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Show ARMSTRONG GREAT FIGHTER, SAYS FITZ Who was the greatest fighter tob ever metf som& one asked Bob luz sunn on s the other lay I won t hesitate a moment oil that came bade Laniy Bob ' The greatest fighter that ever stood In shoe leather was Bob Armstrong Don t langb He was Sit foot font lgh tno "tmdrod and tea in heft. Boy I Can yon th flk ef the fighter I would have been ad I been six foot four and we ghed two "oildrfd and tent Why Bob could are wnipped Jeffries the best day he ever eaw ad I gone behind him. Bob and myself were putting the shot out in Oarson one evening I was tra ning for Corbett Ve had an audience of millionaires I could eave the pill about forty sine feet Arm strong would always come in second about an inch short of my mark I was pretty proud of my throw and as a final effort I tossed the shot fif teen inches over my best mark I bowed to the happlause of my mil 1 onaire fr ends and then Bob e throws Comes as usual an nch short of mv toss After supper Bob domes to me and e sa6 M stab Fitzsimmons ah would lak to toss you onee more So e takes rne out behind the barn and tosses it a foot fnrther than I ad ever thrown Then e picks hup the we ht again and with the eas est sort of a swing flops it down ten feet past the best mark that was in me T almost dropped Put it aga n I cried Tou 1 dn t put t yo threw t Bob p cks t h P aga n and blawt me if e loesn t w ng t fifteen feet better than I ad ever done Do it again, I cr ed n aston shment Well 8 r e p cks hup the old ball and drops t down seventeen feet better than mv mark And after me skvt ng before those m llionaires That shows what a phvs cal wonder that fellow wae And best of all e wo Idn t show hup old boss before s nobby f ends |