The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1922, Page 15

Copyright, 1922, (Nbw York Evening World) by Press Publishing C Frederick Kk, “Kid" Wedge. graduate student at Harvard University. formerly lumberjack rough and tumble serapper and later ving puzilist, udmits that he wasn't a wonderful boxer, He couldn't be trained. He thought he knew more than the trainer. His rugged strength equipped him to take beatings though he stood up against some good men, He fought Clarence English, who had a record of tiro draws with Rottling Nelson, and ion in twenty rounds at Hot Springs, Ark, and stopped Abdul the Turk, Nelson's trainer, in two rounds, He admits plenty of losing contests in a total score of more than sixty. In the following chapter of his autobiography Wedge tells the story of his first ring fight. CHAPTER Ill. fi THEY TRY TO TRAIN WEDGE AND HE ISN'T THE TRAINING KIND. By Frederick R. (Kid) Wedge LL I knew in those days about | fighting was to stop the punches 1 blocked them ever went past | with my face. all that way. If a me I can’t remember. The first thing Bill said to me in the training line was, “Every morning you'll have to take some road work.” “What's road work?” I asked. “Why, you go out and run a few) mites for your wind.” ‘Say,’ I replied, “is this going to be a foot race or a figiit?”’ In the afternoon Danicis hired Syracuse Billy Moore, a Clever old-| time boxer, to teach me some of the| fine points of the game. Billy was well qualified to teach me if I had only been wise enough to know I needed instruction, Moore had fought Joe Gans and “Elbows” McFadden when those fighters were in their prime. At the end of two weeks Moore said, ‘I can’t teach him anything. He’s got a ten thousand dollar arm and a five cent head. Maybe if he goes in and gets a good beating he'll want to learn some things. Just now he thinks he can beat anybody in the world without any trainin: MATCHED WITH AN EXPER- ENCED PUGILIST. Bill matched me with Chicago Glenn, who had had ten years’ ex ence in the prize ring. He wasn’t a champion but he didn’t have to be to beat me. But I didn’t know that when I signed up. ‘The night of the fiz ack way of encouragement. Now you can't beat e advised. “Tle's too ¢ snows too much to go in and take a beating © stay the ten rounds and ke i setting knocked out. When he s fellow." ever. He All youeap do is and y ‘on it’s my fault.” A good mar chance to know awake. medical opinion about the effect out of the way. RIZE RING * HARVARD How I fought My We Lumber Camp fea College Degree FREDERICK R. (Ki) WEDGE. neither was T hurting him for rt] wasn't hitting him. | All the time he is dancing around so [can't hit him, Kvery time I set to hit him he just happens to step ont of the way. ‘Talk about your luck. 1 wish [had him in the back room with the door locked. He wouldn't be dancing uround talking to me this way. Once in a while he shoots in a tight. It doesn’t hurt, How can it with these big pillows on our hands? | from Fhe knocks you down, tell you to get up. “Say. L replied, “you don't think that skinny Jew with an Irish mon- stay down til 1 aker can knock me qown? Wit! “STAY DOWN” AND “GET UP” He'll be the one, they'l) be telling to get up and stay down,”’ INSTRUCTION. Just then the r ee called us to fourth round—The gong rings and the centre of the ring called instructions. Jack Gill was going to referee and he never did like me anyway. I saw he | Cain going out sure I'l hit him, But f don't, The floor or something hits me. [hear Bill yelling ‘Stay down." | The retevee isSewinging his hand up| for wt World. T atill ked to fight and ex- bring her enemies, much larger tablee preted to stay with the mame till 1 can be furnished teh had won the welterweight champion Aside (rom theatrical acts, furnishes ship of the world. ‘When 1 was too |t! rough Monr ldateia of the Friars ate Went, Toe Club, the feat will be an expose 8 Meant to bi a salOON extraordinary--the secrets of — soviw’ and use my name as a drawing catd work by « retired social worker—amd x for the booze business, Seventy ring syihposi of unemployment, “What battles was the score of my fighting Shall W With Our ex-Bartenders?” years. THEN I MET HER. by halysis, (To Be Continued To-Morrow.) Rub on Sore Throat > MULRY CLUB’S ROAST. Yearly Fanction Will Have Odd Features as Usual. ‘The Mulry Club of the Archdiocese of New York will have its annual gridiron feast to-morrow night at the Aldine Club, ‘The