Show MANY fIGHTERS HAVE SAVED SAnD COIN 7 Fortunes Have Been Made in Ring but Most of Them Were Squandered New ew York April 4 Prize fighters as a arule arule arule rule are poor financiers Some ot o Ute the top topnotch notch rs have made fortunes when in ii their prime and squandered their money like the drunken sailor tiloi Jake Jako who once fought John L I Sullivan for fOr the heavyweight t champion championship ship the other tiny day I flied filed a voluntary pe petition e titian in bankruptcy in the United States district court In this city Although he hit admitted that he had won in purses theatrical engagements and ami nd as 8 boxing instructor assets asset asse were only stated that there never was a good fighter who saved or invested his money mone But there are facts which show that thit this has not always been the case James J Jeffrie Jeffries the retired heavy heavyweight heavyweight weight champion is decidedly an OR velvet He lie owns a profitable saloon In Los An Angeles Angeles n neles geles eles also alo a big bl alfalfa farm a few miles away while his lite wife has money mosey in her own name It H Is It said Id to have been bean her personal wealth and also aIm her objections that mado made Jeff retire from the ring She SheH Sh Is H evidently the hoes boss of ot the household househ ld too for after aft r the big bip boilermaker re n received 1000 recently for tor refereeing a fight in Frisco he started out ott to paint the town only to have Mrs Jeff Jett appear upon the scene and lead him home b the ear In his own name multo Jeffries Jeffri must mut be worth close to Unlike John JohnL JohnI 1 I L Sullivan he was never much of ot a spender and seldom showed bowed a dere de lre for fora a gay ga life lIf A few years ago a 10 when Sul Sullivan Sullivan livan was dead broke he lie vent a friend to Jeff for John L Wakes Up What t does John want for Cor forr r the Californian California with a look of surprise I suppose he hc needs It for living ex expenses expense pense pens was waa the reply Living expenses eh eli b Well rell you go kO goback kOback back and tell Sullivan if he want to toBO too togo BO go o Into business Ill give him tile the hun hundred hundred dred growled the husky husk champion champon The message was promptly carried to Sulli Sullivan Sullivan Sullivan van who was hurt at first then amused Hell Rive give me a hundred if It I want to togo togo go into business s said Sullivan in n dis disgust gust Does he thing I want to open a peanut stand Sullivan never neer got the century Thin Th and a Ii few feu fe other hard knocks by br the IIII way 8 served to bring Sullivan to his sen senses ea and for the last three years y rs he has not touched liquor In any form Today Toda he 11 has lias abou about In cold cash to his credit his only sister who lives In Boston Bot ton being the custodian John L receives O a Ii week as the star of a burlesque burle que company compan He Ife H has hia shaken off all an of or his old companions companion and puts away aWRY at least noo SOO every sev soy seventh seventh day His HIR ambition is 18 to run up hi his bank roll to and then retire to toa toa toa a stock farm where he can raise fine cattle and horses He realizes r that h ho cannot go on boxing and for many man years ears more as his weight 35 33 pounds and his past dissipation are beginning to In tell ten on him in his old ag Tommy Burns Is Thrifty By the time Tommy Burns who now poses as the heavyweight champion of ot atthe the world comes back from Europe nt hl will probably have nearly nearl in his hili strong box Burns Is not only a money mone getter but a careful saver with a splendid splendid splendid did financial brain He surprised d the th English sporting public with his close closefisted closefisted closefisted fisted methods For that matter the Ni Na National I Sporting club of at London came with within in an ace of declaring Burns fight with Gunner Moir off ff Just before fore the men mell entered the because Tommy made unusual demands as to the posting po of or orthe the purse in the referees hands and as asto asto u uto to the division of the profits from the moving pictures of the battle baUle He lost many friends by these methods methode but hut toP le legot got Kot the coin just the same Mme Dr A P Ordway Ordwa an American sporting authority who was present during the argument between b tween Burns and the club officers says say Tommys behavior was hoggish in th Ui extreme It is generally generall believed that If It Burns can cnn retain his hili position at the Ule head of his class for the next three or four years ears he lie will be able to retire the rich richest richest est eat pugilist the world has ever known Philadelphia Jack OBrien Is 18 another business fighter of the Burns type HP lie has always considered the commercial end of a match before any other details He was gathering in the shekels in great style before Burns gave ave him the double cross and him up as a faker OBrien outside of the rin ring le Is a success successful successful ful real estate operator and is said to have more than invested ted in Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia phia property alone He lie never drinks drink in intoxicants Intoxicants intoxicants toxicants lives JIves economically but wt likes liken diamonds which he regards a au good in Investments investments vestments Britt and Some Others Jimmy Britt also has the real estate tate bee and owns several houses IH hi Slin Fran Francisco cisco deco He Is reported to be worth 75 5 I and is still piling up the dollars daY dav by day da Battling Nelson the Dane has haM hasa haMa a good bank account and some valuable real estate said SAkI to be worth in the neigh neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood of Billy Myer who fought Jack McAuliffe for the lightweight cham championship is I the superintendent of the fair fairgrounds fairgrounds grounds round race track at New Ne Orleans and has a bank roll of assets are his vaudeville sketch The King Kin of at the Turf and lind his race horse h or 1 Pierrot purchased two years ago from James R It Keene Charley Charle Mitchell is undoubtedly the richest pugilist In England If it not In the world He has about and ami will probably add much to this sum when his hl Pony pon Moore dies Mitch Mitchell ell eli made his first big money mone In America when he boxed Mike Cleary Clear and also John L Sullivan in Madison Square Gar Garden Garden Garden den The first match with Sullivan net netted netted netted ted about for Mitchell The second time they the were to box in the garden Sullivan was just winding up a big spree and appeared In street clothes to apolo apologize apologize apologize gize to the great crowd for his inability to spar The money was equally divided and Mitchells share was This was getting mont mon money y easy and the shrewd Eng Bag lishman then went wont on the road where he picked up many more American dollars d This was start and he has never been financially embarrassed since Today roday Mitchell MitchIll lives like a It prince and mixes with the men of wealth In Lon London London London don Jim Corbett has been making money on o othe othe the stage ever since he stopped fighting several years ago H Ho S is probably worth at least He has a fine home hol at Long Island where he h passes the summer months Corbett Is a clever business man and knows how to drive a profitable bargain Bob Fitzsimmons who fought for a purse with Jim Hall but only got gor gota gora a part of the money mone is reported to have lost much of or the money he earned in the prize ring on his theatrical ventures He has a farm over In New Jersey Jerse however and still sports big diamonds |