Show I Pitiful Story o of How Hov TL Terry erry McGovern Insane I and Penniless Disposed of o in Few Years Has la Terry rey any McGovern-any l Gove nanY manc money to today today to- to to-I to day any If I. I not If-not noL how I ll did ho hu l i through th tho ho thousands ho must mUl have earned during hl hIj biJ great ring c career Did Dd h he hp spend itin dissipation Did the racetracks racetracks' race race- tracks tracks' get gel It it Questions of or this kind have often oren be bt been n nl asked ell with wIh n no s satisfactory satis satis- H- H factory a acor dory lH An I Investigation o mm wax was and amid with wih the time assistance of or Sam IL l Harris McCO c original m manager a anti A Joe Humphries ries who managed the great little lighter during the Iho tt last Jast years wf C hi his ring career w uro aro able to give in iii II facts and ami ant figures the Uie tc story of how 11 McGovern lot It hundreds hun hUI of ur thU thousands slip through h his I Ih To compile compi Ie o the accorn tables of 01 01 McGovern's earning and expenditures ex c- cc- cc pond rc r Harris and I Humphries Hum thin went through old bool bookkeeping accounts covering ten years of Mc- Mc Govers Gover's life lre with the result that could coull be more mor official and and exact the most meat modest of or all al Hying t prize fighters disposed d of oC OUO Itt Ift eleven yearn cal Td Today ay ho hasn't l a a font cent In the Ule world His money moncy-mak- ling r lug ability IH is gone go li his r r. real 1 estate Is 18 heavily JY mortgaged a cowl and 11 but for fur the lie generosity of his friends the lie lumu Insurance policy on cli Oi bl his bS life lr pr Would ouid voul Q premiums s. l layso for rOl non of cC Jc family at I consisting of or a wIre wife and child Ar Are p 1 ll With Ith them It I hU tins has b coro a a. a serious struggle U tWP Wl dollars to them formerly form form- cb erly represented entel a mere slip ship of or paper s nr arc to today ln sources oC or serious nc Co concern I llo to MCI cl blurted t Itc I. I I l tj carts ca ago t in f industrious lit lit- 1 Un Ind Indas vas taS as seated tam ou tU a rickety et old attached lachell to o a more rickety 1 C and driving ln IllI through h rain all l nail snow peddled Vc vegetables I through the I etH of C Ir Brooklyn Up to that timmie his hiPs earnings since his birth hadn't reached 10 0 a u week An And today this same little bot body Is incurably In insane oe a after r earning carDIng more than 20 He has ha disposed of or every cent of or it I. I hearted Generous Generous heartel Crl friends are preparing to 10 lo a a great benefit benum performance that his bbs bl family faintly may may live lve ami aW that ho may ma spend spond In comfort his declining lays days In a saul sani Inq tall um Briefly that Is i time the tory of or the lie life nt ur Terry erry Now how mild did t this modest immodest little l prize lighter rid I ii himself of or that thai that lu- lu sum of or monc money a ut Cent lula Today Notwithstanding all ull al stories lo tu thc lie I contrary Terry err McGovern today l Is i penniless His Immense Imn fortune is I pone gone ono His Ills wife and child chil arc are struggling ing In to earn carn a living The Thc fighter himself himself him him- self Is hI In a a private sanitarium in Connecticut Con Con- and amid the tho hilts bills his for hi his care and treatment are aro alO met wot b by friends who profited by McGovern's victories in Um tho days zenith when his lila career creer reach reached el Its Is At this time lime Terry Ferry had n beu-n hool fighting for three years ean am and amI he lie heUl still Ul had hal a lar large c account in the bank He lie 10 b began gul lending lend lend- ing money moncy lo tu friends but in lii his his ig ignorance ignorance ignorance ig- ig norance of or business s methods never nover even kept m a 0 tab oC or these thele which finally aggregated something I like Itc As 5 At his Ils mind is a blank to today loday ay there Is no noU U way of or collecting I these loans loans Sll Spent nl Money on out Oi IJ 1 ln In laving Seoul seen been time IO he lie labored lab Jab ored under under- before time tlc Ot QC Othis otlis hl his lis fighting career cameos Tern le began n lie Uie giving of oC dinners all al over the country tb ib Jc newsboys lo Ho was at Ul once the lie of or every VC street urchin in America J Tn lii this h he IU spent spi-nl 2001 2000 1 Ah As Ae was wa a nW modest liver al at hume home Mr Ir Hairis HarTis estimates