Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — J. W. Beckman Has Boxed With Lightweight Champion. [ARTICLE]

J. W. Beckman Has Boxed With Lightweight Champion.

letter from James W. Beekman, who is now at East Aurora, N. Y., where he stops at Roycroft Inn and works for xElbert Hubbard, states that he is 'enjoying it immensely there. Hrnnds pleasure in his recreative hours in boxing and has had on the gloves with Freddie Welsh, the lightweight champion and a number of the other good ones. He says, “I can go twelve rounds and only get started for good action now and I know I could go twenty-five rounds or even many more rounds.” Continuing, he says: “I have with me two 10x12 photos of the WelshWhite fight, one at the start and the other ten seconds before the end of the 'bout. Walsh is as light on his feet as a fairy while White is standing with his feet wide apart and a look of punished despair on his face, plainly licked. The papers can talk, but Freddie can lick ’em all. He’s a wonderful little boxer, and strange to say he is as stocky as Nelson or Wolgast. I always thought he was more slender. I think he eould rough it if he cared to, but he likes to do artistic work.” The December Fra gives Mr. Beckman’s new book, ‘The Touchstone,” an interesting write-up.