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Show fc SULLIVAN AND 1 ! BUNCH OF PUGS 1 1 Defeated All Coiners I f oa Tool ' I How They Were Chased Out I . cf Town by a Lot of Texas Cowboys. I I John I.'5 View of the Race Problem V: A Doctors Certificate of His a Present Fitness to Tight. I' j jf By John L, Sullivan. j'p With a bunch of pugs. I made a tour I' 1 1' of tho country In 1858, when tho sports ,' wcro curious to seo tho Boston boy who .f had lowered Poddy Ryan to second if-. place. A lot of things happened. That I C was a famous tour. Tho coin rolled In (( almost as fast as John D. gets It. Moro 'jj than J1&0.000 to tho good was tho record S during tho nlno months wo wcro out. At every stand I hung up S1000 for any mark j who would stay four rounds with me. lr That thousand never got away. It -was V on duty all during the tour and I novcr ' let it got further than tho place whero J It was hung up. r All klnil nf tricks wnro. nlnvorl In rf III that money. All kinds of punchers, gon- I tlemen boxers with hlghfalutln' notions of how much better their system was than mine, bums who would tako any chnnco for such a pot, husky citizens jf from the prairies, Montana miners, ,'' roughhouso wrcstlors from tho moun-tains, moun-tains, Texas cowboys, city foot racers, y. sptculators with courage to burn, and i;! many others tried for It. They came In ' all shapes, but they all looked alike to , v me. li" A Long String of Knock-Outs. Thcro were between fifty and sixty f ctaps who camo up to get that thousand. No two of them fought tho same way. All 1 got a lot of experience and none of the money. Every man of them got knocked out Some of them rung In on mo whon r they thought I wasn't In condition to battle, but r was present with tho goods, oery time. Ono alec followed the show . :or two weeks beforo ho thought he saw ; his chance. "When ho camo on ho got It good and swift. I "The rounds wcro longer than I reckoned reck-oned on," was his explanation when ho crime to. Each man had a different ex-bf ex-bf - planatlon when It was over, but thcro ti was only ono right explanation for all. !1 Prof. Mlko Donovan, who now givea f boxing lessons to President Roosevelt ' and his sons; good old Pole McCoy, Her- " tert Slado (who got religion and shook f us to Join tho irtormons In Utah, and who Is now prospering In Australia, I bellevo): Steve Taylor Is now dead; and 3Iiko Gillespie, were In tho round-up to chow tho sports what good, men could do with their dukes. , ! Alleged Attempt to Kill Him in Texas I It was thought by somo In tho party that a certain foxy Now Yorker who k b'avo an alum-studded dog collar to ad it Aertlso a picture paper, was nutty to get toniobody to trim mo and had ringers trailing us, aiding the ambitious to go usnlnst mo If this was so, thoy got f.nowballs Instead of glory. ; , During that swing around tho circle . . nvoro than ono attempt was mado upon .i- my life, in Fort Worth. Tex., wo were !;' InUted to a cock fight. At that time Foil Worth was young and gay, not the '. serious and proper place It Is todav. I t f. guess It led tho world In cock-llgtitlng. if: and tho cowboys came to town strong for this sport. As a .small return for the I ' r'Ico way wo had been treated In tho 'u: town I made 'a rather stiff bet on ono if Of tho cocks i Whilo making tho bet I said something "IV'i 'iich the cowboys took as an Insult, fivs! For tho life of mo I enn't see how thev Vvfl twisted my remark Into an Insult, for I 'lim flirtJllnly dIl"'t Intend anything of the I V fu' T"at nisht word was passed to us I that 4ho cowboys woro loaded for Sulll- I f. van and enthusiastic to bury me as a I , ' memento of tho occasion. ! , Chased Out of Town by Cowboys. I My friends couldn't seo any way out of I ! 't except a quick duck for mine. I want- 1 f ia to stay and reason with the bov3, knowing that they would fight fair. But f ' 7 Jammed Into a wagon, held there, C. u 4rivon oyond the danger line. I bc- i iiuved at tho timo that It wan a cano o r v stage fright on tho part of my friends. f i couldn t convince them of HiLs. Thoy I, ,& blrenuously stuck to It that I'd htv-.c been 1 I ?u.c.ad one bcforo daybreak had I stayed i p. in the town. J r doc,lpr who looked mo over the other fM ?y sld. 1 wns flt 10 ,5G:ht at tho drop tffi" ?,,n 1,at our condition Is wonder- I I sood, so good that I wouldn't bo- : A i"vou ""leas I savr It with mv own 1 I c?! s1ld htf- Thn ho told mo that , P. nc JiougJit my fine phapo va3 because- I t V !;, no,v9r ono ctal through ovcr-trnln- 5 " anu becauao I had never been sovcro- Srulla ,,)MTk6 , UP 'htlt 1 ,,av'o always claimed. Look back over tho fighters trjit nave Bono and you'll find that few oi XJiom have ever "cocio back" after tnC'j ouca got It good. Jewries