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Show PET HOBBIES OF OUR v GREAT PRIZE FIGHTERS Tribune Special Sporting Sevvire. NEW YORK, Dec, 5. It Is curloua what a lot of fads tho famous pugilists cultivate. Jeffries would rather talk dog ; than any othor subject. For hours at a i stretch he will sit up with a bunch of cronies and discuss tho dog family. He owns a number of fighting dogs on his farm near Los Angeles. Jm Corbtt's great fad Is .acting beforo tho footlights. Ke la really In love with tho profession and devotes all his spare tlmo to Improving Im-proving himself In this line. Joe Gans is a gambler of the first walor. In his day he has spent something like $100,000 , on pamea of chance. Ho is also fond of game chickens. Old Jem Mace, the oldest ex-champion nllvo. Is a violinist of great ability. Tommy Biims's fad Is money. He has the financial beo in his bonnet- Ho has mado a close study of Investments and banking systems. John L. Sullivan's pet fancy Is tolling comic, or alleged comic, stories. He considers con-siders himself one of the b3t raconteurs of humorous Incidents in the world. Joe i Walcott. the once giant killer, is a pian-i pian-i (st. Bob Fltjisimmons's fads aro cooking and the taming of wild animals. On his big Jersey farm "Ruby Robert" does all the catering himself. Outside the ring Terry McGovorn considers himself oome pumpkins as a baseball player.' |