Show Bullet in His Right Fist Ended Joe Walcott's Walcot's Career in Ring It I is eleven years s since Joe Joa Walcott the Black Demon of ot Barbadoes passed In il his checks as a a- fighter The former forer champion of the welterweights welter weights who was one of the tho greatest fighters of al all time engaged in his last important ring battle batte on November 29 1906 when when- when he fought Honey Mellody I The ex-demon ex was pounded all over the al ring and was Vas was at at- last brought to realize 1 he ho was all al in as a fighter He lie le was then thed in m his thirty fifth thirty year but It i w was s not not age that tha ended eded his v pugilistic career but buta but buta a bullet bulet N i Like most darkles darkies Walcott was fond of sporting Ia a gun One night wa he he was showing off of at a cance dance and un an l accidentally sent a bullet bulet through his trusty right the right the list fist lat that had won him over a hundred battles battes After that he was a one-handed one fighter and naturally he couldn't last lat nataly Joe Jo was born i in British Guiana Guana in 1872 but later moved to the tho neighboring West Vest Indian island of Barbadoes As a youth he lie shipped as cabin boy in a schooner and left lef her at nt Bost Boston n. n There ho worked at various Jobs and event eventually aly became the human punching bag hag in a gym At first his shape shape shape-he he was almost as as- wide as he was tall was tall was tal-was was a source of amusement amuse amuse- ment but in a little while Joe picked up some somE of the points of tIle the boxing game and began besan slamming in punches in in- ina a I manner that wiped the tho smile smie off the faces faceR or ot of his Ms antagonists He soon developed into a great boXer and anit anla a classy wrestler an and Tom added Walcott wrester t to hi his I stable which included George Dixon tho the won wonderful erful little colored boxer In 1801 1901 Walcott Wa cott met Rube rube Ferns Fernl the tho welterweight welterweight welter welter- I weight champion at KL Ft 11 I Erie and andI knocked out the farmer in re the fifth I round annexing annexing the title tte Rube hRdI had reached tl th tup top of the tho welterweight heap heal I only a a. few months before b by defeating Matty tty Mathews thew at onto Walcott never Insisted his hi opponent make an any specified weight The bigger they are the harder they tall fall was ws Joes Joe's motto Ho Te io whipped Joe the clever heavyweight heavyweight- and challenged Jim Jeffries Tom Ton Sharkey Jim Jun Corbett and other othel top top- When he lie went over to England England England En En- gland In 1902 to take part In the coronation corona corona- tion ton boxing festival he offered to bet he could whip any English heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight but none of them accepted tho the offer |