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Y of MY LIFE Lilt u I 1 J J I CHAMPION OF THE WORLD t 1910 by Newspaper Syndicate copyright in Canada and aDd Great Britain All AH rights reserved CHAPTER Jait M t Alter After the Battle BatUe 4 c t to be a. a worlds world champion back to m my dressing room behind me roe in the 11 dazed I felt as if I were wera walk walk- air it ft Tho The crowd was surging over Ofer ft I and lind into th the aisle to shake d a as U I J hustled by Delaney and nd e 1 Jack and the re rest reit t put their together ether to make wa way for me side Ide we lock locked d' d the door and nd nd all U around till remember Just Suet how par parched hed it at wa was wu I called for something and Billy Dilly handed me ml a 11 quart r wine wine I 1 u up ended the bottle plied Jt It at Atone one gulp Then after Drubbed down and dressing we through the waiting crowd and ek ck to N New Nw w York where I spent the night at Everard Turkish nd 1 ih tho rest reat at the tho Vanderbilt yo rold old d hangout tine fine to hear everybody cheering I that that but th the tho best besl thing of all aU V few hour hours later when a boy 00 t telegram from my mother It Jt 4 glad lad you won th the victory you youn youa fen n a working for Mother ther ither wired wishing me good luck ling irig Ing me his hIB ble blessing There were ji by br b tho the hundred from my old In In California of course One iber ber b r. r was from a friend of at mine min mento m nto George Lindenfeld He lie lier r Hurrah Th They cant can't beat Yo m- m trees tes or Big DIG Jim king lug that fight over o t today dB I dont don't ow low I T l could have hae handl handled d my 01 end better ter I wa was cautious cc all nil the tho tood stood up to he could punch at m me hut but never hever nevery hevery r y head bend either cither when hen he was WaIl rush- rush 11 hardest or when I h had d him golf got go go- lf t had 1 planned to use m my crouch y that would puzzle him and mak to to reach reath either m my chin or m my in ii h. and I I. I didn't change cl m my plans ring I 1 had planned to beat beM him with 1 body punches punch as ho ha rushed and I carried that through the The bod body punches punches' sapped a 1 strength condition hardly have been although I J believe e I 1 waR wan drawn wn i p too too fine and might havo hao felt It had gone much longer I j de then that a ft rIghter fighter should hb 11 Ic legs ju Just t because COrbett and imons rimons had thin logs So In train train- nm an my legs nearly off otT on tho the road toad frer fr ere thin I was wan too fine I think weighed hed less lees than e cr before fore or orn In n Ii the ring I scaled d only Oj j I Stripped tripped Afterward I mn macic c up nd Ind never ne to get gH so o low again and k ci that with more moro of m my natural 5 r on all I 1 had moro more speed and th h. h- h Immone immons I I Judge must have has pd 1 about liO pounds pound Just b tor tt t Julian wanted to announce t. t I 1 V i. i t I y AT 1 P as US pounds because he the middle weight as B well hea heavy weight championship Brady rullan If Jr they did that t h hed he'd d hare havo eight announced d as pounds pound and backed 1 down runn funny how success changes ngos a tel tel- of ot things When hen the re reI reI reft re- re I ft flocked 1 around me after th the I r told them that I liked th tho east Mst d tb to around New York Yorka il a 1 part of at m my time and go on l i iere re It was a a. little different from froma a 1 1 l felt after alter the fight with Arm- Arm r. r But everybody everybody- wa wu roasting me and now everybody e was slapping ithe back and making ml me mo feel feci at t tf f heres h re another funny tunny thing Billy Iwas was so o sure Id I'd win that he had d da d a tack stack of ot big pouters posters James J J. J Jeffries champion of t the i to use on or the rond road right after ghi cht He was wee gambling of ot course wouldn't have havo been worth a Il nickel lad iad lost after atter the tIght fight I was to box with Jim Daly at the themy themy my of or music In Philadelphia I Showed a mark from the battle ulI My knuckles were n n 8 a little JItU from Irom pounding him and land wa was as a 0 small strip ship of f plaster on but the cut there didn't it to anything M My Iy shoulders were rom rem the tho work I had done I slept 10 o'clock In the morning before ng for Philadelphia and felt fit tit fitt lit t again that night Grover r Cleve- Cleve was on the same train when I 1 Id d ed d' d It n with o mv 01 my brother brothel Jack Billy BUh ey eYe 7 Billy Brady and Tommy Ryan f but I 1 guess the ex president dl didn't see aee so 80 much a as a porter that day Everybody Everybody Every Every- body connected with the railroad was h In my car ur At Jersey City after fter crossing the Twenty-third Twenty street treet ferry erry jerry there thero was wu such a ruth rush from the crowd that they had to tend send me mo up a freight elevator at atthe atthe the depot to get away I 1 was wo getting my first nt taste of at real popularity It was Wu amusing at first After a a. while lIe Ill I'll have to admit I got Kot awfully tired o of Ot It Those were bul busy days dan for the new champion plon The day after atter showing in Philadelphia I umpired a ball game at Paterson Peterson Monday night I went to see Handler and