Show I I Where Are the Old Time Champs g g Few F-ew Veterans Retire With Wealth I w 4 Ud L r rI I I ir 4 f f t v T S1 I j 4 i- i iroM roM 4 A I i L v- v 4 lil 4 a V L tl I Bf Dr DAN n S LOS ANGELES CELES Feb What 21 21 happens to pugilistic champions after they have been robbed or of their crowns A few ot of them stay slay In the game and attempt though usually un- un un unsuccessfully su successfully to stage a come back come back Others Other ault juit the ring rin ami an las as tar far as the fight crowd Is I con con- concerned concerned ar aTe aro swallowed up by the tho earth Los Las Angeles has become became a mecca tar for the has been be ns who at one onetime onetime onetime time ruled pugilism as Jack Demp- Demp Dempsey DempSe sey Demp-sey sey Se or ar FIdel Fidei La Barba rule It to- to toda today to today da day Though seldom heard of many of oC the timers old are living he here e and are engaged In sam sort sart ot of business Take for tor ar example Jim Jeffries What g C fight fan an Is 18 is there who remember that swelterIng Fourth ot of July 1910 1 10 when Jack Johnson Jahnson knaCk knoCked cd aut out at nena Yet how haw many kno know about Jefries today taday Jims Jim's Jim living just outside of ef Lo Los Angeles runnIng a farm He makes almost almast as much mont money na now raising cows caws and chick chick- ens as he got far knocking the boys bays I goofy when he was champ IS HAPPY H And Mr James Jeffries Is I A much happier man than Jim J fishier fighter I X am api content here declares declare the ex cx t king I am I am busy buY all day on an the farm Carm and then I have nava the evenIngs evening with my wife I like to play with the kids too taa No they're nat not mind they belong belang to a the road but they spend most mast of af their time here Then theres there's AJ Wolgast one onetime onetime onetime time lightweight champion champlan who gaIned everlasting fame In his fight with Battling Nelson Nelsan Poor paar old aid Ad Adhe he still thinks ho he has a chance to become champi champion n again was one of the tho th toughest boys bays wn ever climbed through the ropes rapes rope Ad I is working In a billiard parlor next door doar to Jack Doyl Doyles Doyle's s 's Vernon Vernan arena a now now a mere nobody und under r the tame same root roat where thousands hailed him as champion champian In n nis spare pare time he ho can be seen lIeen een work work- workIng working work work-Ine Ing out over In Doyles Doyle's ring Ill be coming back pretty soon oon now I I he ho told lold me Just the other day I 3 worked out like Uke a young oung man RYAN X HATED E Billy former middleweight king kinf I Is trying to outdo Jeffries IS asa a farmer Carmer has 1118 a ranch a afew afew afew few miles out aut of at o the th city not Sr ar from fram homestead The Th two tva are arc great creat friends friend They spend many manyan manyan an an evening together swapping theories on en the th best methods ot of ing trull II making butter and oiher chores chares Of ol the great ir at open space But the be best t evenings of at atall all are the tho ones anes spent In going over aver the old ring day Out In Culver City Is Tommy Ryan Itan who tram from the rIng undefeated welterweight and middleweight champion champlan Tommy had tome some money maney when he- he he quIt righting fighting and he In Invested ested It wisely Now Naw hes he's he living oft off the Income and hasn't anything to worry about Ryan nan spends most mast of oC his time puttering about the house bause and yard lie He ha has hag a II few tew turkeys and sonic same fruit trees in the back yard ard and they tako take up a great treat deal dea of ot ale tIme |