| Show ONE CONNOLLY I I SEES HIS LAST FIGHT Oddest Odest t Character in Sporting Life Who Saw All the Big Bouts and Had a Cent One Eyed Connolly who ho saw more big bg prize tights fights than any man In n the country country and nd who ho had probably not riot earned carried a cent In twenty nty years died a a. a few dDs days ago at tile tIe Chicago So Bridewell r lie ilo was 5 sent nt there some time ago aso for Car In In- In Later he caugh cold and died lIed of or pneumonia Connolly was tho the oddest character connected with the tho boxing game Ho He st started out to to b be a tl lighter fighter but It was was too much like work Je b bc became c me a hang hang- on er-on and finally a hobo and no hobo who attached himself to any other class of oC people eVer er made more of or a a. success of or it than Connolly Money rone never worried Connolly He started out to see sec Sullivan fight Kil- Kil rain and had only l 15 cents In his pocket He saw aw the fight and returned with 15 1 How W h he got ot there Lack back or came 5 no tied ned himself K one ever knew Connolly simply car car- cIr along with a sharp tongue onU If It he asked something of or mid and a man was refused the followed from Crom r m Connoll were man shiver enough to make nc an any anyOn On his nerve Connolly Connoll went to France to sec ee Sullivan and Mitchell fight It was not known that h he had left crt America until he hc bobbed up a at the r ringside at and yelled Knock his block off Jawn When hen Corbet C Corbett and FItzsImmons FItz FItz- sImmons ought fought at Carson n City C Connolly got a aboard one tC or of the SI special P trains train ou out or of Chicago On the tho road he was ed or of Stealing and put orr the train lt at Ogden Utah When the crow crowd gathered at the tho ringside there was SiSS S Sat in to a front scat It was vas a 3 mystery how ho he arrived at places places' an and 1 more of or n a one n as to how he got tickets o of 4 lon but he hc did Connolly Connoll lost an m e eye about twenty years cars a ago 0 and hence his hia nickname About two years ago he became violent In New York and was put in a strait strait- Jacket When hen he recovered re he came to Chicago an and remained There C l Is one story which is true In ln e cr every particular which Is often orten told when his hiE is mentioned name It occurred at a club near Hear o at a n bout between tween Tomm Tommy White and Ike Weir Parson DavIes thc was the manager and he had orders orden to given not admit Connolly under any circumstances Throe Three times had he tried to pass the doorkeepers Teen and M mt many times been thrown out b by those in charge chargo Davies was waR In the ring making tho the usual preliminary preliminary pre pre- speech when a crash was heard and a a. brick landed in the ring The Parson looked ool cd at the thc window through which it entered looked at the brick and th then n calling to the nearest doorkeeper said Raid Mr 11 1 Connolly has just sen sent In his card will you ou plea please e admit him |
