Show THRIVE ON EARLY KNOCKOUTS shown by records that defeat Is test all successful fighters must undergo at start upsets at the outset dint dont count this la is ns as true in the ring as it Is in life A youn gater ter hopeful of becoming a champion despair if it be he meets with a knockout it la to ing the number of champions and top botchers not chera chers who have tasted that bitter form of defeat at tho the outset of their ring careers A glance at the records would seem to prove that a knockout Is a teat test that all successful must undergo bob fitzsimmons was stopped in I 1 fyr rounds by jim hall 4 in n australia before bob camo came to this country kid mccoy went alone for a year and a bait half I 1 before billy Stef fera crowned him in one round young corbett been fighting much longer before be he waa was K 0 od d I 1 it 4 jimmy clabby twice once in two rounds and again in four rounds clabby met disaster a few months after ho he started jack oleary copped him on the chin in the fourth stanza gunboat smith was dropped twice in 1910 jim barry and jack geyer did the trick in nine rounds each carpentier Car the wonderful frenchman made a most discouraging start starl he fie was knocked out three times the first two years mazolar salmon and gloria were bis his conquerors abe attell suffered two knockouts before be he became champion benny denny accomplished the feat in ten rounds in tho the year 1902 and brooklyn tommy sullivan did it in five rounds in 1901 1904 joe gans waa knocked coad by george elbows mcfadden before he be owned any tit title ae gans hit the canvas in the twenty third round |