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Show Chris Brown Is Rare Bird I He Is Startlingly Truthful By DAMON RTJNYON IF Chrxs Brown will send his address to this off ce he w 11 recene b return eartSge a copy of the famous print which depicts G Wash ngton beint cross exam ned by bis dad with reference to the prostrate cherrj tree lou remember the scene of course and of course, jou remember what G Washington said on that historic occas on Father I cannot tell a e he said or words to that effect I did it with mj 1 ttle hatchet There are several reasons whv we desire to send tn s picture to Chr s Brown In the first place t has become a bit shopworn from hang ag in the off e and people keep m staking it for a portrayal of Lee s surrender at Appo attox o t ster s Last StancT and tn tho second place the sentiment expressed n ght tend to warp the natural bent of j oung reporters the frong wa The chief reason why we desire to end it to Cbr s howe er s as a ewa for erac t which is ever a beautiful thine to see in other people Lhr s the first manager of a prize fighter to tell the low do-vi truth We attnb e to Chris s nexpenente but none the less he is deser ing of son e re ogn t on Chris s looking after tho interests of Tom Cowler the hea weight protege of James J Corbctt In sending out a record of Cowler s fight Tin do the ten roun I bout that Cowler nad with G nboat Sm th at the St N chol t rink anj marks after it L meaning lost lost b Cowler that l THIS IS MARVELLOUS iT was a ten ronnd no-deeu on bout and all the sporting writers in the citr expressed the opinion that Cowler was beaten bet he was not knocked out therefore wa tho ght that Chris s t pewnter must have pulled a t jograph cal boot. We never before beard of a manager or a fighter admitt ng in a printed record that bis man lost a no-decuuon bout where he Aid not a t allv take the oiint, no matter bow badlv he ma ha e been distanced. Search the records of any other fighter you e er heard of champions near champions and plain dubs and see u this statement isn t correct. Look up fight that vou yourself ha e witnessed where one man was licked by aa far as you can sboot a fle and sec how he has marked that fight in his record It will be No Dc for all the money you've got, if it lan t LodicateJ SB W meaning won So natural! we thought the Cowler recording in the Smith case was an error until we looked on and found another L after hie fiht with Battl ng Levinsk-v Th s waa another ten round no-decmon bout in which the newspaper decision went against Cowler and Cbns admits it l If he isn t entitled to some reward for eracit who ist He is the first manager on record to recognise newspaper decisions as official so far as his fighter is concerned HOW OLD IS TOM? WE are inclined to smile a b t incredulo isly at the statement at the head of the record that Cowler was born March 189 which would make him only J Mars of age He looks ft trifle bevond that bit then we don t belie e that Jess ttillard is a day less thanJ f not 4 Maybe we re wrong in both instances Anywav ( owler a manager tells enough truth abo it those no decision affair to permit him a little leewa in thr matter of age so we 11 pass that Cowler s record as furnished b truthful hr Brown sho vs twent c ght knocko ts n thirt two fight Of these ninctee ere n "uccession following a fifteen round win over Bob ''canlon in I on Ion Prior tp tbat he had six straight knockouts but before beginning tbat rt cular run he enco ntercd frank Moran and lost m se en rounds Here wp find a ght discrepanr Brown aa a th s loss was on a fo I but n Moran a record the fight is recorded as a six round knotkout for Moran Brown now la m he will g e Moran a guarantee of $u00) to meet (.owler The orbet protege did most ot 1 s fighting n Fngland an I then he landed n Van o er whe e Ho fo ght and won a co pie of battles F om anco ver hr dr tted to Tacoma whe e he wa p eke I up V Corbctt TOM JONES S OPINION 0 ER in A straha Tom s ored three knockouts and then returned to this ountrr w th James T and fought Gunboat Smith He was not badlv beaten in that flgh but he was beaten all right He can a back not long after ward and stopped lack Ilemple, who was regarded as a tough citizen about then and next a a hi fich t rs th LeMnskv and Tom Mc.art owler ateadir impro ing there s no doubt abo t that and ( the scant h rs tn mat on the top of b s hea 1 and the 1 ncs in his face belie his age as fhria aa Thomas na ha e q ite a future before him Tom tones ma ager of Jess WiUard who aw (.owler box Le nsky the nigh Cowler wa defea ed leclared h s belief that the Englishman is the best of a I the h g fellows aro nd New York Whether h op n on was based on Tones s desire to grab (.owler for WiUard o whether Tones all telle es that wav is not known but that s what Tom btt d an wa |