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Show I JOHN L SULLIVAN 1 MATRIMONY I I I What He Said to a I Woman Reporter, Sullivan's Visit to Pope Leo and the Unlucky Cane He Got. A Fighter Who Won't Fight Is as Much Use as a Tin Joss nt a Frn-Tan Feast. (By John L. Sullivan.) I had a nice talk with Pope Leo whetl I s-ns in Rome He didn't do any preaching at ma because of my business, i ho dour old m.m. lie :n.-..-rm-l very triad to sen mo, and when w' parted. 1 took from the Vatican with me a foellhg of I g reverend for liim ,-is a kindly eoul who understood that all of us couldn't be as perfect as lie Was. Before leaving I gave him a tM) United States bill for his ioi- Ills llollni'-'M told m' th.it In- hji-iB hji-iB predated the gift, and nuked: -Nii't tin r.- soiii' tliliig i can glvo you IIH to remember your visit" iH i told him i would always remember him and my Visit to Homo. At llrst. I OOUldn't think of anything ho could give iB me, but ho urged mo to make a selection, j Then wn i rtne tree grow Ing at ar by in iB the Vatican gardan, ana it occurred to me I . that ;i cam from one of Its branches H would be :i nice thing to have, l told him iB ho iB A fow days after, a walking stick. beautifull carved, wa brought to my B hotel m Hom by a messenger in uniform. H and given to me, with the compliment if of (its Holiness Thai cane i carried for i long time, but I never had daj b luck whllt it was 1 1 1 m i ssldn. Gives Away a Present From Pope Leo H Often t have thought that l was hot H g.i... i rnoiiKh to cik- :l gift from so holy H a man, hut whatever the cause, every- H thing l attempted went sideways After H Corbett made mo run twenty-flve mih-.s in b small ring, i was In Providence, R i . sod i '.i i -i- Parker, the detective H good friend 61 mine, arrled the cane all if day and frSQUSntly expressed admiration iH for p. He thought so much or It that 1 I said to him: "Patsey that stick Is H yours. I hope you will have better H luck while you own it thun I have had H since it bus boon mliif'.' ronr Patsey! H jlko many of my old friends, he has gone H whom thorc aro no tioiible s H A woman reporter who Interviewed rne H a oouple 'of weeks ago asked mo how I kept tno wrinkles away Plain living and plants of it. iota of salt water and ip worry, Was tho receipt I gave hor. l wish people who think that I am all In cmilrl roail hor r ;is to my condition. They would change their notion-; as to whore I am at She reported that my iH eye i clear, my step sprinjry as a colt's, H and ray skin as soft and pink as an ln-iH ln-iH fant "Just shoo that Information along to Jeff, Etta and tho Pompadour.' 1 asked H hor when she showed me what she had written "you see. these fellows aro ad-H ad-H wrtlslng rno as a has-been and an nlso-H nlso-H ran. and as you're not prejudiced, your H word ought to go, even with them ' iB This woman said she was surprised that my hands wore not tho worse for U..U aft. r nil they'd been through, and H now that she'd seen thorn, she wasn t surprised thai Charles Hoyt had written The Rag Baby" around thorn. She was so friendly that I gave her bomo advice. Advico on Matrimony to a Woman Reporter. iH I told her whon she got ready to get married, and she ought to be ready at any time now. to pick a man who could l'"N S.i . I: ' "A man who can box never goes hunting trouble, and trouble v-Mom I hunts him; when It does, he's there to no et it with the right kind of Jounce and houne lioxing tropin ns tin brain, mak" i tin- body strong, fits 0 man to work gayly tor thoss depending on him a man who an box Is alwaya fair, he has heSp for the w. ik, and the tr..iiK can't olng any B Sr IhtO him TlS UP tO a man who can box and you'll tie up tO S Sport who .von t thrown you down and who'll be handy In iB troubles." H l guess she never got so thoroughly Interviewed In-terviewed in .iii hei experience as o re-i re-i porter she was blushing like a brlds iB, xhe left. i would advlat fi (fries to got onto'' his J' b or the public will be "onto" him. While I don't like to sa that .lack John-Son, John-Son, tho emokod pug, lay down for Mn- In Hart, the go. from the first gong to the referee's decision, had a fishy took, am the sami It's up to Jeffries to give I Hart an early meeting Jeff Is doing too much monologue work through the newspapers news-papers and not enough fighting. Why iB don't he meet all comers except coons (as H 1 did for twelve years) and see what II ; hdppen He bars nn- out, but he ounht to H take on Hart or quit After Hart, he dught n. light my sparring partner, Jim iH 'urmii'k. I'll challenge the winner In thi -' iiKhts and then Jeff can't dodge me McCormick's a comer all right, with six feel two inches and 1:. 