| Show URT AIN RINGS DOWN III WN ON WALKER j lame awe Mickey Midey hocked Out fine Career fly Br PAUL GALLICO 4 sp t to The flie T Telegram r 1 the For 1 ORK Edward NEV NESy earS or more t in 15 Y years as so o stunned by Walker yer chae punches ch received in jn a prize fight light that he lay on the J canvas in darkness i in Philadelphia the thew w night before last For the first time s since nce he has been fighting the bravest bray bra vest v- v est heart in m the prize fighting busi business business bus bus- iness was unable to i receive a message y of help from his brain and hoist himself to his feet facing his foe K Valler if w L that Paul PIrI Piri Pir- Pir middleweight t te fro from in Cleveland rn i two punches on the chin ching g eleventh round o of their fight I Invention C hall hail and Edward counted out out- Ibi jel was falter h d been stopped be be- knocked bet bat nobody ever f Lire rt ut Some of the best heavy heavy- in the country have nave badh had bad hadr h r w lol t Edward Michaels Michael's ls l's chin IWI bringing him down and never w elf bed a pound more bin titu lit H Dale valets unless he be was hoc hog fat 1 finally put him Wit FInh Mickey 1 Walker And fi goodbye to one of he Ibe Ie ring men that ever Dna 1 Of ot t course ourse our he fought too long He uld have e stopped long ago fakers faker's es s 's frame and head over that thai of years when he battled Md all the pounding and buffet- buffet il flat any human could stand Brave to p CO quickly in the ring and take than cowards e pun punishment r F W t. t Close to Disaster heart sent him into more m aches hes and brought him closer to sister aister ster probably than any fighter of i present t present era era- When Mike was 1 locked down down and and they knocked him n aplenty he got up turned that mu mug of his toward the eyed je-eyed figure of his enemy and liked into the fire where it was Most Mosto of the time he recovered d won Walkers Walker's record is simply amazing e fought all of the topnotch men in Lt fee c classes cs welterweight middle middle- sight and heavyweight hea He became champion on in the first two ies and nd but ut for a quirk of ti time timed ne d fate he might have been heavy- heavy of the world as well er spite of a decision that was m as a. a draw Walker fought and ked eked J Jack k Sharkey not long Ing before arkey y became heavyweight cham cham- o ilof the world True roe there were stories that thal rey had held back but no one oner oved r proved oved it Had Sharkey been i Ws champion champon that night as he might it-might have been had he Ie e not noti i led d d Sch Jing in their first fight little New Jersey Irish w Mild have bave given i en just a little more of ol heart and might have at way with the heavyweight w i Was Wis Great Boxer m Why 1 did Walker last so long Beart Be Be- art em ein in addition to being a powerful Ker feu he be w was s a first class boxer lone doll of the most deceptive fighters d hardest of boxers to hit hit- hitHe He was blocker with his big powerful FlU na ld many a lethal punch rolled U ha shoulders upper arms neck d forearms Added to this he had launch weh chin ehin set firmly on his neck t d. dior for tor the first years of his fighting up punches like a blotter Ie le IeVa was Va the worst gymnasium mer anyone ayone ever oversaw saw and regularly 1 decision to his sparring partners his hii practice matches But once he in heWed Wed into the ring everything ire in ir ina a ill nerves eyes muscles and d fight fight- Instinct seemed teemed to be stepped up UI J M e fifty per cent U I. I wilt will never forget forret hl J train f for r the Sharkey J a thus this little JUHe man for the H be he won would absorb from his wt t hard pound op op- went But Bat When hen the bell rang ranc hr r the combat he be waded in J punches slipped Upped off oil his hish aud Sharkey h y was the one t The little fellow slid n ider hi his lead and hooked booked his to t. the body y and nd whipped Chipped 8 P PO Io O the chin He rave gave a of trouble e every Itt k C Ls I i sImply Imply amazing He crt Collma Colima and d Sailor Jock Malone and Soldier and Charley Zer I In his hia l later years ear ea he met r as Max Max mand d Lou Brouillard He Heem ot em all aU but he beat most and compiled probably one t tn re records cords ever for quan quan- quality of oC me men he fought th IS' IS concludes th these there e pieces I pe that the uc t fighter IL tW that he can no longer ft |
