Show PROMOTER ns CHAMPION CHAMPI N. N OF BA PROMOTER SELECTS HIS STAR ALL R. R LIST OF BATTLERS Ivy Has Turned Out Many I of Great Merit Grim Now Means Persistency Under Punishment of Any Description I By T Tex ex Richard Rickard LL the former fighters that fighters that is up to but not including including ing those of today today today-I I would select them for the greatest heir class like this Heavyweight Jim Heavyweight Jim Jeffries I heavyweight i heavyweight Bob Bob Fitzsimmons Ketchel Joe Cans e lb Abe AttelL never could keep kolp up with the ban ban- and paperweights and so Ionic enough to havo any personal en on them lavery difficult to select a II group greatest in tn re relive re- re live clashes bec because us of them several classed Tal Take ritz ritz- hons for for- example He lie was a II- a great reat lI heavy heavyweight weight Ills weight practically the name ame In all these but that appeared to be no flO flOI flOj I to him Ha He was wall a master nil fighter than Bob Dob greater j II Blever ever lived pd At the same sam time I Ib b lIeve he could have licked Jef- Jef bot both 11 were In their prime i rk u purposely calculations left D Benny He y is IIII Leonard still n r a and may be even greater ever No man we now suspect crown with more the lightweight pride than a Leonard II He III Is fellow personally ef I I will to toe to 1110 it to the fight fans could think Leonard e whether they in eked Cans when both were I prime Ime monty money of these men were great I their day but with the ex- ex ln scra bust bust- good Jons of Jeffries few were I mentE men tE EY I sO I explain that there were other mo t the tho old school but I of t fl them because I never neer saw MW to be able to form any anyn I mention only those that I n seen se fight Save ave said that the champions I have havo I were not all 1111 good business 1 I of often ton wonder if If under under- the Tnt rate Hate of pay they would have will make maka a Dempsey better and es es' where Jeffries would not have bony I Via Via- quarter of a R. million wise bM- bM one of the n Corbett was Corbett was very to finances u the Idea Ide that a fighters fighter's grasp lasted but a short while therefore Invested wisely and In Into the tho theatrical busl- busl Lion drifted where he has done wen well connection It might be Inter Inter- of life what sphere note from came In the old the fighters i off ath- ath the mostly from they came clubs around Boston BORton New York k Orleans leans and San Francisco twenty years yearB ago the U U. 8 R. ginning I 1 b beathe be- be toOk took a R. big hand In boxing athe the battleships gUT gunboats and BO 0 a a. greater number V of f ave turned out i any other source Oddly out has haB not turned l the navy Nearly every everyone one of wall Just juet short of title caliber I e eB first great fighter to graduate lithe a n navy was s Tom Sharkey who Tsuch t men as sC C Corbett tt Kid McCoy Jeffries Tom made a lot of money d was out the George famous La old Blanche t a Jack Ir the Nonpareil with his pivot sey hen came Sailor Burke who I out to knock the first e way was i Grim Is III still u used d The name to denote a man who take a a. lot of punishment GRUI WHY navy j also turned out two to really reany lightweights In Paddy Ryan Hyan and Then there were Larry and Billy Shevlin of latter latter- bably the most famous navY mavy fighters were Frank Moran Gun oat Smith Moran was on presidents president's yacht Mayflower from jit be he was wall discharged to become Unprofessional On One could name i zen more mediocre navy fighters Uncle Sam's Sams boats turned ig ii fighters than any one source tave jUlit Just mentioned Joe Grim There W good Illustration of the point I 1 In tn this series of articles that more ore Important to select a fighter r public U wants to see t than to ni i no that the scrap will be up Joe Grim never could fight but he could stand more fighting any man In the world erY best bent of the fighters went hammered him all GrIm and s dl the dB-the the ring but thy they could not out His presence In the i pot to be a Joke among fight fans went to ame e a favorite They r regularly a Just to be present e I Ide eU Imer Ime first man knocked o him out de considerable money by appear appear- appear I elY as a punching bag 1 Jias as at a billiard parlor not so O longo long VAd nd saw two men playing and bet bet- o tl of them had no at he would in- in tut after every game ry nto again a man next to me I tk ow who that fellow is Is but Id I'd Ilm the Joe Grim billiards He lIe glutton for lor punishment way the words Joe Grim Boom come to be a sort of synonym for tency under tinder punishment in any sort one time Leach Cross wan wall X f to understand reason f which Crowds nobody would ever r the fights Just to see eee him knocked But he wasn't out So ent and game were vere his efforts that became Just an l popular as he ho bad been unpopular He lie became a n. drawing card Leach Cross really Ivery likeable sincere fellow He HeI quite a lot of money and Is now I lI Swell I understand as all a practising toO lka Il the follower of Leach Cross the famous phrase still cur cur- 1 lint the fIg l game Box fighting I I wandering Into lato this discussion I I Jl drifted from rom the story of my first if J ranee In New York as a promoter I nce N 1 VENTURE IN Dr NEW TORK ht ht 1023 In U. 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