that thai his expenses as he hc had hul no rent to lo pay did lid no not run over o er QU Ten j years ears would mal make mako o tins Ills amount 25 I sun StIll thai lint Is a more mere bagat bagatelle to time the ai he disposed l ISDO-l of r. r Ho lie Io bought t diamonds too in quantities quan quan- titles ties Q pr Il r himself el and his Ills wife Ono Instance in instance jn- jn stance Is 11 mentioned to show his desire for or diamonds Ho lie Io had lind left homo lionie hOlo carl early in iii th the day lay promising to return by noon Sam Something l delayed him him until 3 and to the tho little Ille lighters lighter's s lea idea he lie had IntO lo tu home hom a ml Tr-rry Tr got Dl ll tIme the squarer might light awa away It ii I was a shaped heart locket et cu cured eed red with wih ll diamonds and cu coU 1 something like lie 1000 No one knows v whal became Q of time the diamond collection I j His Ills Racing Ventures Ht McGovern's McGover's real spending ability lid did not nol disclose itself until after aCer the death of ot his little boy and that was the lie beginning be be- ginning o of his mental decay lie He conceived the time idea of or making his brother a a Jockey and tho thu stories of or hi his tUI turf speculations tIlled filled Iho tho lie hews hows- papers for roi weeks To ro begin with he purchased el the time horse Ocklawaha and amid selected and green for his racing rac ruc- tog Ins colors Following this he lie bought One Eyed Connolly Connoly Con Con- For these best nolly nohly noly Spring Sliming Beauty hOl horses r he lie paid and engaged a n of ot trainers trainer jockeys os and stable boys for CUI which he lie paid palt a n year ear for Cor two years ears Saving Having Ira tho utmost confidence In iii his Judgment o of race race- horses hores Terry TelY bet on oti his entries utah and 31 lost In this 1 way He lie was wm a guo good thing fur for the hc Ito bookmaker His racing stable lale failed and Phile mIld did tl not by- by lt- lt coin o a Jockey e Tho rho of or 59 5 had hai proved a total lo loss Not Nol tho thin least lS I tl Terry Torry TIIT earned moro more money In the thc ring and stalled Jut lo tu buck hlll a u book at al time tho race ru-ie- tlc track He reasoned that limit if the bookies book book- ics ies beat him he hc could take the the bookmakers bookmakers' boot book makers makers' nd an and amid beat the others s Uel his Judgment Was tOas l wrong mong On a again aln Ills Uli lo losses es In Lii laying oll odds in amounted l to 25 G- G abandoned and that lint was These h heavy avy strains on omi 01 hl his finances es c began lean to tell lel and the tIme real Ical Was s mOlt mortgaged It I has las IQ H been beon re- re Time Tho money secured in lii this Oils w tit t. Ml in iii the same samo way Mr lr Harris hills Har Jur- Jur ris rig and Mr 11 Humphries have ha e failed ab- ab 1 ant to lo account for Cor o of the Iho thoI I money lY spent During Durin all al this lime hue Harris stuck lo tu tuIi I Ii ills his little champion and amid thought though he lie w will i not nol lut alm admit I It I. I II friends of or orthe the two Iwo s say that McGovern IGo ern today owes Harris thousands of lolar dollar When Terry's Terrys 1 pitiable con condition llon became 1 known Mr II Harris came caine all al lie tho wa tia way 1 0 from the thu thue West e t to look after ater him Nuts Now Io that thai money moue I is need needed el Harris and n Humphries his second manil manager m have started the tho benefit performance that thai Terry ma may yet ct live in iii comfort The recent eccentrIcIties of or ern are well tech wel known to lo tho he renders readers of or today You all 1 know lo how he lie went to Washington n tul accompanied b by a private vu vale vate h secretary called caled on eu the tic President dent and then raised raisel a a because ho nt coull got get et a special train to carry him tutu to lo New Now York Later ho lie was ll discovered wilh co a t six six- pound shell bohi from a n battleship trying to explode It in Ill il front of oC his Mis 11 house That was wu the time beginning of oC the end enl A Afew Afew few Cew days later 1 by deception Sam Sant am liar Har ris Humphries s and amid others curried carried him hll to tl the iho where ho lie loday topa iho lie doc tuns Is Insane Wu have havo heard of or who f fortunes g in i. i riotous living but little Ule Te Terry r McGovern presents the 10 ro- ro Instance of an an hay boy tny nr a fortune trying to do o what whal In lie thought wits Was |