Com um titulo e destaque no boxe, campeão de boxe peso médio para ser mais exacto, Robert

Cohn, que era Judeu, na verdade nao se importava e nem gostava desse esporte, mas mesmo
assim ele aprendeu dolorosamente e minuciosamente a neutralizar o sentimento de inferioridade
e timidez que sentira ao ser tratado como judeu que era, e como o resultado disso, destacou-se e
o titulo lhe foi de grande importancia.

Ele poderia derrubar qualquer um que estivesse arrogante para ele, embora, sendo muito tímido e
um menino totalmente legal, ele nunca lutou, exceto no ginásio.

Spider Kelly, seu mestre, ensinou a ele e a todos os jovens cavalheiros a boxear como pesos-
pena, não importa se eles pesavam cento e quinhentos ou duzentos e cinco libras.

Cohn era o favorito de Spider, pois ele era muito rápido e tão bom que Spider prontamente o
superou e ficou com o nariz permanentemente achatado. Isso aumentou a visão de Cohn pelo
boxe. Em seu último ano em Princeton, ele leu demais e começou a usar óculos. Por causa disso
desconfiava-se que Robert Cohn talvez nunca tivesse sido campeão de boxe peso médio, e que
talvez um cavalo tivesse pisado seu rosto, ou que talvez sua mãe tivesse se assustado ou visto
alguma coisa, ou que ele tivesse, talvez, esbarrado algo quando criança, mas alguém verificou a
história de Spider Kelly. Spider Kelly não só lembrou Cohn. Muitas vezes ele se perguntou o que
havia acontecido com ele.

Robert Cohn era por parte do pai de uma das famílias judias mais ricas de Nova York e, por meio
de sua mãe de um dos mais velhos. Jogou muito bem no time de futebol, na escola militar onde
se preparou para Princeton, visto que ninguem o havia tratado com racismo, por causa da sua
raça. Ninguém jamais o fez sentir que era judeu, até que ele foi para Princeton. Ele era um bom
menino, um menino amigável e muito tímido, e isso o tornou amargo. Ele venceu no boxe e saiu
de Princeton com uma dolorosa autoconsciência e o nariz achatado e foi casado com a primeira
garota que foi legal com ele.
With a title and boxing prominence, middleweight boxing champion to be exact, Robert Cohn,
who was Jewish, actually neither cared nor liked this sport, yet he learned painfully and
painstakingly to neutralize the feeling of inferiority. And shyness he had felt when being treated
as a Jew that he was, and as a result of that, he stood out and the title was of great importance to
him.

He could take down anyone who was cocky for him, although, being very shy and a totally nice
boy, he never fought except in the gym.

Spider Kelly, his master, taught him and all the young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no
matter if they weighed one hundred and five hundred pounds or two hundred and five.

Cohn was Spider's favourite, as he was so fast and so good that Spider promptly overtook him
and was left with a permanently flattened nose. Thisc increased Cohn's vision for boxing. In his
senior year at Princeton, he read too much and started wearing glasses. Because of this, it was
suspected that Robert Cohn might never have been a middleweight boxing champion, and that
maybe a horse had stepped on his face, or that maybe his mother had been scared or seen
something, or that he had, perhaps, bumped into something as a kid, but someone verified Spider
Kelly's story. Spider Kelly not only reminded Cohn. He often wondered what had happened to
him.

Robert Cohn was on his father's side of one of the richest Jewish families in New York, and
through his mother of one of the oldest. He played very well on the football team, at the military
school where he prepared for Princeton, since no one had treated him with racism, because of his
race. No one ever made him feel he was Jewish until he went to Princeton. He was a good boy, a
friendly boy and very shy, and that made him bitter. He won at boxing and left Princeton with a
painful self-consciousness and a snub nose and was married to the first girl who was nice to him.