Walsh fight at Coney Island IslaM Tuesday night I 1 was waa in Boston Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day MY I split up between n Hartford and Providence Thun Thursday av night I aha showed wed in Buffalo Friday y afternoon I was waa billed at Rochester Friday ay night at Syracuse and on S Saturday I ap appeared eared again at Coney Island Af After er that I 1 went west- west with rifles an and rapid fire tIre gun guns a There w was s no al sign of ot modern modem life Ute along th the green and white shore line It all looked without a doubt Just as It looked two thousand years yean ago alo And all allot of this gave me the queerest queerer feeling fooling I ever experienced It seemed as u It if I could remember in Sn every detail detal Just as u the thoughts flashed through m my mind swift Journeys over those green gree greenhills hills In tho the distance a a little way bac back from the cliffs keeping always in th the hollows hollow and In the cover an and never neve coming quite into the open along th the tho cliff edge edlO like In a hostile country I I. I seemed to remember r fighting In broad valleys valley away back tk beyond an anthe anthe and the clash of ot steel ane and the yells of ot th the fighters all around me and an that my side aide was beaten and giving ground and that I knew an and we all knew the country people would h hang nl on ou our i F I 1 I I WITH H i tREAT k V rt 1 t I. I B ILL ET T hOLE HOLE ward ar showing at the large cities along the route Before going west however I had a pleasant experience Admiral De Dewey vey was lying In the Hudson river with his fleet aboard his hin flagship tho the Olympia Somebody Somebody Somebody Some Some- body suggested that the worlds world's greatest greatest great great- est eat ring champion ought to pa pay his re- re to the worlds world's greatest sea fighter I was ns more than anxious to see Dewey Dency for I always had hatt a great admiration for forthe forthe the tho man who sailed into Manila b bay y at night over o tho the torpedoes and sl slammed the daylights dalIght out of oC tho the Spanish fleet lying at anchor ther there So I went aboard in state Tho The admiral ad Rd- mimI miral had me brought down to his cabin and congratulated me on winning the championship I told him that my punch wasn't n a circumstance b beside his and he ho laughed laughe 1 like a a. good fellow Then we ne had a little talk and as I went Tent over the side again he wished me luck In tho the fu tu- tu ture I guess it was vo a good wish for tor the luck has surely stuck to me CHAPTER I Go to England On the of July a month and a halor halt hall hallor or so 80 after beating Fitzsimmons I wen went to England Bill Billy Brady and my mv brother brothe Jack wore were with me It was r rl ry y first lon long Ions trip a wa from Ever Eve away m my roy own country since I was a bo boy Id I'd to see Me th theland the tho tholand land where my 01 ancestors carried the tho sword and the centuries ago The da day when we approached approach d the I Inglish Ing- Ing ng- ng lien Ush coast was Mas one never to be forgotten The weather was wall clear ar and cool The Tha sea was Wf blue under the sun eun and a u. haze 10 lay along the horizon Jack and 1 walked up and down the deck and noun hours before the chalk cliffs of M r old England rose abo above the tho horizon we f lt that the they tho were there When I saw them at t last las it almost gave vo mo me a a. shock fo for or it seemed as 88 if Ie I had looked on those same ditto cUeto a n hundred times Umes before before before-as as If Ie I hail always nl al- al ways known every ery Jutting point nail and cr c dip in the cliff cUff level le whore the llio tie gie gien Hn n hills lulls sloped down to the edge of the white walls wall that gleamed like glaciers In the the- sun As w we wr tine stoan d 1 nearer I could see lee that It was a wild country along tile the edge of ot the tho cliffs ellas all harts hart green hills with not even en a cottage gp showIng showing showing show show- ing an as far tar as the eye eyo could reach I tell fell the same feeling that must have hayo conic come over oer the ancient mt Phoenicians and Homans Homans Ho ito- mans wh when n they came exploring alon along tho the coast cout in their galleys 8 and seLl the channel to the distant chores of or Al Al- bion hion and o over o r my ray own on Norman ances ances- tors lore when they thy c came caine me raiding I ran m eye Ce along along- the edge edgo of tho diCta curt locking for tor a landing spot and wondering what wha would happen It if a a. body of f t determined men armed with spears and short hor swords landed from a galley and raided back Into those ancient looking hills 1 It seemed as 38 if It ancient Britons would be lying In ambush with their bows and or Dr- er- er rows rather than modern English soldiers t T A I I 11 I I j i O 1 Bot A. A h t I b t e c. c 11 t 4 t i flanks like wol wolves s and none of or us would er e see the north again Th Then n there ther W was vos 3 a rally and we turned and fought fough hand to to- hand until of a a. sudden all all alire- alire resistance re re- re melted away and scattered After that the few tew that were left of us marched back from tho the valley In a a. small bod body shoulder to shoulder and only hero here am and there