“No One Can Take Em When They Come
Too Hardy' Sammie Mandell Asserts,
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And Farrell Declares That He's Right
By HENRY L. FARREL.
NEW YORK, Mar. 26.—Many times you hear it said of a boxer
—“He's not game. He can't take it." Lack of gameness and the
inability to take punishment are frequently associated and gener
ally confused. There are many of the stoutest hearts that beat un
der chins that can't take a punch.
When Sammy Mandell the champion lightweight, was training
for his recent bout with Sid Terris, a tout of the type that can be
seen whispering words of heavy advice around any gymnasium and
approached him and gave him this information:
“He can't take it. He'll step back. He's not game."
Mandell didn't pay attention to the tip from the volunteer in
former. “I'll never believe that about anyone. Nobody can take
it when they come over hard enough," he said, when discussing
it later.
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Farmer Lodge, a heavyweight who
looked big enough to whip a pair of
ordinary fighters, but he was rated
as one of the leading divers in the
ring. A diver, in the parlance of the
ring, is a fighter who lacks the
courage to take punishment and who
looks for soft spots on the floor
to take a fall for the count. This
same Farmer Lodge was one of the
heroes of the A. E. F. He dis
tinguished himself by capturing a
German machine gun nest lone
handed with a broken rille and an
empty cartridge-belt. That sure was
courage.
Tornv O'Brien, a sad faced young
doughboy from Milwaukee, is an
other one who was placed in the
class of the faint-hearted light
weights. "He can punch,” the touts
said, "but he can’t stand the going.”
This same Tommy O’Brien had his
leg almost blown off in the Argon
ne forest with the United States
Infantry. His leg is a mass of ugly
soars that run here and there, up
and down all over the limb. He was
almost torn apart by a burst ot
shrapnel and they despaired of his
life at the emergency hospital. Cer
tainly. they said, if he recovers lie
never will be able to walk. And
now' that boy is fighting.
The other night in Madison Square
Garden, Tommy O’Brien was fight
ing George Chaney, the greatesi
puncher of his weight that the ring
has ever seen. O’Brien and Chaney
were two of sixteen light weighti
selected by the New York Boxing
Commission to engage in the tourna
ment that was organized to find the
successor to Benny Leonard as the
world's lightweight champion. Every
man in the tournament was to be
drawn out of the hat, there were
pale faces and nervous hands arounc
the table in the office of the com
mission.
Chaney's name came out first
There was a nervous tension in the
room when the hand of a commis
sioner went in another hat to draw
Chaney’s opponent.
“Tommy O’Brien," the commis
sioner announced. And the coloi
came back to many faces in the
room. O’Brien didn’t flinch. He
merely smiled a sad smile that has
been since that hell in the Argonne
O’Brien, as the wags say, got or
his bicycle when the fight started
He knew as every one else knew
who lias any knowledge of boxing
that it would be suicide for O'Brier
to go out anu slug Chaney. His onh
hope was to stay on the defensive
and wait for an opening.
“He’s yellow. He’s running. Catcl
him, Chaney,” the ten-cent sports
in the ten-dollar seats yelled.
It looked like O’Brien was gone
He was being almost floored with
body punches that were landing or
his back. He was being hurt sc
badly that he was claiming a foul
on blows that were landing on his
chest. Suddenly, in sheer despera
lion, he lashed out a wild right hand
It landed flush on Chaney’s jaw and
he fell like an oak, the bell saved
him, but he came out of his cornet
and O’Brien floored him for the
count with another right hand.
It was learned after the fight thai
O’Brien had broken his wrist in the
first round and that he was suffer
ing the most excruciating pain wher
the wolves were yelling “yellow” a'
him.
The knockout of Chaney was one
of the sensations of the indoor sea
son. In fifteen years of boxing lie
had scored more than 150 knock
outs in a couple of hundred bouts
He was the most feared fighter ir
the class and he was considered one
of ilu- gamest. Ho couldn’t take it
though, not because he lacked the
courage, but because he lacked the
i resistance to recover from a punch
that came over too hard.
Tiger Flowers, Atlanta negro was
a sensation in the early season
among the middleweight^. He look
ed like a million dollars the night
he stopped Johnny Wilson for the
first time the former Wilson for the
ever been stopped. The critics hail
ed him as another Wolcott and an
other Ketchell.
Promoters tried vainly to get ap
jonenis for him until they made an
offer to Jack Delaney, the Bridge
port middleweight. Delaney is one
of the most fickle fighters in the
[ ring. He looks like a million one
i night and the next time out he looks
; like a second-rater against a bum.
Delaney was considered ‘ a good
! test, as he had stopped Paul Ber
I lengbach when he was burning up
the class. The match was made and
Delaney knocked out Flowers with
one right hard punch to the jaw. He
caught the negro coming in and let
him have it for twice the ordinary
I power of a punch. The manager
of Flowers claimed lie had a horse’s
! slipper in his glove and a return
! match was made. Flowers must
* have had some gameness or he
; wouldn’t have taken the second
| match.
I Delaney knocked him out again
with the same short right hand
j punch that was landed as he was
j coming in.
J As little Mandell says: “No one
i can take ’em when they come toe
! hard.”
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