| Show I Quits as Gate Gale Crasher Crash en enI ente I I te j I lcD f II j seen iriv dL b the I champ champt t BY W if 21 NEW YORK July one 17 One 17 17 One Eye Eye Eyo Connelly the rough ready little Emperor of In Crash i whose Illy lIly white bands the feel o of ofa ofa I I a purchased od ed ticket have o n ver know I has quit his throne thone The best since 1897 IS 97 tho the man who has hIlS crashed gate gato after r gate gato at Cry elery great sporting affair in inthe inthe Inthe the world since Bince beat down Jim Corbett on OR the hot hotsa sands of o Carson City Nevada has got ot a II Job The aga of ot commerce has al a swallowed lowed him hini up Ho lie has lIas forsaken art for lor pelt The only window hc's hc crashing these days days- Is the tho staId window pay-window of ot a publishIng company He Ho has hung huns up hIs fiddle for tor or another to shoot at at JUST AlTER'S A WAITERS WAITER'S JOB tired of around I 1 got waiting was one ono o the ithe reasons the fa- fa Camous fa famous inous pure simon gave o for his hla ab- ab abdication ab abdication Crashing gates theBo days Is a waltor walters waiters jobs jol Job The boxing game has haa become too much lIke the stock exchange Any as want wants cants my Job can haveIt It it It Its It's 23 20 yearS since I 1 first fooled the tho bulls bulla Ive I've kept the old slate clean My crowns crown's on the tho gate ate It if anybody else elso wants to grab It off oCt They Thy u used ed to tight fight for a ton tonof tonof tonof of coal a II sack o ot of flour a ham sandwich or pr nothing at all Now ow they want the Woolworth building deeded over oer to them be- be before be before fore foro they start training and half of Wall Wali str street et before they step Into the tho ring Instead of ot upper upper- uppercuts upperCuts upper cuts cuts and right crosses croMes Its It's bIds and offers Ono Joyos nalle name nane ha has hai become an allegory That one ono eye eyo of ot hIs has hils se seen n great things When long Bob Dob FItzsimmons hammered John JohnI JohnL JohnL I L Sullivans Sullivan's conqueror mb Into sub sub- submIssion submissIon sub submission mission In 1897 at lit Carson City that one eye eSe was there thero at the ringsIde never nover ml missing a move Two years yeats later tho a ayoun ayoung youn young giant from the tho west vest Jim trail rios trail Fit Fitzs bann banner in the tho dust dut at CopeS Copey Island bland The Tho cops said then they would kc keep p me mo out said saM One They never did keep me out They've been sayIng it ever sInce But Dut not In this century did they ever er beat me inc Im I'm winner p SAW P ANIt ANI bIt 1051 The Tho cops couldn't Icet keep him out when Jeff Sef mauled Tom Sharkey or In 1902 when FItz made mado his last gallant effort to regain the title and went down dOYn do n Int Into unconsciousness unconsciousness before Jeffs Jeff's sturdy at- at attack at attack uc tack That one eye eo saw the black man swing his stevedores stevedore's mitts mitIs into Inlo Tomm Tommy Burns Durns face faco at Sydney Australia until Tommy could take takeno takeno takeno no more Then Johnson and the noble young Stanley and then the pitiful tragedy at Reno Rene Nevada 16 years ara ago this Fourth of nf July Suly when the tho black n taught Jim that youth is InvincIble These were tough ones all for O One Eye Eyo to But Dut somehow mysteriously there thOre he would always turn up at the ring ring- ringside ringside side aide unpaid That uncouth cap over his left car ear there he would b be II a a defiance of o of all that was IlS staid and regular res In the tho world the Iho man mall who always beat heat his way tho lie nimble the tho dodger doger dOlg r the tho woo woe ot or and of ot g guards ards such auch a good food boy too said ld One One Eye Eye of o the pres pres- prea- prea present ent nt champion Its Its It's n shame they had to 10 spoil him him with that pleat In his 1119 nose noso It If he lie only would fight liE nn r KEi A WIllI One Eye was as as asked It if ho would see Dempsey In his next fight Well Well ell ho he said and scratched his hand reflectively That he rant cant say say-no What wa was lour our harde hardest t gate gato he was WIlS asked The Tho world series at last year he answered with Ith no hesitation They threw mil mc out 13 times But Dut I nn finally II made It But Dut I 1111 had to put on a 0 Western UnIon Co CAP and ond faken telegram telegram to to Barney Dreyfuss before I- I Imade I made madeth th the grade The Tho cops down there thero had made mado up their their- mind minds they ther would woul 1 keep me out and they SUl l dId try Of Or his present ende vors vor all 11 Eye allOne One Eye would say was Im promotion man r for r turf magazines now Its It's a ilce lite steady ally lob job For a Q guy with one ono eye ee lve Ivo seen enough Put Hut when Dempsey rubs his lil 11 feet reet Into against his next nOlt Ono Eyo roc foe what hat hatI I will happen happen T isi Ono One Eyo actually walk alk ahk up to the window and buy a ticket T Will VIII he now |
