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Show I ROCKY ROAD OF THE "PUG" How Joe Goss Was to "Dope" John L. Tug Wilson's Touch and Getaway With Yankee Coin. I How John L- Tied Up the Street Cars in Boston Refused a Fortune by Not Fighting Negro. By John L. Sullivan. While passing through a town In Wls-con9ln Wls-con9ln a 6hort tlmo ago I met a man I hadn't seen In years, and lie looked a sport down and out. Ho was In Just the bhapo I expected to find him about thin time. He spoko to mo and when 1 placed him I told him to get away quick It was this man who sent a proposition to mo to lay down" in one of my flphts and tho price was Just thrco times what the winner's end of tho purse would bo. This proposition wasn't mado to mo direct, di-rect, but cam through a friend of mine who hud been Induced to think ho was doing nm a good turn by carrying tho message. When I Jumped on the schemo tho robbers rob-bers behind It tried to explain thnt they were only taking measures to bo sure that their mohOJ they wero going to put on mo would bo safe. But I was on. That wasn't tho only tlmo tho cards wero stacked to beat tho public, but It never was done In uny light I was In. Before my meeting with Ryan, Joe toss, who WM ono of my seconds, wns offered $4000 In cold cash not stage money or promises to drug me Just enough so that I couldn't win, Joe Goss, who was as hon--st a man as ever Stepped, and who loved me 89 his own brother, wan lit to do murder mur-der when tho bribe was put to him. Joo didn't do any too much praying and ho didn't do any hymn singing, but ho could show a lot of good people now to llvo on tho 6quaro and dlo without fear when his tlmo came. Although tho llrst fight of any account In my career was my defeat de-feat of Joe, who had been champion, he never had ono minute' hard feeling for me, but was my admirer, friend and helper during life. Tug Wilson's Quick Touch and Getaway. I Tho down-and-out sport i .-larled telling tell-ing ab nit, waa tn his day aa high a roller as you'd find. Ho made a lot of money on "fixed' events of all kinds and he mado boasts that he was out to win money, not to lose It. He always played with loaded dlco and h" was one of the men who Introduced the plan, now so much in use of huvlng boxers light to trim th" outsiders. In the good old days there was none of this, apd while lighters did not advertise themselves m "gentleman "gentle-man boxers'' they ild licht on tho square. Think over tho "fights" of the past few years and seo how many of them have been "fixed." Knough coin has been picked out of pockets by this kind of fighting to pay for tho Panama canal And tho strange thing is ihe nerve of some of tho grafters keeping beforo the public when they hava been caught with the goods. There's nono of this In mine. In tho few draws in my list of fights there wasn't any suspicion that I didn't do my best I've already told about Mitchell. Tug "Wilson, In tho battle In New York kept falling to tho floor before ho was hit and u:ed up most of I he four rounds In that way. 1 did hit him onco and he , went down, all right. But he was up Inside In-side of tho ten seconds, as counted by the referee, Harry Hill, but according to the timo by Al Smith and several other outsiders. Tug waa down fifteen seconds. A I Smith was an Englishman. I mado another match with Tug., and the owner of a sporting paper in New Y..rk who was scouring the world to get somebody to wallop me, posted $.VX for-felt. for-felt. Before the time for the battle Tug happened to think of some business he had to transact in dear old England, ami he quietly took ship and sailed away I The $.vo came to me and Tug lived happy . ver after on the coin he'd collected from the blawsted Yankees. By the way, i expect to meet Mitchell In tho ring at Tacoma this month. I John L.'s Father Never Weighed Over 130. After Donoghue, the sculptor, had produced pro-duced his statue of "The Boxer," for Which I posed to him during a whole summer, sharps on such matters said tin-shape tin-shape of the statue was one of the most perfect that had ever como down an 3 pike, either In this country or Greece. Although this staluo which shows yours truly 'dien 1 waa at my best, has been exhlbUeu in this country aiid Paris and praised as the most perfect of humnn shapes, I mention it only to show what a remarkablo thing it Is that I should be the on ut a father who never weighed over 130 pounds. My mother was of fair size, weighing ISO pound rind It was tald that 1 got m strength from her. My uncles and other relatives on mv father's side wero large men and In Ireland were called by a Celtic Cel-tic word meaning "Tho Big Sullivan?." According to tho yardstick measurements I didn't h.