| Show THE DOWNWARD ROAD AN exchange s in this this fashion upon the ordinary fate of professional josh billings long iong ago remarked in his bis quaint way that when a man begins to go to the devil it does seem as if tile the ways were greased this seems to be the late fate of john L sullivan ever since he v ent to england and was bened by charley mitchell his bis former glory lias has fallen from him lie he is now trying to run a circus in boston the other night he be was threshed in a barroom bar room fight hv bv a party of ion longshoremen sh his circus hayand pa pay yand and no longer draws and john manages to keep druck all of the time the chances abts are re that he be will end u up as a tramp his sudden breath fa p n carlt larley y flown to the was mike mccool Jc Cool a similar bruiser who met his death by bv fall alling off a steamboat inte thi the fisses sippi pa river ie had long been e cm aloyed anber on her as a roustabout hie giving him ke no better fositt tl q than that most pugilists Dusi lists bowlyer bo weyer come to a worse ending than tills they usual usually dle die from consumption the result 0 of yd dissipation i 8 sips tion or lug ine 1 in fact the end of most sports is pitiable the very meaning of the term implies a foot fool who is engaged in a breakneck attempt to see hew quickly he can so go to the devilo devil it would seem hata hat a professional pugilist who has to study the he lesof health would knew new enough to gokoo kilow bow to 0 o keep his bis system in percept con COD dialon bu but this is apparently Y tp very thing that they do not do |