In tho the hills was any attempt made mad to stop us and we cut our way through it easily all that day and until It turned dark Just then Jack spoke to me and th the whole thing faded out and although 1 It had seemed scorned as u vivid a. a as lIt life Its Itself lf with every ory face and figure sharp and clear the details escaped mo me like the details o oa of at ata ofa a dream m I often orten wonder whether that da day daj dream standing there staring at th the chalk cliffs and green hills of England was Just a a. dream or was a recollection brought down to me from my fighting ancestors and awak awakened ned in some mysterious mys mys- way b by my first sight of or tho the t. t t w. rT I 1 1 IT A. A AtY 1 t HC AP C c A A. e l VT land n th they Ety y r raided through and fought in Let the tho scientists settle Que questions like that I give ghe it I up know that I expected ex- ex many a n. thrill of th the same sort eort while traveling around England but when whon we 0 landed everything everything- was smoke and fog and the clatter of or wagons and the tho rueh rush of at trade The Tho feeling left me Only once It returned for Just a a. moment That was one quiet day In the white tower of tho the tower of ot London in a qu Quiet et and deserted deported room stacked high with pieces s of ancient armor annOT T Th r- r T sa saw w w an old Kh a aU great nea t jl Jagged ed bullet hole right through h it from front fron to back Ju Just t about where the edge edgo of a mans man's ribs come I stuck m my ray fingers through the hole holo to to test tut the rag ragged ed edge wh where re the tho broken metal was turned back inside and as I J did cUd so I could feel a shock as If the big iron ball ban had haf gone IOna through my own body I glanced around round at tho the armor of knights and ani lords and kings all nU Jointed together as If It the men were inside For an Instant I had a swift impression that there wore were some lomo I could call by name and whose faces I would know if It their h helmets hel- hel l- l mets were ere off or orl or their visors dropped They seemed to moye move and to turn to toward toward toward to- to ward me And then all of a sudden the Impression passed and there were cre only the steel shells that had once held men men- and tho the stacks of rusty swords and axes and lances piled In the corners and the Jitter SItter of or bits bUs of or armor But I dont don't think It was as so much of ot a day dream that time or or- of tion although It may have been en partly something like that It was na plain Imagination to m my way a of ot thinking I always alwa's had a a. fair amount of Im Imagination tion and ever fr since I was a little t tellow tel fel l- l low Ive I've read every book I could find that told stories about the the old days when men fought Just for tor the tho fun of fighting Whether it was was Im Imagination ln or something something some some- thing else olse It never ne came to me again In England even cn In the ancient walled towns that must h have ve been as aa familiar to o tho the old Jeffries family as Main I trot street In n Los LOI Angeles Is to me toda today It didn't I touch louch me In Ireland or over o In Franco But by that time of ot course everything c seemed moro more commonplace than at firs fireS and d my ray nerves were not on edge for tor fl new flow W Impressions as they were era wh when m I first came to England I was working too showing all over the tho country country- V We 0 had two twenty-two days of oC show work In England and then Sc Scotland and Ireland I 1 worked eleven cloven da days day in Paris Parla and had seven Sevan more to look ook around In and see seo the tho to town n. n A Areat great reat town Paris Pari but I think I 1 liked It better years ears ear afterward on m my second trip rip J A It Tight With t Mr My ant fint x peri nce In London wa wu wai at th the th Royal RoJal Aquarium Brady had out and th the newspapers newspaper all allent allent ent sent men to see aee a me They asked aked me all sorts orts of questions but I didn't feel foel like Uke talking very ry mue much muen so ao o they bey tilled filled their column columns with description of ot how bow I looked and what I Z wore add what bat I at at They wore more interested In what I 1 ate than anything else l o. o On One writer asked me m. If Jt I X ate ato raw nest beet Theold time English Eng Zag- flak lish lighters fighter UI veed ed to eat taW raw meat moat bec because be- be c cause caUl ue they thought It made them more mOTe toro Zero lou On OD too the first night at th the tho Royal 1 Aquarium Aqua MU I boxed four roun rounds round with my brother Jack who went wont on with mo ma under under un un- un- un der some omo other name tack Jack land and 1 I could go CO at It 0 so hard bard that everybody would wear swear we were trying to knock each Other out It looked nice like fight t Jack ha bad Just eaten d dinner i and I punched him in the until nUl he got sore lOre and tore into me for tr all all he w was own worth Then I 1 began n hi swings wing n and for tor the time urae the h began to warm up and aDd cheer cheor T tf T r uld understand un- un the ducking box- box erg er r duck They liked the ray lay Jl Jt 11 handled a a. straight loft too A As A. lo lon lor au d' d you ou stick sUck out your left every ever |