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Show J ' - !, 1 I f ' - - . . w - -J . Hi-' ii LJ s' ; t i " - - f- r . r -- a r " " " lj - .j'C 1 -J ' liH'. . li- J Li , I'Tcrr Terry McGoyern," V-wned a .follower of pugilism in the back room tf t-Tet the other night, and before, the echo died away it opened tha fiood-fatrs fiood-fatrs of memories and recollections of fHtcrs famous a decade ago, but now merely rlc recollections, and many of -whom tavejven passed from the pajres of the record books. Soma are dead, many are living, a few are rich, many are poor, wtile soma are ia abject poverty pov-erty and the objects of charity, i , Lessons can be draws from the fate of past stars by present day celebrities, celebri-ties, but lessons will not be drawn. Tha model men of the ring, like model men in other walks of life, live in the House of Plenty, while tha merry men of the flagon and lords of the wild wassl are tenants of the House of .Want. Let's begin with the tenants of Madame Ma-dame Plenty. Corua ic Ones, v Y Tom Sharkey is a wealthy saloon man In New York, and has chandeliers in his placo for anyone who wants to play them. , Jim Corbett is an actor cf ability and grace. Kid McCor is a jeweler and Little Marty McCue is a New York Assemblyman aad casts his vote at Albany, not according, to Hoyle, bat according to Tammsnv. Xeorge "Elbows" McFadden owns a row or flats. George began life as a Innitor of "McFadden's Row of 'lats." Martin Flaherty is - in the real estate basinets in Lowell. Mass. Wilmington Jack Paly is litigating .over vast properties left .by a Dr. Dougherty, his godfather, and to which ha claims teirabip. Jack Root collects rent around Chicago. Tommy Ryan is the owner of a celery farm in Michigan. Michi-gan. A fellow named Dunf ee, who was a fair sort of scrapper in his day. is a big contractor in Buffalo. Jfhimy Bntt owns a flock of fiats in San Fran Cisco worth $60,000. There may be a few other fighters who have money, but at present they slip the writer's recollection, recol-lection, v . . t . Down and Qnters. From the well-fixed pugs to the members mem-bers of tha "Brokers' elub" is an easy transition. John L. Sullivan is far from being in want, yet he is just as far from having wealth. Aad that recalls two other Sullivans, Spike and Dave. Both ae charter members of the D. .4 O. elub. Spike' is still fighting some, but he is all in. Four months ago Tim Callahan knocked him out in four rounds up in Canada. Eddie Connelly is a bartender bar-tender up in Boston. Kid MePartland is working in a poolroom in New York. Billy Myers, the Streator Cyclone, is superintendent of the. Fair Grounds race track at New Orleans. Jack Me-Auliffe, Me-Auliffe, one-time champion and the lighter member of, the three American Jacks, owns a race horse at New Orleans. Or-leans. Austin Rice, the original Iron Man, ia driving a lumber wagon. Tim Kearns is holding his own and grabbing grab-bing as much of everybody elsa's aa he can. He 'a a . plumber ' at Lawrence, Mass." . ' V Poor Kid Carter is dead. Like Me-Govern, Me-Govern, New York Jack O'Brien is insane. in-sane. So's Hughie McPadden. Jack McClelland is a brickmaker at Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Pa. McCloskey Is Blind. Elwood McCloskey, - the great trial horse, is probably tha most unique figure fig-ure in pugilism today. It .was he who fave McGovern his hardest fight when erry was considered invincible. Elwood El-wood is now blind, but he runs and owns the Keystone Athletic elub of Philadelphia. Frank MeConnell is an advertising agent. Tommy West is a plasterer, ana making things stick at the Fail-mount hotel. George Green, the original Young Corbett, is running a saloon. He is stul willing and able to fight. Kid Lavigne received bis quietus th other night when Young Erne knocked him out. In and Out Kid. Young Griffo is the "in and out kid" around Chicago. One day he is in thepoorhouM ana the next day he is out. Frank Erne is a boxing instructor instruc-tor and trains Harlem Tommy . Mur PhJack Bu'rke, who fought the longest I fight on record with Andy Bowen at New Orleans, is an actor man. He married a niece of P. T. Barn urn. The latter was always stags struck and, although she sometimes wore as much aa $10,000 worth of diamonds, . she never aid better in stageland than secure se-cure a heavy thinking part in tha second sec-ond row .of Musketeers or Spear Amazons. Ama-zons. Charley Sieger has got back to his first love, and again arduously pursues pur-sues the profession of an expert bootblack. boot-black. It's back to the mines with Jack Bonner, and he is again making little ones out of big ones at 8ummit Hill, Pa. Jim Jndge ia a waiter in New York. Tim Hurley is doing the best he can and everybody he can in Butte. On Water Wagon. Harry Fisher, one-time rising middleweight-, is on the water wagon. He is driving a soda cart in Brooklyn. (Laugh here.) 8mart little Joe Cain is a bookkeeper in Drake's office in Wall street, New York. Matty Matthews is doing a diving stunt in Luna park. New York. Poor old George Dixon is being hammered ham-mered and buffeted about on an adverse ad-verse sea, but he ia still ia tha ring. Harry aad Clarence Forbaa are hack-men hack-men In Chicago. Johnny Connors is a saloon-keeper at Springfield, HI. Johnny Ritchie tried to shoot a double-barreled shotgun from the wrong end recently and ia dead. George Kerwin, the famous mystery, is paralyzed. Jimmy Handler is hollering, "D-r-a-w one," in Chicago. Jack Mof-fett Mof-fett is a gf ntleman of leisure in the same city. Sammy Kelly, the one-time champion of the world, is with the crack jockey, Winnie . O'Connor, in France. Patsy Haley is down and out. Peter . Matter won a fight the other night. He licked his mother-in-law. Joe Goddard was killed in an election row at Merchantville, N. J. Johnny Regan, who - fought Frankie Neil his first severe fight at Los Angeles, is guardian of a funnel in a saloon in St. Louis. "Mistah" Frank Craig is in England. Eng-land. Charley Golf and Jack Stelzntr are both policemen. Dan Creeden and Tim Hagerty are both back in Australia. Aus-tralia. - |