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Show " m& mi wai Of J3E COSTER Hamilton, ths porting edttnr of the New Orleans Item, sseina to think aw-fullv aw-fullv nll of Joe Coster, t'hatlev Hrey a new feather weight. Hlght after the "os-ler-L'onley bout "Ham" had tia (ollowlng in aa- aoout the work t t'nsier: "If .Ism Coaler ever learns to use Ms riant hand with any of the facility with which he uaen his Ifft. he may be reasonably reason-ably sure of succeeding; Aire At tell aa the f alitor welKitt ha;non. "The little lad of Palermo parentage eleldetf that left with idling effect Sunday. Sun-day. He didn't show anything like a k imrknu t w a I lop, hut he did n t t ry. 1 1 had 'oniey hcten so far Iti every round t hat it would have been foolish for him i-i have tried to waste himself tr'ng to knock nul that stalwart eon of Kenosha. Ke-nosha. Conlev Is about aa Immune to a knockout punch Bat Nelson In hla jlniy days. "Joe Is yet a bit areen in ba picked aa the winner over At(e thia yar. That la. if Abe haa much of hla old rraftl-iiea rraftl-iiea left, and that a one thing the Hebrew will alwaya have with him even after Jus ahillty tn hit haa forsakn him and after hts now soft handa have become too weak to atarid the strain of a hard blow thehtrd them. "For natural advantagea. though. Coa-ir Coa-ir ihinM little hrLsiiiei- than anv lit- tie man who haa been in a local rtng In a long time, and. aa .rimmte Juliuson appears ap-pears to he right there with the man-a man-a atrial hralna and knnsi that he haa a winning meal ti ket undr hia wing, you may looh or rapid improvement in the New York boy. "Sunday 'a waa Coster e flrat twenty-round twenty-round hout. and hla victory over a lad of Conley'a reputation and ability la aure to Instill enough confidence In him to Swnd him Into a battle alth a couple of Attella. They aey Joe was nervoua and frightened In the first rounds of his tstv round go with Attell last January, but JfttMssWa hn he found that he could land en the clereet man tn the ring he gained confidence, con-fidence, and toward the end of the bout waa giving Attell th time of his life. Imagine, then, the effect that his splen-v splen-v did triumph of ffunrtay will have on him. ' "It la a little unfair to aay that Ceater . ia a better man than Oouton. Coster can not make roulon'a weight. His 1 -2 pound not only glvee him weight, hut height and rest h, over Conlon. Those advantage ad-vantage fitted him better for a bout with the rushing and awlnglng Conley. "Prankle should have been at his best at the etart. Hia Injured wrist, though still swollen, had not given htm trouble In hia, training bout a with heavy bovs. He told me onlv a few days ago that the a nil n tared bone had knitted and that hla wriat. thou ah out of proportion In aise, could stand just aa much of a blow as ' aver. There can be no come baf k fiom him In the matter of weight. lie never dfd have to go helow 1: or 1-1 In hla training, and if he trained prop-erlv prop-erlv he ahould have been at hla very beSt at that weight. Conlev la dnlng himself an injustice any time- be fights at anything over 121 or below 1!. He may eventually grow Into the liaht weiamt rlaee. but hia small legs will I wave enable en-able him to have a look in at the feather fea-ther weight division.' |