 While boxing with the President, Moore struck Roosevelt so hard in the eye that the President lost sight in it.Moore did not learn of the result of the blow until 1917, and only from reading Roosevelt's statement of how he came to lose sight in that eye, in which Roosevelt did not name Moore, but Moore realized that only he fit the description.Moore stated, "But could you ask for any better proof of the man's sportsmanship than the fact that he never told me what I had done to him?"