OCR Text |
Show I BILLY JORDAN TO 1 RETIRE FROM RING San Francisco, Cal., Nov 22. "Billy" "Bil-ly" Jordan is to retire as official an Yj nonncer of tho prize ring He is 82 years old and after tho first of the coming year he will go to the Old Soldiers homo at Yountsville. Cal. Fight followers all over the coun try know ' Billy ' Jordan He announced an-nounced the Jeffries Johnson fight and almost every other championship event that has been had west of tlv. Rocky mountains in the last two I generations 91 Once a good lightweight. hlmsesf. Jordan is one of the few men now living liv-ing who saw the famous battle at Fredericksburg. Va, in 188. when Tom Hyer defeated "Yankee' Sulif van in one hour and forty minutes un dcr the old London prize ring rules. Born In Boston. Jordan came to California In L8B3. went west to fight for tho union in the sixties, returned and has lived here ever since. |