has uoxor a ""Uplnw. When ho gots a fow woJ clouts, he'll frazzlo up like a puff ' ,i i ?r,0y-'- Covbett ho3 never dono any-J.lLj? any-J.lLj? oir.ee Fltz hit him, except to got .. "''..wmw on tho public. After a boxer Reived a liard punching on top of wl"1!1 of much tralr.lnff. ho'3 In for f ft nKan11 a frcak' 1Iko lho Cor" jI Won't Tight a Ifegro. lit .Today I can tnko and givo more III in 1 lmy of thorn, bar none. T didn't Mi t iT a doctor's ce:-Uflcato to show me. alt i Knew It before the dootor, and hero, IP . . l.lnft highest place on the water wa- fji I?.1, 1 repeat my doll to the bost of them. l ies,a auckor3 aro trying to drlvo mo to fli "P'tlttg somo of tho chocolate-colored l ".'Vwolghts as tho only means loft for Mi ;y9 to ahov,- tho country that I'm good JiV ',!?i1I,nt: timber today. But they'll never arivo me to that. UK .f,,Ve novor fought a negro and I never I r win, i came ncar ,j0inf. jt Onco, In self-lit self-lit ?a nsiu" AVIllI seeing tho sights In a V n Georgia, eom(; years ago, a pow-S pow-S I r'i'l negro, who had como Into town with .pa,r of "tilc and somo stuff loaded I I onto a crazy-looking rig. offered to light ".fEht then and there. He looked L f husky, and It did seem that I couldn't I h si'lestep a go with him, for me Insulted ! mo Homethlng stupendous. ;i ni my r,8ht slung Into position to f. Bivo him his when a slim Southerner r ; a BUro enough white man hopped In be-St be-St i rween "8. Tho negro looked big enough ll to oat tho Southerner, but whon tho lat- ml ' . ri h?-n to talk to thn owner of the WK ' tU craft- H1" warrior woakuned at once. I t i. Wu mhiutos tho colored cham))lon was Wf- ClU on tho hurricane deck of his out-' fit, looking two feet smaller and-sorry he 1 spoke. View of Race Problem Down South. I havo often thought that thlr. affair was a goad plcturo of tho nico situation down South. Tho while people there ought to be left to settle thins their own way, for thoy understand what to do and they I can do It with tho least trouble. They aro a fine people, thf white men down South, with heaps of trouble of their own, but with the know-how to .-jettlf them, if left alono. After ho had saved mo from doing up the colored brother, the Hllm Southerner said: "Ah'in sorry, suh. that you shud gi;t any wrong ldeah of Southern hospitality. Wo nuhtalnly don't go for to let visitahs bo oubjocted to annoyances of thl9 kind. Thl bov (moaning tho. chocolate-colored brother, who was moro than six feK high and old enough to repeat) must have gono plump crazy to do what he-did. Tin knows verv well that wo don't allow anything any-thing Of the kind, suh." TrlWl back the battle-lings, I say, and stop fussing about Use way these whltc men attend to their dark affairs. When Northerner.- will toko the time to got tho storv thn South bus to toll and got It straight, there Will be a few snldo politicians poli-ticians out of Jol3. but tho whole country coun-try will be healthier. ,q I write this In a AVIsconsln town, news comes that Maurice Barrymore. another old frlond, has pnsscd on, Maurice Mau-rice once Hiild to me that he was the John U of the stage. Ho was a boxer Kood enough to have mado a fair day s nay with the mitts. lie was a rare mnn for an Englishman, having wit and humor hu-mor enough to have passed for mi Iriidi-man. Iriidi-man. Years ago. across the water, ho boxed in public under the name of Maurice Mau-rice I3:iiTvmorehlfl real name was very different and ho carried the name to tho stage with him. Mnurico Barrymorc's Offer to John L. "If wo could double up. John," he said lo me, "we'd bo the greatest team of leading men out. In heavy leads, you re a' star and I'm prolty good myself. All wn'd need would be a tank drama and a nroso agent to put tho United States mint out of business." The boxing practice he kopt up did a lot toward making him one of the most eniceful actors on the stage and he always al-ways had a Jolt handy for the Johnnies who thought actresses fair game. And right hero I say that whero you find a man who follows boxing as an exercise, you find one who makes good In any business or profession he etacks up against. t 1 don't mean by this that professional ! fighters are always tho limit as actors. I oven If I did shake 'cm In "Honest Hearts ! and Willing Hands." Thoro are somo I occasional tlghtcra now crowding good actors out of Jobs, who might be In bettor business, and the excuse that they need the money doesn't make tho crlmo any the less. I'm hoping to get on to a 20-foot 20-foot stage with some of these "actors." who are using their theatrical dates to ilodgo mooting me. There'll bo something doing for them when the curtain goes up on that drama or tragedy or farce whichever which-ever you want to nanio It Yours truly. JOHN U SULLIVAN. |