secret has been well guarded, Musterole at your dru Musterole relieves sore throat quickly. Made with oil of mustar white ointment that wil blister like the vid-fashioned mustard | | plaster. it is a clean, not burn or Just spread it on with your fingers. dved lumberjacke fi the opera nouse to see the! mpion fight Ch introduced me as “the pride of the North Woods.” If the Nort Woods ever had any pride they los: | t that night Billy gave me some instructions by “It’s not the mule’s fault” - Blame for injury depends on how much chance the victim had to make himself safe. “The first time a mule kicks me,”’ said a wise man, “‘it’s the mule’s fault. If it happens again, ing within kicking distance of tea or coffee, who have had a They have learned that tea or coffee at night keeps them They know it whips up the nerves. They know what ment in tea and coffee upon the nervous system—and how indi- gestion, headaches, high blood pressure and various ills so often follow the use of tea or cofiee. Knowing this, right away I had two Jacks to beat. |and down and reciting his arithmetic }bUt everybody knows about it now, | The referee Jack said: ‘This con-| lesson, Pretty soon Bill yells, “Get | ven a reporter for The World sleuthed test’? (he didn’t say fight) “is going| I get up and am sure mad. But |!t out | to be governed by Marquis of Queens-| getting mad don't seem to do me any, All attending are expected to don berry rules."" |good. The madder [ get the more [aprons and do their own roasting to the T demurred until the rules were ex-| miss him and the harder he hits me.! motto, “Burn ‘Em in Oil.” ‘The invitee plained to me Tam stopping them all now, I don’t| 1 - ‘ Mer iccatene dak uiNews anlleieee ie ks informed that if she wants to you (wo understand the rules, see thal! Fifth, sixth, seventh rounds—al, PIMs her friends, she can reserve tables you obey them or UN disqualify ths! just the same, ‘Bill is yelling, for six, ejght of ten; tt she wants to man on a foul and he'll lose the fight. |qown! Stay down! you big stiff Take your corners."’ et up! Get up! WEDGE’S DEBUT AS A RING he yelled “Stay down!" “Get FIGHTER. This is the story of my first fight as I recall it: The gong sounds. I rush over to a "s r, swinging ith bott , Hone oreo’ fed him. When 1! Eighth round — Glenn's | punches ; _|don't seem to be so strong but I'm not | Bally Lee Te SE eis tier wa |pasiak any luck hitting him yet. I'm| still swinging and missing as usual. I keep on missing him for three} Ninth round—The gong rings. | minutes. Just before the gong rang| start to gct up frém my chair. A big at the end of the first round I tell| brown thing comes rolling toward my him: “You're the luckiest guy in the corner. From a thousand lumber- world. If I had your luck I wouldn't! jacks a yell goes up and they are say- come from Chicago to fight up here|ing, “Wedge wins!" , Bill says I win in the woods. I'd own part of Chica-| too, I don’t understand it. so and all of Lake Michigan." He said, “This ain't luck, brains.” y ‘The gong rings, otherwise 1 would, have hit him for that. | “Say, Bill, you are a devil of a! THINKS THE CHICAGO FELLOW |. nocer to keep me in with that Chi- 18 AFRAID. |cago fellow eight long rounds when ‘The second round he kind of dances! you could have gone down to Rear- toward me like he was in'a dance hall. | don's drug store and bought e sponge I swing, but he’s lucky again. Just] for 10 cents. ets under my arm. He puts both arms around me. 1 say, ‘‘This ain't no loving match—this is supposed to be a fight." ‘Then he gives out one of those stage whispers so everybody round the ring can hear: "Oh, I'll knock you out, only first I've got to give these birds that’s paid their coin to this thing a little run jo) their money.” “Hey! Knotk me out?" I'm begin- ning to get mad but [ haven't hit him yet. | way up!" seventeen times. But I'll have | | to take his word for that. WEDGE WINS THE BATTLE sat <Zatt™ | OPPENHEIM. GLUNS & G ing against the ropes on the other side of the ring laughing at me. Special for “Say, Bill, how could I win when I} didn’t hit him?" Bil it's | says, “Didn't you see that! in the ring, That means you | A doctor is called to examine Glenn | and tells the crowd that Glenn has! | broken his right hand on my jaw. ; Some one yells, “Why don't you |examine Wedge's head? | The doctor replied, “No use ex-| amjning that lumberjack’s head. 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