Show FIGHTER EX-FIGHTER EX IS SICK OLD MAN But Im I'm Not Nuts Cries Joe Walcott Walcot in Going to Psychopathic Ward NEW YORK Aug 22 UP UP-oe UP Joe UP-Joe Joe Walcott Walot the Barbados demon who wore the tle welterweight crown thirty years ago is i a sick old man today but he hc wants the world to know that hes he's not nuts nut The years have battered Joes Joe's Jos Jo's blue steel body into a bundle of skin and bones and at 60 the chap who fought em all al from heavyweights heavyweight down is broke and andin the psychopathic ward of hospital hopital He collapsed yesterday at the home hoe of his hi brother a negro iceman Physicians reported Walcott Walcot suffering suter suffer suffer- ing lag from hardening of 01 the arteries arterie and senile senie psychosis Joe Jo doesn't mind being bing in the hospital but hes he's fighting fighting fight fight- ing mad about being placed in the ward MY MINDS MIND'S lINDS lIND'S CLEAR I dont don't belong here he corn com cm I fainted on the steps at my home and now they've shoved me rae meIn mein in with wih the te nuts Im I'm Im sick and weak and maybe mayb old but my minds mind's as clear as a a bell bel Im I'm Im not nuts honest honest Walcott came to the United States from Barbados in 1892 In Ia 1901 he hewon hewon hewon won the welterweight title tte from Ruble Ferris Ferns Fern and lost it i to the Dixie Kid in 1903 1803 While champion he fought everybody from heavyweight to lightweight He quit the ring in 1908 and ad has been ben working at various jobs since then I I saved my money for my old age he said at the hospital But I never figured Id I'd Id live lve so long iEA HEAVIES IF At the peak of his form Joe took tok on lightweights to heavyweights heavyweight although although al al- al though he himself himel tipped the beams beam at no more than pounds pound He found the big fellows easy but bul often ofen had trouble with wih men of his h own weight notably Kid Lavigne Kid Carter Cartr Tommy West and Mysterious Billy Smith Most notable of his hi feats feat were his hi round one knockout of Dan Creedon Credon redoubtable Australian and hi h knockout In i seven rounds round of Joe the light heavyweight who gave Jim Corbett such a scrap for 28 rounds round He hurled hurle many chal lenges at Corbett Tom Sharkey and Jim Ji Jeffries Jefres but was wa not accepted |