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jsaR1 Tf** ft®*, Yours Up a'ble fend Inezpenslv rVrnoing «a, mwpaulTmS A UVERY Horses Bought arnf Sol? Special} attention given to Jbight Driving and City work Phone Green 303 iri'"" 2®£l .¥jfertowiir S. '^fllli J1^e--Tliyrou^hbre(i PlynSonth Rocjc Eggs. In quire of Stafford at Neill's harness shop. -'M?* SELf'SATlSF^Cr TLOFT-JNV A JPBBUHFF OF CFFMT TTFTR \4L#J TON A ZVSATM OR PKOFESSIONAI, MJN MEN HIT JCCOV&X HANDLED *Y VS. JCCVIACY* JIM WSEW/ITISM TFANAGEMVHT tbe*e 10 About three months after the Cor-, bett tight John L. Sullivan had a blg: benefitat Madison Square Garden, and l^boxed with'him. Three half minute founds were enough: John had put on fat after quitting the game. I Just-lqt him punchy at me and ducked under his' swings until he was winded., Sulli van'made a speech. I dldn'L f'ij Fltsslmmona"' boxed an exhi|iltlop with th^rne^ tfyat night Sharkey Htparr&^tq# 1 Jtold Tom about meet ing his fafher 'at Queenstown when I went to Europe and how be saw me off at the pier. "Good iuek to yeO he said, "and may y'ez lick all the fighters Is the world-except me bye Tom." Pin knocked out cold." When wiater came along I had a lit tle experience that came'near putting me out of the game. Bob Fltzslmmons came aronud „tc one of the theaters ope night ,td shake hands and have a talk. Bob sat in a box until the Show was over and then came' behind the scenes. I stood there in my tights without even putting a sweater, and--I was wet and hot from the box ing. The cold wind blew on me, and felt chilled before Bob left and I went to my dressing rootn. far, by McClura 'Ne*»p*per SkJ-SSS,** (Jirltain, w** *h* Itoaste gam. EHWFT do any fighting for Weri: a year after beating Oorbett had .me bus, t» the ahtfw *s. After the Sharkey fight Tom and I bad sparred every night for a week at Koster & BlalV oM placvfrih dc(wo *ow. Web' •treated the flwt\igbt for- violating somd.aortof an anti-boring la'w,! Man hy Friepd was our-lawyer. I remem ber 11iat Billy Brady got Impatient over the legal -way ^f handling the' ®se 4°^ 'b® Jefferson Mar ket iOurt He jumped VTJFC poshed ,Manny aside and made a redhot speech, telling all about our boxing show. V^hen he wag all through the judge asfesd. "Are you counsel In this case?" 1 '1 aitt notf'i said Brndy., "r»-w lawyer. I'm Just telling you facts.'* "W«siy said the judge, "If you aren't a lawyer you ought to be. jpase dis missed." There wasn't any -more trouble this time. I played a part'ln "The Man From the West" a big show that Bra dy fixed up for me. When I boxed at any theater It was generally with my brother Jack, and we weren't both-? ered. I 1 ,Two doctors and three rubbers work ed over me all night In the morning I didn't feel much better, but thought I'd go to the hotel and get a good sleep. Joe ^MaxWell, the singer, and 1 went to breakfast, I ordered a lot of lanjib cbopa, ^but when they came In 1 could" only eat one, and th$£ was a little-one. That settled it WCTOCTED JU8QCTP TOT »6yXS WITH, MX axrip tfttL ipsi^Ml tbat)itee*r ,n^wt be something Wtrloasly -Wrong with me and made me ga to see his doctor. Tbe doctor ed me ta bed. lt,Mn pneumonia, remembering»h#w near -pnat^bo me to killiiig me in San Bi*a- I hustled to my room in the Minor and stayed there MvenT months after the Oorbett tight '!Ufr* loeytaidlfr fes itwsntgr ^mdPhaU in Oncia- ^witue^Hf '4 but 1 auRjfi 'we put our I^OMA.tt^ropes, me aWr'tdmae feat* as I could go. Hewn around tin* so fast is the fourth that I Nearly got winded trying to catch him. coon was tickiedbalf'*o death Stayiht wr rounds wttb tbe another match with Joe Kennedy Francisco. a four ttimnd bpht fought at the Reliance CfctKe^Oak: Isid a week after the^ Grtffln'liftSir, Kennedy was a wg fellow my own weight He started obt^la Frisco ^b/ taking a decision over Gus JRuhlln in twenty ^founds. Be Whs: Clever. After beating Buhan. Joe went to *,New York- to- mkke a'dean up. The first man he fought was Pe ter Maher, and they figured Peter easy far Joe, who was touted as tbe-com ing champion. Joe made a show of Peter for one round, and tbe sec ond Peter managed lo get over Us fa mous wallop,'and Joe turned his toes vp toward the celling aptB the ten count was:flnlshed. The Reliance Athletic, .club wasj rf on the night of ^h«ti There was a lot of betting going on. I was a 2 r. band* »p be uprinted _*« I hadjna 'i CHpK asVl beganv Agisting Kennedy starts!