bat Nelson were put out .of tho running at 28. All threo were champions of their profession and Usfed among the most rugged of athletes. That tells the big part of the story of tho ring game, tho most -wearing and tearing of all sports. The ring gamo la tho only one In which a man Is through In his business while still In his youth. Pop Geors, at GO. Is still one of the' greatest trainers nnd drivers of trotting and pacing horses. Cy Young, who retired re-tired from active service last year, was a good pitcher at 45. William Lamod is a champion tennis player at 32, Jerome Travera in national amateur golf champion cham-pion at 40, and Rarney Oldficld, at 80, has failed to be countod out by Father Tlmo. Constant reducing of weight to make 133 pounds, tho lightweight limit, -caused tho death of Joe Gaus. Constant reducing re-ducing of weight has worn away tho life of other fighters. Tho terrltlc grind of training, tho sacrifice sacri-fice of strength and nervous cnorgy to make a certain weight and the strain of battle wear away the ellk of a fighter with more telling effoct than any work connected with any other form of athletics. ath-letics. Bat Nelson was so tough and rugged that ho fought noveral hundred battles before he was beaten by Wolgnat In 1910, tho fight being stopped. That sounded the end of Nelson, for In tho same year ho wua -knocked out for tho first time, by Owen Moran, and haa boon of little value In tho ring since. "Wolgast, In turn, was beaten by Willie Ritchie, and Is about to retlro at the ago of 25. Attell, at 2S, reached tho end of hlB string and was beaten by Johnny KH-bano, KH-bano, aged 24. Jimmy Brltt's career ended when ho was 2C. His knockout by Nelson was followed by knookouts by Gans, McFarland and Summers In quick succession. Billy Papko, at 22, was knocked out by Kotchol, and since has boon able to go only with second-rators. Joe Rlvors. the Moxlcan, at 18, was beaten by lulbane. The records of fighters chow without doubt which of all the sports la the most stronuoun. . |