Show MANY FORTUNES WON IN JUST ONE PUNCH The Purse Offered Burns and Johnson Holds the Rec Record ord One Swing Netted Joe Gans and the Championship Winner Loser Dec Sharkey Sharle W K K J W Britt W Yo K K K I IXl K 1 W F K I L 1 LF F K W F K E EThe The fighting game is the most lucra lucrative thc tive vocation in the world Joe Gans went to Fort Erie stepped into the ring with Frank Erne shot out hi his right and down went the lightweight ht champion That one punch netted Gans Gaas at least worth of oC engagements Only On a few months ago Stanley Stanle Ket Ketchel chel into a ring in California with Mike like Twin Sullivan The lat hat latter latter hatter ter feinted Ketchel dodged shot over his right and down went sent Sullivan Ketchel got for that one punch A few years ears ago England sent its champion Pedlar Palmer to America to vanquish Terry Terr McGovern Terri Terrible Terrible Terrible ble Terry stepped Into the ring shot out his right down went the English Englishman man and while the referee was count counting counting counting ing Mr Ir Cashier handed Terrys man manager manager manager ager something in the neighborhood of The other day da the news flashed fla hed un under under under der the Pacific that Tommy Tomm Burns had signed his hits name to an agreement to light fight one Jack Johnson The bait was wasa a purse The fight is to take place in Sydney Australia in Decem December her ber This battle is to be for the heavyweight hea championship of the world but the purse is the magnificent thing about it It is the biggest purse ever offered for a ring battle And on the thc same saml day Battling Nel Nelson Nelson son champion t lightweight declined an offer of to meet Packy Pack McFarland land In Iii a battle in Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia phia If you figured it down you ou would find that the country pays President Roosevelt some very vel small change in comparison Nelson refused to battle eighteen minutes when hen his remuneration remuneration remuneration tion promised to be a minute Six rounds would only mean eighteen min minutes minutes mm utes of actual fighting But Nelson elson declined because he feared strange as that may ma seem It would have cost him a great deal Jeal more than Nelson is a a bulldog for endurance and he knew that McFarland had a plen splendid splendid did chance to outpoint him In a six round battle He Ha had no mind to lose worth of his glory glor as champion and jeopardize his value as a theatrical star I will meet him over the Mara Iara Marathon thon than route any time and place he wired the Philadelphia matchmaker Two years cars ago Nelson picked up 11 for a battle with Terry McGovern at the same ame club He had no fear of McGovern Terry Terl had gone back baek And Terry Terr was as a fighter after his Ills own style He knew it would be a case of slug and he thought he would be able to McGovern But Ter Terry IT ry gave gae him as good as he be took and andelson Nelson elson was waR lucky luck to escape with a di dl division division vision of the honors There are many man fighters in America some still in the tho ring and ami others re retired retired retired tired who have hae fat and Juicy bank bankrolls bankrolls rolls There is Tom Sharkey who left Uncle Sams to enter the therin ring rin and accumulate gold so fast it made him dizzy and Tommy Ryan who gathered in the for many years until ago ag laid him on the thc shelf with all aH his gold around him It is a fallacy that fighters dissipate their wealth away awa John L Sullivan did it for tor years and being the best known artist the world decided others in kind George Dixon threw all his wealth away and Joe Gans recently defeated by Nelson has done likewise Gans Is returning to Baltimore It Itis Itis ItIs is doubtful if he will arrive home with even cven a part of his end of his recent fights In California He has long been beena a victim of the gambling germ germin gennin in fact carries the bones hones in his pocket and andIs andis andis Is ever ready read to shake for either two bits or his hotel But the great majority major t of real cham champions champions champions have hae stowed themselves away with enough to live Ie on in comfort and luxury for all life lite Jim Jeffries tho the champion of champions carried his fortune to Los Angeles and has been adding to it ever eer since Jack Johnson trailed Tommy Burns Burnsall Burnsall all aU over oer Europe and was hitting the trail to Australia lla when Tommy capitulated capitulated hated Burns Bums is perhaps tho the cleverest business man in the game He has never feared Johnson He knew that some day some club would offer a purse worth while And he was wily enough to know that Johnson was the best press agent he h had Johnson and his Ills manager were advertising the champion from the rooftops The fighters are to get at Syd Sd Sydney Sdney ney for the winner and for the loser The battle may ma go 0 one round ten twenty or forty fort Neither man has ever eer fought more than ten twenty twenty ty rounds Jim Jeffries was offered but the match malch did not noV go through When f t t 11 4 I Gate FIghters Place r receipts share New York 6 S SSan San Francisco New York Colma Coima Cal San Francisco San Francisco 2220 Carson City San FrancIsco 1950 San FrancIsco San FrancIsco San Fr Frncisco San Francisco San Francisco 21 G Goldfield Ne Ncr San Francisco Goldfield was prosperous the promoters promoter threw out all aU kinds of bait to the champion but he refused to budge from his retirement Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Hall HaH fought for a purse at New Or Orleans Orleans leans Bob won and the manager of the club handed him a check for tor 41 1000 being for training expenses But when Bob tried to get it cashed It was turned back Fitzsimmons did hot not get a cent for tor that battle and nei neither neither ther did Hall The men had agreed to fight tight winner take all The next biggest purse was the 30 given for the first bat battle battle battIe tle tIe at Goldfield Nelson got the big biggest biggest biggest gest end of that although Gans was the champion at the time and won the battle battIe That fight holds the record in inthe inthe inthe the matter of receipts The gate was The fighters however have frequent frequently ly 13 I cut more than the Goldfield purse amounted to The contest in New Ne York drew and the fighters received The money was divided 75 per pcr cent to Jeffries the winner and 25 per cent to Sharkey The sailor made a terrible row claim claiming claimIng ing he had not only been robbed of the decision but of a fortune The fight In San Francisco drew a gate of and the fighters divided the record sum of That was more than to the round The fight only lasted ten rounds Jim Corbett and Kid McCoy took part vart in a fake fight tight at Madison Square Garden robbing the public of the fakers fake dividing Terry Mc McGovern McGovern Govern Goern and George Dixon drew at the old Broadway club the time Terry Terr took the championship from the great little negro Right here in New Kew York nowadays we have examples of oC fighters A year ear ago Leach Cross of ot the East Side fought in a preliminary for 5 The other week he h got 1700 for his affair with Tommy Murphy and later he received a fat fataeI wad aeI for his encounter at the tho National Athletic club with Willie Fitzgerald He has laid away a snug fortune in his earold career as a fighter tIghter Tommy Tomm Murphy owns a row of ot tene tenements tenements tenements ments and a large slice of Long Tal IsI and Tommy has never been wild He runs from the ringside to the office o ohis ohis his Investment broker Billy who recently won tj the middleweight championship from Ket Ketchel Ketchel Ketchel chel has gathered In in the last year He will probably get as much more before the year is over oer |