| Show lOiI Y IX l LIS r Tim Tho ami of Terry Terry McGovern the pugilist marvel of the day ay silent last week In St SI Louis says an exchange lie He was busy bUlY throughout tIme week training In the thea day a time for his fight with Joe Bent stein at Louisville and amid playing to packed houses at night In cite olle or of the local 1011 lh theaters td t e Is only 20 O years ears old Ills 1111 rise to prominence as a boxer has hal been phenomenal Lese than two years ago he was unknown outside of n a limited circle In Greater New York while today he occupies a position In pugilistic circles second In Importance to nobody not even oen the heay champion Jim Jeff rice Terry Is the undisputed bantam feather and Ind lightweight champion Ills first fint fight ot of importance was with George dunroe lii In August 1310 before the Cone Coney Island club McGovern won In rounds Since then harry Hury Forbes Forbell Johnny PedlAr Palmer George rge Dixon Eddie Santry and I rank Frank lIme Erne the lightweight have Kane gone down before him In the ring last were more than The Thereat great reat III lIttle tie lighter has quite a L business head on his bill shoulders and has saved 1811 the biggest portion of the fortune that thaI has bas corne caine to him since he achieved fame as a boxer lie He has a swell sell saloon In Brooklyn from whIch he derives a 11 steady In conic a and h his earnings rn as an a actor r on the road this season lenlon will net nel him big money McGovern Is a young oung man or of Perfect habits habit ne lie does doell not drink chew or smoke and ami is 19 devoted to his hie young wife and baby 00 boy who according to his hili dad Is 11 a chi chip ort off the ol old block which moons means that lie he will develop delop Into II a great boxer when he grows rows up Ten years er ago Terry McGovern was 1 a poor newsboy an and bootblack In Brook Drook Brooklyn lyn In lie WM was bright ambItious And plucky and when boxing became the fad In Gotham Cotham the little Brooklyn boot bool bootblack black took tock to the game gme like a young dunk to water lie He took tonk A le lesson on In his hili life Ire All he knows a about the came to him naturally aided b blIn by lIn tant practice with the mitts Whenever hl he hd had an idle moment or two he invariably spent th time x xIng xing Ing with boyhood companions Athletic clubs club were thicker then than fleas In Nfl New Jersey Brooklyn lin New NewYork York while the norton horton boxing la law was ae aeIn In force When Terry got clever enough to tr try his hili hand In the roped rOIled erena hp h had hl no securing e a 11 chan chane u as the box boxIng boxing Ing clubs were only too eager euer to get talent for tor theIr entertainments Early In his hll career all as n a lighter Mc McGovern fo Govern attached himself to Sam harrIs his present manager harrIs hits made all hie It matches matchu and attends to all hi his 1 financial affairs harris Is planning 1 a trip abroad for next spring lie will take Terry over to tight Ben Jordan tIme lIe featherweIght champion ot of England Jordan III bi the lad who over hr here to meet Eddie Sentry anti and anda Was a knocked out by the lever dever Chica goami alter after one of oC the Prettiest fights ever ler In iii New Nel York While on the theother theother other lillI aide of the big pond McGovern ma may all also take Pedlar Palmer on for tor another tight light Speaking Of the nurn erous boys bon h he had fought and whIpped McGovern IA Joe Bernstein whom I meet at next wt eok k gave inc rne about till the hardest fight I over eer ha hail W We went rounds and Joe kept me bUll durin during eer every fir tt the lon longest eel go 00 ot of rny my entire rIng career Of course coune he ha had a big pull In the weights but butI I W was II well 11 aware of at the handicap he had over oler m me In thi respect when In I Imade made the match TN The nut next tune time we meet I hope to win In from Crom him In much order gave gae m me quite a alIght tight lIght The boxer hal had nil nh kinds ot of fight In him th the night we hooked up Con Considering the pace he he has gone during hIs hi long career as II a cham champion pion I consider him one of nf tIn greatest tI fighters that ever eer opposed me In the roped cIrcle Irele Pedlar Pe lar Palmer did not last lut enough h to give me an idea Ide ot of his hi meal merit as ae n tighter fishter I was ILl lurk lucky to get In a good punch on hIm before our tight was 18 well ell un under er way and he went out In jig time lime How Jockeys It It If you ou rId with your head down that thatIs Is to SI say bent bont slightly so that th the wInd does not beat right on to your face act you ou can enn breathe easily bUt if IC you ou hold your our mouth wide open and let the air heat beat right In your our face then you ou luna have great In breathIng and If time the race Is a long one you wilt will become exhausted by the end of th the So Ml said n a well known Jockey jocke when ques que questioned on the subject ot of what his hie sin sen were when riding In a race A race on a good bor horse I run In about 1 30 A mile II ip 1 40 is 18 at the rate of 16 6 miles nn an hour so you ou see a 11 race horse horH travels at train speed It you OU want to know ho how It feels to togo togo go through the air It at race horse lI speed just han hang your head hend out of tL a railway carriage window turning Your our face to towArd toward wArd the Wa IL the train is II traveling At the same time imagine that you ou are sitting In a saddle and have to hold on to your our horse anti and JUl guide e him on onto onto to victory Ir if possIble keeping him from being run down own or Interfered with It Js is no easy task to rIde a horse In II a race The Jockey Jocke must have hae all hi his wits about him lie He does have much time to think ho how he feels When hen ridIng In A race down the home stretch I forget torget except that I roust strain every nerve to pass pan the other hor horses es no thought is II then gIven to the plaUdits front from the Grand stand |