-v. much of a start In life, yet here are somo of the names I have had pill upon mo during my ci.reer In the ring. Boston Hercules, Knight of tho Fives, Tho Hard-Httling Sullivan, Tho Boston Miracle, King of the King, Tho Magnificent Magnif-icent Sullivan, Boston's Philanthropist Prize Plghter. Boston Giant, Trip Hummer Hum-mer Jack, Spartacus Sullivan, Monarch of tho Prlz' Ring. Scientific American, i oston's Pride and Joy, Sullivan tho Great. Sullivan the Wonder, Prize righting right-ing Caesar, 'hamplon Pounder, Goliath of the Ring, etc. Pretty strong for the son of a father who never damaged any scales How He Tied Up the Street Car Sys-! Sys-! tern in Boston. Several times In my crowded hours 1 put the hp i car system of Boston out I of business. W i n I opened my cafe, "The I 'hamplon's Rest," In that tow n that night I tho horse cars couldn't run'throngh N aah- lngton street because all evening there I was a Jam of people packed solid from wall to wall for a couple of hundred y;ir.is Oil both Aides of the enfe. Neither Blaine l nor Cleveland ever drew a bigger crowd In that town, and 6V( n the Ben Butler crowds looked small compared with that ; ''ish Sport -i came from all parts to at-j at-j tend that opening and those who got into the middle of the crowd didn't get out :igain for hours, -Thai . opening' was one el the big things in the history of Boston An official of the street railway company com-pany came to me and told me I was worse than a house afire for playing horse with their business and if I'd move away and never como back to Boston, he'd p,-iv mv faro as far aa I'd go p,ut I wasn t to blamo becaus tho streets were too nar-niw nar-niw Soon ;ific-r this, when horse car : got off tho track on Washington street and six or eight men had tried to lift It back on tho Iron, I lifted It on alone. I sent word to the. 6treet railway official t; that what he needed at tho head of his outfit to keep his arks going all the time i was a Sullivan or two. They've got a j Sullivan at tho head of tho system now. Refused a Fortuno Rather Thr.n Fight. j a Negro. ' Have you noticed that Marvin Hart's Victory over the colored brother has fallen flat Us onlv what might have been looked for A white man has nothing to g.iln b) swapping punches with a negro. I have, twice been almost goaded Into meeting the colored brother. but I i ih i second think In tlmo. A Hub In Ban Francisco bung up n fortune for in t . m, ot Peter Jacicson- there was 120,000 In It, and nobodv ever questioned my ability lo win It but I ducked. T was insulted in-sulted from one end of tho country to the other in the attempt to stampede nm IlltO that light, and I was angry enough at one time to throw principle to the Winds and give Jackson his. Anotheh lime 1 almost came to a SOt-tO With QeorgS Gi dfrey, but I am glad to say i didn't When I go out to battle with a man I ngre that he Is of equal standing A negro Is not the equal of a white man and It Is no kindness to the negro to let him think so. Fights between negroes Is all rlcht, but Che line ShOUld be drawn there. Hart has galne.l nothing b meeting a negro and If he had lost to the colored brother it would havo been his finish. I am willing to admit that Hart had a great dm I of provocation but he novel had as much as I had to meet Jackson. I want every negro to do well and my opposition to "seeing whlto boxers meet colored boxers is not based on any petty f( i ling. But for h white man to meet a negro as an equal doesn't pull the negro up to the whlto man's level, but rather pi Us the blonde down to tho brunettes. I'll bet that If Hart could 9tart his l-reer l-reer over again he'd cut the dark meat cut of his. |