Show Fill rt GOVERN DIXON COR R ETT JOINED WN AND OUT ClU I June Julie 25 Sitting 25 Sitting be be- Ube too National Sporting e Dixon eDixon Dixon Young Cor Corr McGovern were Intro Intro- ral al Philosopher j irful tul l story said he wy of the the life life of these fighters the greatest ii b have been seen in ie f Any Anyone ono one of them orth today if the three together Wight benight ight Dixon Dixon McGovern and weight feather Cham- Cham United States for more moro r rears ars At their best test Bible eible in iu the ring they pular favorites the they they- y yupon upon thousands of dole dol dol- e went ent the cocktail 1 down and out Corg Cor Cor- r g t to- to start a saloon in in rovern is th the ward of a aChas ahas lh Chas has s raised funds for iron xon is dependent upon thelmen who admired be beaten l lighters fighters who wouldn't foe in the ring sue sue- man man behind the bar oar bar philosopher sopher The man manias 1 put out pets states states- pals eals No matter how bow howL bowL I L swings wingS and punches a sleeve no mat mat- i strong stron he may be he hem rho m man n behind the bar baree ee e him im g rewards than vird vir vir- d fame for instance rs of f age now Had he lif life that the best belt fight fight- s he e might still have i non I Bob Fitzsimmons wU till the weight middle t a end and Bob has excesses rid d orbett are only 28 8 ugh gh to be bo just in their Jb h of If them have hae been r several pe years Every made for them and for frie friends ds but they have i tek into condition and andi i mp i-mp up again and every h he hex didn't have tR ve sense ense live decently and andun un Lin The enchantresses cocktail route held tha were st steel el as well n years ais ago in Frisco Dixon had fought with rJ when he was still in le ero lof of the ring I saw l about bo t Turk s street reet all an he could hardly aped an d up against a lamp orge Dixon the great- great that that ever lived cham cham- Of f the wor world d said Lb- Lb belthe the 0 greatest very sewer ewer w months Sally Solly Smith in tl twenty rounds The St the championship of ofIl Il Jordan Gordan in twenty five Il had begun He Ire er that but he be lost unable to stop fighters fighters' ka to seep sleep in a awas Las was his liis class clas not his saved d him from anni anni- Bar IOl this way for three i i og d to lo keep himself f aTIl b never enever he be tra trained awed a flash of his old I ras that Terry McCoy fame me Terry Terr like a sweeping the little men hey l were going down three four five LEi H seemed invincible rugged never stopping Uthe was like a small lI hus Thus the came camer I r rw weight r-weight ight champion had the first part pat of fork cork before a mig mighty ty roadway Athletic club t the e little terror I from the G hammered the champion till he was a pitiful si sight ht Battered and beaten his his' manager Tom threw the sponge into the ring to keep his Dis man from being knocked into insensibility Terry had won with the help of the theman theman theman man behind the bar The little fighter who had held the championship of the United States since he had stopped Cal McCarthy in m two twenty rounds in Troy in the first part of 1891 nine 1891 nine years years was was a dead one at the age of 30 20 Refusing to he heed d the lesson that had been taught by the careers of Jack Demsey Demey t the e mighty mighty- nonpareil and John L. L Sullivan the lion Hon of the ring he had become as useless s as a astray astray astray stray deuce before a royal al flush When it was too late he learned that mu muscle cle and whisky dont don't mix mix- Terry remained a hitting hard sober and industrious young man for twenty twenty- two months Many of the ambitious little men of the ring met him but they either went down or fought draws and they Were some of the best in the game Then h he ho met Young Corbett and in in two rounds he was out unconscious scions on the floor of the pavilion at Hartford He didn't believe that the Denver bov boy could do it again but when they met i five ve months afterward in San Francisco Terry Telly went down again That was more than four y years ars ago I Broke Terr Terrys Terry's s 's Heart The second defeat seemed to take the heart out of the Brooklyn cyclone and he who once fed on the adulation of the of his coun countr country found a new bracer bracer booze The exhilaration exhilaration that had come with victory was now manufactured d in a new way and aud Terry drew from the bottle the joy that he be had formerly got from the bat battle le There were of course other potent reasons reasons rea rea- sons for his lapid rapid decadence but they would not have counted had ho he Ie not matched himself a against the man behind be be- hind the bar barr rind And nd he went ent down to physical and mental wreckage the story of which h all know He has come back a little of the way now but he is not the old Terry and he knows it At 28 he ho is a shorn lion instead of a great fighter Even before Young Corbett had tasted of international- international fame he had started on the path which is is trod by th the sirens f c-f f the cocktail it route When he be rose to fame i in Colorado Colorado he began his bid career at the tile Chesapeake Chesapeake-a a famous cafe in Denver Denver- Denver and and nd when he reached NeW York he continued at atthe the etro pole that insane life wherein tho the stomach comes conies before the brain It took years of such an avalanche down the gullet tb to make flabby the muscle that had nad put out Terry McGovern But the man behind the bar was patient He kept on pouring and at last Young Corbett in was He went out to San Francisco in 1904 to fight Jimmy Britt and h he lost i in in t twenty rounds He Hemet Hemet met Battling l Nelson Kelson and nd he lost ag again iD Five months later Nelson Neson put him out for the second time Then Eddie Hanlon HanIon Han Han- Ion lon beat him and ana Aurelo Herrera and Dick Hyland good second raters put him away When Lord Byron was very young he wrote a poem which began with these these lines Fill the goblet again for I never before Felt the glow that now gladdens my heart to the core Let LetIS us IS drink who would not since through lifes life's varied round In III the goblet alone no deception is found Now NoVi with all respect to a gre greman grea gret great greatman reat t man continued the Moral Philosopher Philosopher pher ler Byron Bvron wa was a liar He drank enough to know better than to teach such a doctrines doctrinA Theres There's more moro tion in six glasses of liquor th than n in all the that ever lived lived Jived |