Show kT C 1 Nursing Opponent for r Future Use Is Boxers Boxer's Old Trick By Ed W. W Smith By Dy Special New News Service CHICAGO March l 17 Very Very often orten tales I Iare are aro heard of or how bow this boxer or that one saves an opponent In lii the tIle ring for tor fu future futuro rUe fu- turo ture use It i Is known that good opponents who can call draw well are sometimes mighty scarce and for tor this reason when a a. champion cham pion finds one he is often accused d of or saving him for tor future use In some other part of or the countr country This It was claimed 1 was dH a favorite ta trick of Abo Abe Attell I Fred ed Welsh vo WD several times charged with th the tho name mame system but Fred himself says aS a'S this so o He claimed always to be doln doing the best beet he could In the ring He lie related a quaint qua little yarn one ono day lay to Illustrate how dangerous It Is to take too much for tor granted ranted In tho the ring It shows too tho the futility utility of or saving an opponent 0 5 This ThIH In Is the yarn of or a man who grew two cUs as almo almost t overnight ht Fred said Mid One lime lIne I met up In N New w En England a ayoung ayoung young fellow named Frankie McGuire Ho iro was vas a a. sprIghtly young thing of about 13 ISS pounds and could box r fairly welL Ho lie was n IL good drawing card around his bin homo home town tonn and anil we wc had a n nice ho house e. e 1 J shaded him all right and we wo got some Koine nice notices In tho the papers of or that place I S S SA S A few months later Harry Pollok got gotan gotan gotan an offer orter to box somebody In Harrisburg Pa Fa Tho The promoter asked If it wo we could suggest eat g-eat an opponent but as tho money offered was small renall wo could think of or nobody nobody no no- body who would take II IL Finally I 1 re remembered s-c- s and tol told Pollok Tho The match was made all right nn and the morning of ot the contest v we e landed In Harrisburg When hen we wo got off orr the tho train and andere were ere waiting for tor a cab to go to tho the hotel a a. strapping young fellow tellow in Lu a sweater breezed up and gave ga us a cheery greeting Hello Fred Ired red and Hello Harry ho lie said shook hands and chatted chatted chat chat- ted tell until the cab came up Then ho holett left lett us S S SI S I Whoa that fellow tellow both wo we asked when wo we got sot Into tho cab We Ve both pleaded I Ignorance and then forgot about It When I entered tho the ring that night lo 10 and behold thorn thero In tho tIme other corner was waR our friend nd of or tilt the railroad road station station- r MeGuire now grown rown Into a n full tull sized d middle weight Ho Un was j a n. strap strap- on page 1 4 I NURSING Continued from fr-cm f nago St 3 ping big fellow and looked hea heavy enough h to fight tight Jack Dillon 5 S e Toll Pollok ok and T I took looked d a at t each other othor in ina ina a way Th There rG ws was WI no out for u us Uti since we had picked him ourselves Luckily the bout was waa only six rounds and I 1 worried orrl through It Il But he was big enough to eat al me lie He had n a wallop too and I had a a. b bud bad evening generally That Th t cur cured d me of oC picking my mr own op- op n nt Z |