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Show I ! MEMBERS OP SAME FAMILY MADE 1 1 GOOD AS EXPONENTS OF RING SPORT THE old adogo that "blood -will tell" holdfl good In pugilism. It not only frequently tells h tho story of victory or defeat. H I but It has amplv testified that good H fighting ntock runs in families tho H samo as Rood race horses. Tho better M tho fighting blood the better the flght- H ramllles of boxers have answored H the call of tho horsehair mitts and H , have mado good. Pugilistic history H I carries tho names 'of many pairs of H - brothers who elected to exchange H I punches for a living and who save H I more than a fair roturn for tho amount H I recoived. Thero aro numerous ln- I stances of one member of a clan start- H ing in tho fistic business to be followed J i up by a jounger brother to whom suc- H cess camo Just as readily as to tho boy Hl I tvho took the first step toward a ring Hl ' Sullivnns Are Notables. Hl Tho greatest of these, numerically H speaking, wcro the Sullivnns. That 1 1 name will ftjrcx'or be associated 1th tho atmosphere of tho boxing aerna ; H first, possibly becauso John L wrcath- H od it with pugnacious fame, but prln- H cipally because thero seem to have H been more battling Sulllvans than ' maulers 'of any other denomination. I Thero arc four Sullivan brothers In ; H the game today 'Not all are membera H of tho samo family. Two lines of hu- H manlty aro represented by them Foro- H ( most are tho Cambridge (Mass.) twins, H Jack and Mike. Sinco tho timo of ' John L these bojs have upheld the H name of Sullivan. Jack has been en- H paged in the task nearly thlrtocn years Three years ago ho was almost a i champion. H That was beforo the renowned Stan- Hl ley Kotchel plunked him on the Jaw. B I Today Jack can give the best middle- weights a snorting struggle and tho H heavies have to Jump some, too. when ' H , thp shiny patcd Irishman gets hia , H J hands up. Hj Mlko (Twin) never gained tho note Hf his brother attained, but he was al- ways far from a mediocre performer. Hj Montana Jack and Dan arc tho other ' H Sullivan brothers before the public at H JEM DP.ISCOLL, WHO HAS RE- H TIRED FROM THE RING. Hl Jem Drlscoll, tile featherweight H champion of England, has retired from H tho ring and will now become a han- H dler of pugilists. Drlscoll 1b one of H tho cleverest boxers that ever stoppod H Into tho ring. Fight followers on this Hj cido of tho Atlantic will never forget M his showing with Abo Atlell in New 1 York several years ago. In which he 1 outpointed tho champion. While In H this country Drlscoll contracted a H heavy cold, and at ono time it was M feared that ho was suffering with tu- H - berculosi3 Ho stated recently that H the climate In America did not agree H with him M present They aro mlddlewcights, and H each has a chano, at tho scepter H Ketchol left after him. Jack fought a H twenty round draw with Kctchol and j has knocked out a lot of good oppo- H ncnts. In the west tho pair made great M names for themselves, but their cast- H ern Invasion was not a howling suc- H cess. On tho showing of tho pair so 1 Jar Jack scorns to be tho hotter of the H two. Ho Is much moro mgjjed than H his brother. Splko and Dave Sullivan, Hj from County Cork. Ireland, were two M other brotherly disciples of tho fame of j Sullivan. Splko was a lightweight and H Dave a bantam. Hl Two Gardners Are Champs. Hl Tho Gardnor tribe endowed flghtdom H I with another race of men whoso pugil- Hl ' Htlc worth attracted International at- H tcntlon. There was Oscar Gardner, H who knocked Terry McGovern down for j fourteen seconds at Now York In 1809 M and was cheated out of tho feather- H weight championship thrbdgh some H faulty timekeeping There was also H Eddie Gardner, who fought all tho good H f feathers and earned himself a reputa- H , tlon. Eddie boxed until he couldn't H i get any more money and quit. H ' Another Gardner family trave George, H H ' ML Jimmy and Billy Gardnor to the professional pro-fessional ring. Gcorgo beat Joo Wal-cott. Wal-cott. Jack Root, Kid Carter, Marvin Hart, Al TVelnlg and other men of his weight and time and finally won the light hcavywolght championship Jimmy Jim-my Gardner was onco welterweight champion. Ho is still in the game Attels Good Boxero. The Attol brothers rank next as title holders. Abe is now featherweight champ, and Monto v. as probably as much a bantam king as any one olse Caesar Attell was tho third fighter in tho family, but after a short filng at It ho developed an abnormal propensity for business and gave up tho game Jim Jeffries was tho only real scrapper scrap-per of the Jeffries progeny Jack at one timo showed signs of developing into a good one, but he soon petered out and left Jim to shoulder all the glory punchology saw fit to deal to this race of people Terry McGovern. "the terrible" and tho greatest fighting featherweight and lightweight that ever lived, was the most illustrious Individual of his Hno-age. Hno-age. Terry onco claimed to bo tho possessor of threo separate championships, champion-ships, Hughey at ono time gavo prom-iso prom-iso of developing a good featherwolght, but went all to pieces later. Philly McGovern is a good bantamweight, but ho cannot be mentioned in tho samo breath with his brother. Aro Two Whito Brothers. Charlio and Jack Whlto of Chicago are brothers. Charlie Is tho moro scientific sci-entific but Jack Is tho fighter. Jack Is Known better. Both aro featherweights, feather-weights, but Jack is growing out of the division, Thero Is also another brother broth-er of Jack and Charlio who fights under un-der the name of Billy "Wagner. Andy and Gene Bercnah of Cincinnati Cincin-nati wore lightweights who a fow j cars ago wore rated as good boys Gene suffered tho mlsfortuno of being killed in battle Gua Bezenah, another brother, is a pretty fair bantam Tommy and Johnnj McCarthy were begotten of. tho same. .mother. Johnny is the only ono boxing now. Tommy was killed by Owon Moron on tho coast last summer. Ho was a lightweight. So is Johnny. Thero wcro two Forbes in the fistic profession Harry Forbes was onco champion and a good one Clarence Forbes whipped many of the lightweights. light-weights. Aurello Herrera, tho "awful Mexican." Mexi-can." who gave Gans and Nelson stiff battles, has a brother named Morris, but he never amounted to much Pal Mooro of Philadelphia has two brothers who arc fighting lr) the lighter dh Islons around Quakertown. They are Red and Jack Moore. |