Show FOOTBALL TOO ROUGH pugilists dodge gridiron game because too strenuous average fighter would sooner face pack of fallen angels than take any part in the popular col lege pastime if you want to get a fighter s goat just ask him to help out some team in a football game said bug dug slattery to a party of friends the other day writes walter C kelly in the cleveland leader how hows s that bug dug don dont t the aritt artists like the gentle gridiron pas time asked harry L davis who is an enthusiast on all branches of clean sport the average pugilist would soon r face a pack of fallen angels than tale talie part in a football contest answered d slattery the professional fighter ter has a horror of the strenuous college g sport he does not like the roughing aig and the ter terrific rifle bumps that the gladi acors of the gridiron are so accas tomed to A fighter likes to have a single opponent and he wants him in such a position that he can keep his eyes upon him all the time he dis J likes to have a king upset him from behind and then have a dozen or more other chaps stamp all over him and wipe up the mud with his nomy they brought a big fighter to but talo falo a few years ago to play against agam t the Oak dales the manager of the vis biting team thought his fighter could take care of anything they would place opposite him in the game an ani I 1 he went in there with the express de termination to knock out his man but he counted without his host the game had not gone the first half before the pugilist was being carried off to the side lines by his friends he was a sorry looking specimen and so sore about the body that he did not leave his room for a few days that guy hever never tried the college sport again I 1 remember some years ago when the detroit A C brought a team hera here to play against t the C A C they brought a fighter named mcgee wibb them it was to be his job to put sport donnelly the C A C captain out of commission donnelly who was a great football genius and a fighter as well was put wise to mr mcgee a intentions and he watched the D A C slugger closely along about the lat ter part of the first period there was a scrimmage near nedr the grand stand and when the smoke cleared away mcgee remained prostrate on the sod while sport was in his position inno bently chewing his finger nails I 1 guess the fighters were never known to make a success at foot football barr said doctor kaz they do not under stand the game in the first place nev er having been beef trained to that sort of thing football is a college game and t res a different sort of tutoring altogether to develop players than what s given the pugilistic gentry then too it requires a different sort of pluck to that shown in engage ments football is mile much i more strena ous and far more dangerous than fighting in the ring the gridiron hero is more daring and reckless than his pugilist brother and the football man 1 is obliged to train harder and to suffer more hardships he needs more moral courage than the fighter EDDIE GILLETTE TTE 0 I 1 i N v one of the most popular players on oil the university of wisconsin football team and who la is noted for his long and spectacular runs |