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Show ' ' . . i j-'., ,- . ptttUTTmyarCaTTiBa"T5edtll' ; treatiown f Terry McQoveru, the for-xaex for-xaex lltt-weft duunpion tmgili wtcia benet took place at the Madlaon Cauaia Gajdea'lut.-weeJc, irogiests. aome ;. lnterestta compariaons, vtlcH no tne li 'better fitted . to make .than Prof. ; "Hike" Bonoraa, for many years the v ; flstle teacher ; and wrectling mat of ' .Presiaent Soosrrelt. The latter started ; -lif a wita a.- precarioaj phyainne, but ; firm will power and moral stamina, and Craw cp strong taan. HcOorern, bodl-i bodl-i ly, was aUttle giant from birth, but ; tad no mental balance wheel to steady ,iz3?&l so wnt to pieces before reach-. reach-. : lai his prime. BY mcaLELJ. DONOVAN, . . . r. i oxlng Xnatrnctor New York Athletic ' r'j-V . Clnb. v Poor Terry Mc Govern! It is too bad he Is ending np as be la. Bat I am not greatly aorprlaed, for Z bad a talk once witn Dr. James E. KeHy, who is my ; family physician. He met McOovern . . -v ' ' 'v six years ago, wnen be" was ou bis way 4o the Buffalo expoeitiop, and Dr. Sally told .ne then that Terry's mind w, as go-lag. go-lag. . ,1 w rather snrprlsed . at tho time, but the doctor wis right. ' -r -1 met McOovern 'after be had been In the ring about a year, but long before that Mai Charlie Burke, the press agent - for Buffalo .Bill's shew,- which was eamped down near Fort Hamilton, said to me one day: ."Mike, we've got a wonder down at camp. - He's a young waiter by the name ox McOovern, and heean nek the. best man- we've got around the place. Why, be won't take, any back eeJk from the biggest, toughest tough-est Westerner in the show, I tell yon he is a comer." .And yon see, Charlie was right, too. The punishment he took in the ring is largely responsible for hie present condition, I believe. You see. he bad his head hit so often that he began to suffer from brain jar, and that, together, togeth-er, possibly, with too much of life on "the Great White Way," wrecked him body sad mind. Terry never waa a very strong-willed chap. It's too bad, too, for he bad all the physical makeup that a fighter conld ask for, but he hadn't the judgment, and often seemed to absolutely lose control of himself. That waa his bad feature. But he was a little wonder, at that, and President Roosevelt rather admired him for his cleverness as a fi filter and his' game-nesa. game-nesa. I did not know President Booeevelt when he waa a young man, but I under stand that he waa a weak boy physically. physical-ly. He had, however, the good fortune of being born with a fondness for outdoor out-door sports, and took to them like a duck takes to water. Had he been a boy who preferred a quiet life in the house, one who bent over a table read-, ins; or writing all the time, he might still have been a weakling. President Roosevelt is anything but a weakling today, however. He is one of the healthiest, strongest men in America, and aa hard A iron. Why, he has a muscular development that would amare you. His chest isvery broad and arched, and if you rub your hand op against it, it feels like rubbing aandpa-, per. There is no discount on our President's Presi-dent's physical makeup, or his mental, either. |