Show SAY lAT LATE JEM MACE j HAD AD A YEllOW I STREAK Jem Maco one of th the greatest and cleverest ceveret in the long line lie Of heavyweight ChiP champions He was t then died d in I seven his eightieth years fl g ago year ca and until within ten years o of of t is' Ills death death had been active in the ring During his ex cx- e- e tended career carer as a champion nobody ever had hd occasion to question queston Jems Jem's gameness gameness game game- ness yet in his hs early days as a n boxer ho lie appeared to have a welt well wel developed yel low streak As a boy he was a gypsy violinist traveling about front from was one gps fair far to another Boxing was ws then ono one of the principal features of English fairs and Jem took naturally to the game but his artistic temperament and antI samei sensitive Ive and imaginative tive tv nature made him shrink shrin from imagna- imagna punIshment punishment pun pun- with wih th the the- the result that crowds crowds I often him Jeered and ad called him a cow cow- ard ant cow coward Most of ot Jems Jem's opponents were much larger than himself and he he- wa was able to defeat them only ly y developing science generalship and cleverness beyond anything any any- thing ever ver seen In the ring Continuous boxing developed his courage couras and ad in the courso course of time Jem Jern bece became became- a n veritable lon lion and knew not the name of fear The man mn who had been called caled a coward became became be be- came the hero of ot many man gruelling battes b- b and ad he won and held may the title tte against all comers corel for a long period of years al In all al he ho was the victor in over bout and nearl nearly all nU o of 0 them then w were re fought under the old slaughter house house- rules He lie Io retired undefeated He lie le made madea a fortune In the ring and on the tho s age b but t he was too kind lend hearted hearte to keep it Anybody could work worl on his sympathy i. i and anti he ho was ws champion easy mark as well wel as a a champion boxer Ills His admirers gave him a a. farm on which to spend his declining years but he lie could not stay sty away from the bright lights of the city To the last ho de re- re his r- r youthful fondness for the fiddle and ho was va a really realy good pla player er eron on that instrument |