Show Former Champ In Sternest Battle of Car Career PETE HERMAN ON VERGE OF I TOTAL BliNDNESS MAKES ES GALLANT FiGHT FOR SIGHT Injury Which Hampers Career of Noted Boxer Occurs in Charity Bout Passing Vision I Closes Hermans Herman's Career I nv n M- M M I S TEW n 1 MEW 1 ORLIA S s LA 23 23 L IN 11 P Pete iee lr Hermin former fJ nd t champ champion n at o of or the te greatest t right fighte's q 11 U at r pushed pu-hed the leathers Is en- en enraged on raged In the sternest battle bittle o 0 of ins a a battle batUe to prevent present bl bi nd-nc nd nd- nd ne s tor mor more than a H month Ie e has hasI I all ad flat on hi his hiCk Inch with his hs le left 3 II hea liea heal 11 Il v bandaged In three i month it ll rn v m iv be longer th the physician In charge hopes hope tint lb it the sady red vision Ion In v ill hn hio e been en remedied to a large lame e Ca- Ca ex extent tent The Tha sight Ight of the right nelt e ee e eIs Is entirely entirely gone one It Is a battle that would o make a mao man who ho dOls does not possess rote Pete s sIron siron stron Iron nerve nere shudder hudder for when hen th the hood Is removed either the hefe ee e v II be he improved ed or the lson ison ill IJ In all an probability lie he one rone Dut But rte Pete does docs not ln about his lot I IN CIL Y non no 1 The injury which ruined Hr Her Herman's mans man's career as I a n fighter happened ned In n a bout I I was boxing with Gussie L LeF LeFIn Iq In Philadelphia for the benefit of oe the Sold Soldiers len In ind I Sailors tobacco fund said Herman Lewis J 01 cracked me mo In the cic ee I saw tars and nd it tt seemed for a 0 like someone was as as driving Ing a So hot needle through it iVI I r 1 X In In tho excitement of oe th the eon eon- con I test hoe er I soon forgot th the pain and although It hurt me a al great grat deal for Cor some time lime afterward I 11 r I did not consider it an nn thins serious I ous At the Pie end nd of oC 1 month 1 I that It was as not Retting getting any lU and t that my sight was WaB on I 1 consulted Ih the b st qt st- st specialist 1 could find and the ad advised qed etI me nie to let It it go fro for a timi i At At the end nd of or sI sl months thy Ihy tools tok a t cataract from the he rIght C et I ut In instead of helping me I 1 that the thi made me inc pel- pel blind in that ee CC e e 1 I could see sec out of it ft a little before lou o ou In Imagine In hoI Iio how ho I fet ft o 1 I na as just ut getting to the top of nf the Hie ladder and this had to 10 come along I admit It shook in 11 come neT e C BUr II 1 IV 01 K 0 1 ll I I Well w eli 11 boa ho however hoer e er we e 0 r ne r toll on anone one that I had any trouble HI tt i imy my right eve ee e e 1 1 The he blind one onO 1 Jut as good as m mv left Ift on ono With w Ith one oue e 03 e C entirely gone I lost the championship to 10 oe Lynch The night I found him at t Madison Square Garden Gardn the t sas as terrifically thick due to th fact that it waa as raining and Ine lie sl lights acre iero ue closed The rhe res u I as with my impaired vision hn I sat in my lilY cornel cornet I couldn t se ses I Then Then I Jimmy the fly flyweight eIght champion won thi British light eight championship from Jim Higgins ana ane regained m my lightweight tItle from Lynch I As YOU ou I know no I the title to Johnny Buff Butt I m not it a elcher and it doesn't make much mun because I 1 was gOlD going blind so fast in the other othu eye that I 1 couldn t hue hi held hold on to the title titia much longer at the bet best But don t believe e Butt Buff was en c entitled to a draw much leas les the Se en New ew Nework ork ork papers gave me 9 rounds Buff Duff 3 and called ailed 3 even Till CALF 11 Id HIM 1111 KJ F FKR H Some ome time before I don t r n member member when hen hell I got a wallop In the th left ee It didn t bother bolher m rue enough to remember who gave m me methe mothe the crack or v hen hell But that start stan stand started stan stan-ed ed d that eye going bad I 1 kept ge get get- getting tins gel ting worse orse and worse On April 24 1922 I 1 fought my last fight tight In Boston with Ry Roy RoyMoore RoyMoore Moore and I missed ed so many tm s the people thought we e were stall stall- stalling stalling ing mg and the referee threatened tu Sc throw II us out of ot the ring ringI I I had tried to hide my Infirmity ty all along and there I was as struggling I I gling the best I could to keep my I secret from c everybody er bod and they thought I was as a faker It was th the tha I toughest experience nce of ot my life I If It Herman r recovers covers the sight ot or othis othis his right eve e e he ho may become otI a I manager of oe a string of ot boxers or a tight promoter But BUS as roe for bOXIng he his hUI put on the gloves glo for tn th last time His us Boston bout wita I Rov Moore convinced him of that |