Show ONE DEFEAT DEFEAT BROKE A BOXERS BOXER'S HEART Good old Joe Goddard Is dead and gone but his memory will live Uve for an indefinite I period in the minds of the fighting fans I i of this country writes Jack OBrien I Goddard was faithful to his friends unto death I da days He Ha t was was' but bit g a brilliant victim i m n. n of t battler battIer the e primrose J in r his early path I that has nas has claimed so many ring generals generals- i I When 11 Goddard came C to o this country ri na hf fr from Australia s he was I In his prime rl and I had made lots of money in the game His arrival was marked with the announcement announcement an- an that he had to bet on j I himself in any battle In one of ot the tho first bouts I witnessed he boxed and o po Joe Jod Butler t t the negro pugilist n t in Philadelphia I an and he was haRed hailed as s a wonder when h he defeated Peter Maher in three rounds at Coney Island There goes the coming coining champion of ot the world was one of ot the popular rel remarks remarks re re- re- re marks when God Goddard lard ard would walk the streets l I in ht the East Bast s But Joe took a long trip through West Vest and It proved his undoing He was stacked up against Denver Ed Smith The match was often referred to as a aJob ajob ajob Job of ot the first water and Goddard was wast the victim c of a conspiracy He was beaten t badly IY and n tg the nJ defeat l tY affected fe d him f terribly His heart was broken He lIe worried so ISO much over the defeat that his powerful physique was shattered Then It was that the bright lights of ot the midnight hour claimed his attention much to his detriment His bank roll faded away like Uke a a. chunk of ot artificial ice placed before a roaring furnace From fighting Goddard fell tell away until he failed absolutely even as a a preliminary attraction but bt his popularity with a certain ring never waned His money belonged to his friends and In the end he sacrificed his bis life Ufe for them also Goddard's existence around Philadelphia Philadel phia became so precarious e a t that he had hg lt ht fc to depend e upon o t the political l ring g for r an existence and when hJ his r. r political political c monitors moni nit id tors told h him t to take e up repeating n at atthe atthe the polls Goddard was there An election was being held In Mer- Mer N. N J. J and Goddard with a anum num number er of ot other ringers was sent to save the day for a certain political boss When Goddard attempted vote to-vote to vote at one booth hooth he lie was ejected and In the free fight tight that followed he was shot down by bya a negro deputy sheriff sherif Poor old Joe lingered on his deathbed with a bullet in his brain for four tour long months and then passed away The booze route will kill anybody but the pugilist is apparently the easiest victim i |