Show PARSON DAVIES IS NEAR D AT I Interesting Story of the Famous Famous Fa Fa- Sporting Man How Hour He Got His NicKname Was Great Manager OTTO FLOTO FLOT IN DENVER ENVER POST Word has come from Chicago that my InY dear old friend Charles E E. Parson Davies Is at deaths death's dodo J If such should be the case I would indeed feel foel ver very sor sor- ry IT I was In ht former years jears ears connected with Davies was WIlS his lils partner in vaudeville companies and his agent for In lu or I all aU his bl big bis enterprises and probably knew him as well If not better than any other othet man In the country country- lie Ile Is one of fo the h most ost wonderful men 1 I ever ver piet Jnet As a fight promoter and manager manager manager man man- ager of big sporting events there not is Is 19 n not t tat at the present time before the public aman a So m man n following wing the business who could be mentioned in the tho same amo class with him unless perhaps It be Tames James W. W in San Francisco Coffroth comes nearer to being the man Davies was than any other I can think of I The Parson was equally equay at home In the room drawing-room of the or be he could go down on the Bowery Dowery and mix It with the toughest of them When they were boys bos together he and Dick the tho famous and greatest leader that Tammany Tammany Tammany Tam Tam- many Hall Han ever had were chums and many Is the battle they had during those hot election times and when both ran with tire tile machine In the the day dar of the volunteer fire department In Jn Ne New York I City To this da day exists a a. great bond of or friendship between the pair and never does Davies go to Europe that he Is not the guest of of Croker and then the tho talk taUe always drifts drifts' to days of long ago I could sit for d' d days s 's and write about Davies for we wore wora together a a long time The greatest advice I ever received re- re the Parson and he certainly certainly tal ly was wall a a. man who knew right from wrong He was was a real man Jn n all aU the name Implies I will however mention only the most Important happenings of his life Ufa during which time I was with him Wm Charles E E. Davies went to Chicago ago from New York right after aftel th the big lilg fire and located on Halstead street on the I. I West Side d where he with Al Smith 1 owned one of the biggest t gambling bl houses i In the city Then the walking craze pegan pe- pe be began e- e gan and jn n a short time Davies controlled the sport port Do you remember renumber about 1877 1871 when the country was walking crazy Well VeIl It was at this period that Davi Davies s came to the front fast last He gave walking matches all ove ovey over the country and in Eng Eng- land He lie said Al Smith condu conducted ted th the thereat great reat walking match at the old Madison Square garden in that year and it still sUlI stands t today 1 in the matter of receipts e rt as the most successful s sporting 0 even event t this country country- has ever eyer known Davies cleared something like in one week The contestants were were OLeary O'Leary Ennis Harriman and Rowell the latter's first visit to this country During the week OLeary O'Leary broke down and the other three finished with Rowell Howell the winner by a big margin It was d during t this f famous week that Charles ak E. E Davies i S was s christened christened christ christ- ened The Parson a name which has clung to him ever since Here Is how it was It was the second da day of the race and O'Leary's legs were giving him 51 great eat trouble He was also bothered with his stomach and wanted to retire Davies was was was' cunning enough to see that If Jr OLeary O'Leary could be be- kept In the tire race the Interest would k keep ep up and he lie would walk for tor foran toran an hour at a time around the tan bark track with the Chicago letter carrier The late ate William H. H Vanderbilt was seated sealed Ina ina In Ina a a box the walkers when Ed Stokes who owned the Hoffman Hottman house turned and asked Who Is that looking gentlemanly fellow fellow fel fel- low walking around the track so much w with OLeary O'Leary That must be his spiritual t adviser replied Vanderbilt Hs He looks like a parson answered Stokes Some one who knew Davies Davies' very ery well ell sat by and heard the conversation and I from that moment It was The Pars Parson n. n The name has been with him ever since until today it is as well known on the other side of the Atlantic as as as- asit It Is on this side It was Davies who discovered Madam Anderson the great woman walker and who managed the contest when she walked 1000 consecutive quarter ter miles I every consecutive quarter of f an hour Then vl he t took k Johnny T h Doubler bl r one of ot the time greatest please go w walkers the world ever knew to England and was stopped from winning by the mob in Agricultural hall hail London who continually continually continually con con- Interfered with Doubler Then he turned to to the fighters exclusively exclusively Ively and his his' first entertainment In tn Chicago Chicago Chi Cht- cago was between Prof Mike alike Donovan and George Rooks Rooke at the time old Globe theater and the other boxers at that show were George Slier the present well- well known referee and Billy Madden who were partners and traveling throughout th the country Then Jimmy Elliott and Pro Prof V D