1 Is of sac I and steam. If Jeff would only stand up and Eight like a hninau being ,iml mil CrOUCh over Ilk,- a WllllwallUptlS, I think. I Otorge Gardner could give him a run for tin money I Anyway, Jeff Must Get Down to Business. Busi-ness. iB The boll- r-pounder ought to do some .1 fighting or make room Su-. h good Judges J Charley Mitchell, Spider Kelley, Billy H Renin r and others who know, say Hart is 1 nt to tackle Jeffries. And he might to give J ".'us Ruhlin a chance, for Gus gave Hart s ich a beating In Baltimore a iar ago 1 that the u.i. going to pinch him for M 1 it and battery Jeffries may think .l. ho can stay in the clouds ail the time and J hold the title, hut he can't fool the public- .J ail the time, a tighter who never lights 1- about as much USI BS a Mil Joss at a I fan-tan feast And after James gels away I with all the other--, tiu re remains yours J truly tht undefeated champion of tin- I world under the London prize; ring rules. f A chum tigurcd out the other duy how .-J rtt b I'd be li l had taken advice twenty years ago and wtuek to It. I've taken I everything except advice in m time. My .'I hum thought $1 f-n).0O0 would be my load .1 today If I had h id less sass and moro .'.'I -.! Ho k'h .I loo now, not tuo high I as to the sun: i d have had had I been a 1 good boy, put my coin In storage and pre- '1 pared ior tht 1 tins season, Efad 1 taken ." up one-tenth of the 1 buncos to corral 1 wealth thai were slid at me, I'd have more J than Hie man who dreamt he broko the .1 bank at Monte Carlo dreamt ho hud 1 Figures on How Much He Hasn't .3 Saved. hen the money was pouring in upon 1 me, twenty years iigo, it represented a big 1 fortune fur that time. Twenty yoars ago H a man with '-u.'jtfi 'ii incnoy wan more I conspicuous than a millloiuilre Is toliy. I I When I ho (oh phone waa now. It got Its ' l'flist ri;h hi Boston, and I COUld ha s . . n In 011 the gro.urtl floor for a sum I I .1 to the cuckoos every month. A Ml big slice was offered to me for not much I'niAnrv hut that a-' foi money was tt r .11 slow fur mo For 16000 I could have got enough of a stuet railway stock which y:'''" ' sasaaaaaaallaaaH today would he pulling In a wail that Would keep mo busy tO spend A t l'. v. 1 ktov up with b ggnd in", with tears In his eyes, to ht him put the profits I mm one of my fight Into a corner lot In the heart of P.oslon which was going for 11 Song Tint lot Is now near the nOW Uolpn station and nrnw as much money "eve-i'V year as Teddy gets fot parsing the pie to Booker T. Washington, There fire son,'- more tales I could tell of g I things I passed up which would rend like some of ihe statements l:i I.awson's frVasfor-d Unanc?. Hut nn and Mik Kelley were financiers of the same stripe, w- couldn'.t ileep weii it there was am mones upapcnl at the end of the day. Tho birdn got all of it. and tlvy're too swift to be . .night i, v and made to give It UD. Any day in Mlk. K el ley's life sounds like many In mine. Once Mike ci.rned WOO at tho races at Ph epsb. id II. 1 v I in the lr; 111 back to New STork he "lolned" half of It to m l- ones, and befom Broadway sMsjed up i!,:,'t night every cent of it was given away or snout. Difference Eetween King Kelley and Emperor Lajoie. What with firing awav hlS mor.ev and lavlnc fun with Anson, King K-IK had a merry life, hut 0 short one i-ic was ki"g among bnll players and a prince among spendthrifts. i.Uice he l.rturc.l on on the wisdom of getting the savings bank habit "You'll need it some da v. John. " l.o said. "How about yourself going broke, MlkC" I asked "Not me. Whon 1 need money, 1 can takQ my turn-out and go selling milk." he replied The turn-OUt h" referred to was the horso and bllggy given to him just before a haii game on the National league grounds in Boston. The rig was a present pres-ent to the King by his subjects In my toa n When King Klley passed out. the futiiro Kmperor Napoleon Lajoie was driving an l e cart in Woonsoeket. Prosperity Pros-perity almost carried tho (frenchman, off Ills feet, but the lesson of Mike Kelt, y and some more of us foolish ones was drilled Into him lie cut out the "red oyo," got a bank Isn k. and today he Is king of them all and trotting rb h Ho dl ' n't intend to pot off the writ, r v ! and go back t the ice cart. The difference differ-ence hetv.e. n King K'llev and Kmp. r..r Lajolo is th' difference between the old Style and tho new In all kinds of sport, and the stayer Is tho man behind tho pi- dgc, Kelley died early. Ldjole grows hotter every year, and if he were to take up boxing box-ing he oonld sprint faster than Corbett, punch as hard 11 s myself, pet away as quick as Fit 3 and handle his lists like Tcmmy Ryan Moreover, his hat fits. t call the attention of nil the temperance lecturers tO Tirrj- Lajoie as one of (be best examples they can use In their business. |