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Show BILLY MAIDEN IS CALLEDBY DEATH Old-time Sportsman and Former For-mer Trainer of John L. Sullivan Sul-livan Dies After Operation. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.. Feb. 21. Billy Madden, for almost half a century cen-tury known to sporting men in this country, died here tonight In a hospital. hos-pital. Madden had gone to the hospital hos-pital to be operated on for an abdominal abdom-inal tumor, iiis condition was bo weak, however, that the doctors could not operate, .md tho end camo sooner than was expected. Madden camo here from his health farm at Cairo, N. Y., several days ago, to seek physicians advice regarding his trouble. Madden was born in London sixty-five sixty-five years ago and came to New York whilo a boy. Ho was intensely interested in-terested in athletics, especially In boxing. In 1871, at Now Orleans, he won what was then known as the lightweight championship of the world. Ho fought under the old London Lon-don prize ring rules with bare knockles. Madden trained John L. Sullivan when the latter won the championship from Paddy Ryan. Later he left Sullivan Sul-livan and went to London, conducted a boxing tournament won by onarlie Mitchell and brought the latter back to this country to moet Sullivan. Hia last public appearance was as man-agor man-agor of Gus Ruhlin. For the last seven years Madden had been conducting a health farm at Cairo, but kept up his luterest In sporting events to tho last. |