Dwyer r called for tor his his' attention by knocking out all comers He was known Imolin an as The Boston Roston Strong Boy Doy and afterward afterward after after- ward warel proved to bo be John L. L Sullivan Not however until he knocked out old Joe Toe Goss Coss did he lie u use e his real leal name frame ame Steve Taylor raylor about this time was a great of Harry rr i Hill and on one of Davies Davies' visits to New York T Taylor fo asked him t to get ct a ch chance nce against Sullivan Sullivan Sulli Sulli- van and tho the chance chahee was given him Sullivan Sullivan Sulli Sulli- van knocking him out with ease A short time previous to this Paddy n Ryan Rvan an had won the championship from Joe Goss Gosa Davies never th thought Ryan much of a fighter lighter so flO he went after the Ule Boston Strong Boy and secured his consent to fight Ryan The Parson guaranteed to se secure secure secure se- se cure the backing which was a side Here Is where a strange coincidence com comps comes into the story The man who gave Itayo Davies tho the was waa MII Mike e McDonald of Chicago who died in la that city last Saturday and now Davies Dayles is about to join him Some hitch however occurred at tho the last moment and McDonald l withdrew and Jim Keenan of Boston furnished the mone money Billy Madden at that time wa wM wad ten tending bar for Keenan and was sent to look after his boss boss' interests and arid that is how Madden became Sullivan's Sullivans first manager After the fl fight ht with with- Ryan Davies took Sullivan an to Chicago where In l micks mick's hall he gave his first firste e exhibition after becoming champion Previous to this Sullivan appeared at the same hall halland halland and knocked o out James Dalton In four rounds s with rg McDonald b deg as referee e n After f i that Davies dropped Sullivan and turned his attention toward Jimmy Elliott and Paddy Padd Ryan Rvan The rho former was killed by Jere Dunn Junn a short lime time after and Ryan Ran was was matched to fight Sullivan In San Ran Francisco but I got Ot as far as Salt Lake City CIt and ran away a wa For years years' then Davies Davies' had bad the exclusive exclusive sive privilege of giving boxing shows in es i fi ge Chicago I a and such h men as Mitchell Burke i Clear Cleary Sullivan Greenfield Goode Dalton Dalton Dal Dal- ton Bradburn Tommy Ryan n Corbett fa Hall r Jackson g and a man many others appeared red under tinder his management manage manage- ment In 1889 Davies Da took tool Peter Jackson to England in in the they party were W W. W. W Naughton now sporting spoTting editor of the Sl San n Francisco Examiner Sam Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick Fitzpat Fitzpat- rick and 1 Jack Stoddard 7 Their heir first fight over there was with Jem Smith at the Pelican club dub Jackson Winning in the first round lound Davies always had a a high regard for Jackson and we can best describe his opinion of the big black fellow by quoting l ing rf his own le words The whitest black k man an antha that tha ever er lived d dand and as ag much of ot a gentleman as an any any- noble Wh When n they came back to this country he tuned Jackson and ana in Uncle T Toms Tom's ms m's Cabin and then they separated Davies to engage In the theatrical business business business busi busi- ness In New hew Orleans and Jackson son went back to Australia In a It few years year to die After that navies managed a So tour of the country John L. L Sullivan and Paddy Ryan and also looked after Jimmy Barry the undefeated worlds world's weight bantam and Tommy Ryan He took 1 and Hall to England that ended his connection connection connection con con- with the fighting game He owns the Lyric theater In New Orleans Or Or- leans Jeans at the present time the Crescent Billiard hall In the same city and a big poolroom Financially he rte has plenty of the worlds world's goods He never married because be becauSe because be- be cause ha ho suppo supported ed and educated his hL brothers brother's children One of ot them Is now a mother superior In San Francisco and the rest of them are well married and are the finest young ladies ladles you ou would care to meet Davies was born May 7 r 1853 in Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land and had three brothers James Davies George Davies and Vere Davies The former two are are dead while 1 Vere ere Is at present in Chicago He Ile had four places of business during his career in Chicago the first at 46 South Clark street Randolph street this Is the place where the trouble started between Richard K Fox Fox- Waldron Waldron Valdron and Elliott that led ted to the l killing of the latter tatter by Dunn Jem Jens Jem Mace the old English champion was also present that day Next he bought The Store from Mike McDonald McDonald McDon McDon- ald and n o on the e opening night he was i forced e to o give One Eyed d Connelly the worst beating he ever er got In hla hiI life lite in inor inor inor or out of the ring orTh Th Then with Mike Corcoran he opened 85 South Clark street and afterward gave the place to his brother Vere He Ile became disgusted With kith the liquor liquor- business and devoted all aU his time to theatricals theatricals' there there- after lie He Is at present at the Sherman house in fn the Windy city and his condition condition condi condl- tion is so serious that ho he Is not expected to pull through |