Show Tom loIn Jones Picker of Champions How a Saloonkeeper Made Titleholders of Willard Wolgast and By LEFT HOOK Tom Jones picker of or champions Champions may como come and champions nUl may go but Tom Torn Jones the tho loquacious the gar garrulous the tho noisy alwa s manages manages man man- ages aes to tie to one ono of them Jess Willard champion of oC tho the world is tho the third title holder the thu talkative Thomas has hM had with hardly a break between Bill BIU Billy the tho Illinois thunderbolt was under the Jones wing when he caught Co the great Stanley Ketchell off his guard and sent tent him crashing to th the canvas Co for tho the Ion long count and acquired ac ac- ac- ac temporary possession of the tho mid mid- tile dIe weight ht title Ad Wolgast the tho Michigan bearcat took his orders from Jones when he ho battered the great t Battling B. Nelson to toa toa ton a n pulp and won the tho light weight championship cham cham- In Jn fort forty rounds at Point Richmond Rich Rich- monO nond Jess Jels Willard Villard tIme the Kansas boy co knocked out tho the great Jack Johnson I Ifor for the championship of or the world because the cool Jones sat Soll In his corner cor con ncr ner and made him w wear war ar down his op op- i It wildly Instead of oC mixing and ind going the way of all aU others who 1 had lad faced the black man Back In 1906 Cherokee Tom Jones Jonesi was running a saloon In La Salle Ill down in the soft coal country countr which has las produced so man many man tough fighters 1 In Spring Valley alley a few CeW miles mites aWk away tho the toughest town In the section I with their where everybody e fought meals men DIU Billy a powerful bo boy was mixing up his dally daily operations In tho the mines with a n. Saturday nl night ht battle b. opportunity offered Sometimes Some Sonic times he got 10 for them more often nothing ng But lInt soon cleaned up all aU the ambitious miners of the tho neighborhood and Jones Jones learning of his hili record wiped willed I off oft the bar r locked tho the saloon door and went down own to meet him A couple of oC months later Jones Jonca sold tho the saloon I ITie Tie Imported tough middle weights for I and central Illinois saw W some beautiful battles b. Jones Jonca took him out I of Illinois and kept on bowling them hem over In 1 1309 0 Jon Jones Joncs s saw promise In Ad Wolgast ol ast the thc Cadillac Mich bo boy who had been tl fighting on tho the coast at tho the time of patties with Ketchell A fe few good fights under tho the Jones guidance and Wolgast was the logical conten contender er for Bat Nelsons Nelson's title He lie Henet Hemet met net Bat Hat and then ensued one ono of ot tho the greatest light weight fights of ot all aU times Th The Tho greet great Nelson cut to ribbons and blinded b by his own blood by tho the horrible horn horri ble punches punch s of his younger and smaller opponent nt was so helpless s In the tho fortieth round that thal tho referee stopped tho the fight I anti and awarded the decision to Wolgast as asa asi I Ia a i knockout Then two years ears a ago o after Wolgast had haet lost his title to o Ritchie and Jones saw MW he coul could not continue as a great gnAt tighter tighten he annexed Jess Willard who at tho the time was anybody's fh fighter Jess would have havo fought for anybody who would ret get lt him a n fIrM fight Jones lonen led frd him 4 t 7 I iA 1 j a. a 2 11 i Jt S i 1 4 I a I TOM JONES AND HIS GRIN up to tho greatest championship of oC I Ithem them all Jones' Jones principal hobb hobby Is having I enough suits of oC clothes so he lie can change I two or three times a cIa day and not wear to tho same me suit twice in a n week H He Is the butt o of much humor because of the I boasting ho JIG dO does clots 8 on behalf half of his fighters fight fight- ers era nd his alleged unwillingness nees to I separate arate himself from the price of ot a drink Much of this is 18 greatly Iterated aerated In Ir appearance Toni Tom Jones Jonea Ina In lit isa a n serious business man In tho MrS early forties and his methods have en el enabled enabled en- en him to pile up a nice bundle of real estate which will keep Tom Jones Jonea pretty comfortable after he quite quits th the fl fight ht game Kamp mp |