^ cleverly and got through the flrsjf round all right but in the.second 1 dropptd hlm with a stralg&t left on the jaw, and he was counted out I was beginiQng to feel like flgh^ng again now. ^illy Deianey had fixed ap the training camp, and in a few days went (to work. At first I did a lot of inmtlitg and hill, climbing—the beet traiqdng^n the world,- I expected) a hard fight and trained for It A few daya before- Nov. was In the best shape of my lite, and when I boxed that four round* with Griffin in Los Aogetar they bad said 1 was fat and woult^bave a hard time t& ^come back" again. We'went down to the bay. The last day's work was. done in: the gymnasium of the Reliance Ath letic club, it was a ladies' day in the gymnasium, but the .club gave them another room to exercise ih," and al most all of them.' for that matter, came la to see- me work. When that day's training was over, I stepped on the scales in tbe dressing room and weighed jiwt 212% pounds, stripped. That'to the lowest lighting weight 1 remember except tbe 204 pounds at which 1 woo the championship from Fitsslmmops. 'to favortte, and the fiviiiln money waa all from the eastOali foralans were with me. RubUir was'still staying out at Blank*, en's, taking it ensy on the last day. They told me that lie looked In great, shape and seemed to be cofcfident of winning. Gus was weighing 202 pounds stripped. He wafof my ow^j iteigM. He had pjtenty-of oeveraesv/ He was strong.' He could t*ke punefc. in reach »e bad a big adTantage wer m*. having stretch of seventy-ulght and' three-fourths Inches, the longest of alt the heavyweight*. Ob- the njornlng of the light I tnme down from my room ta the Metfepote: to Oakland and found the westher out aide gloomy ^nd wec That wa*rmy infrky weather. Ali my hig figbts Mve been if an' onwet days, iiaer In the '4rftenii6fav Dilarifey 'And I went across th^ bisy' t618ka PrHnclsto and bad din. ner together at tbe Western, where A1 Smith 'was. 'we'Wenf to the St KIchoMi, a big. Jtrfet4i0t*l. and 1 slept for an^hour while waiting the call to Musd^jire «p«neM^ *ng .1«« always rtoep oi'-todth* i» 1 %*A$? uh^ gave a •CO.'-iAa invitation to-one of Jwfc: of ttahUn left Blsnken's Six *r J$OA. drove into town tows with Blatiken Ide&Aftef vjj -y £.-" stoiyftrwfff Mmc f'aisd OM Mved4 04» WW. "Cto»| beautiful. sbapei/ shoi?etf liia twoj and, of course, infuriated them. But they were not half as angry as tbe husband of one and the brother of an other when th«» learned of Mr. Col Tins' love daps. The men told Collins that: they' Would break every bone' in- dwnot The hi in from: a later tion. ciui- •rfent away from there. immediately suspended dub temporarily and at his resigaa- Collins is\a hrotherin^aw of young wyBam Thtw, wbo^ent such a pace in Ksw Ye* recently that his mother spplied to tt» courts to declare him a Wibltual dn^kard. Henry. the Siap l^r" as he^is bring called, had little money when he.' married Kline" Thaw, grandchild si famous old William Thaw, and siace bis marrEtge bas been wasting mudh time In spending the money which his''.wife has gpM share of the lhaw-#orta^M|® "f^T OM) PUDDIWO" BIT HER. Girl AllosM Too Ardent Suiter^ C^aress Om Her a Can car. Pursuant to an order of .the J^dge, &. Price Grnffius, attorney for,Miss BHlubeth Gummo, filed in court at. Al toona. Pa., the love letters that will figure prominently In the breach of promise suit 1 nstituted by Miss Gummo against Edgar G. Toner, couwellman.of Tyrone, wljerRfn #25,000 damages ctaihied, Both the. llttganta are prom inent socially, and the defendant is t» puteil riary: wealthy,. In one letter to the plaintiff while ^e was In Atlantic City defendant asks Iter to'keep away: ftom the inlet for fear aoutethlng might happen to her there and. signs himself «q){H!D Tat Old Pudding." statement Miss Gummas* tiiat Toner in a fit of ardent ad' miration blt her left breast causing a cancer, wldcb has injured her perma nently. Jtr ils she demands damage* it the*uriof HJ* elans thi Cr«*/ to Ola In tin #aMerf. Thomas Coughllp, who gate his ad» dress as SS& East Thirty-second street wftpi,#*rested in the msln entrance of tbe Waldorf-Astoria hotel, la New York city/ on ebftrgat of dlsorderfy conduct ,.fte appealed to $r. crwed from (ffirfak ^nd smadied a liicjte' jkane of glass tn tbe revolving door or tine hotel wjtrance. Cou^Uia^a acpona (h, running atound In1 a el tele, sbodtlng and dying to get Into cabs- add auto moblles ia front of the hotel attracted A crowd. ^Wben the manar*n to tbe entrance of ,the hotel he cried oat 'Tve got one hour more to live, aud i' might «rwe0 die in tbe WaMotf t» y. .'.'p p«s CsMpina Marti •tatf-faa ed FTUB T*fUi So. For thelnsane.atHlife as laMoed wtfli a lariat IF wiite by the iW^sc aid kwtdt hwse^^v'co^' FTIPI PUK8TFMP^P F$A puicBh-matMtiib. Its ^4 iBottledBeet try C^U.MielielB £^C.E.Weiler ^lflwaf«tEtwrtn of renc#s. 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