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Show FAILURES AS FIGHTERS Sparrino Partners of Ring Stan Seldom Make Good. Jim Jffrl It On of Two Notabl j Jj Ecptlon to Rul Kid McCoy, Who Traveled With Tommy Ryan, It AnoUitr. I It la nil odd fart that th sparring 3 jwrtncrs of great rum turn rarely 3 mr iinnxint In much fighter. .la. k Jnlinson liacl a couple of clever men to nsslst him In Marty Cutler 1 uu I Walter Munnhiin. hut neither on of them mucin good In th ring .lin k ' , rt'rnrler mwl (iiMirge l.awlcr traveled In n l.ke capacity Willi Huh Kltlslni-inons Kltlslni-inons In the long Miith wero lln- looking chaps physically mid In a position In leurn all there to h learned from one of the Wat generals 1 mi,! most cunning boxers that ever slimm-d a glove but neither of them waa worth two renin when turned Inn In a ring to rare a real opponent. op-ponent. Peter Jackson once lilrked up a bit: Well hwiin niimeil Ht. John in P.ngland, lm I Riant In ilia, ami trleil lilt bant lo niolil lilin Into o-nntrh form. Hut Ht. lohn simply rouldn't bo taught; hla brain work wouldn't aland Hie drain (lamcnesa and airennth hn hud In plenty, but It wan beyond hlui to grnsp Urn mean-ln mean-ln of science and generalship. II after nrda alaln In Houth Afrlra In a hand lo-hiind flaht In whlrh ha hilled live lloore with hla clubbed rill before succumbing to hla wounds. Jim Cornet! used to hare a fine, Jnmky niiildle welithl named Jim Italy, if lliiffrilo. ua a sparring partner. Italy w fulrly rlever and aspired to be harnplon of the lus-poundere. Hut Kid .MeCiiy knoi-ki'd him atlff. and hla ring c-:ireeer ended when Joe lltlllcr, lln- formidable rhlladelphla Irlal lioise, sent him In the rleam-ra Willi n wallop which runie close to tcrml-fini'mt tcrml-fini'mt Duty's earthly rourae. Then tlirre wus Yank Kenny, who waa big !.piikIi lo In ai two ordinary men, and ii'.ed Jim Jeffries na a punching bo ith'u .1 'IT wan on tour, In hit palmy I days Kenny waa an awful front at it r alilcr. however, and ant whipped ' liy every man of class he turkled. I When John I.. Hiilllvan waa chain lilon hn tet out on a world tour with Jack Aahtnn na hla male. Itoilrhlntt Australia, Hiilllvan waa rhallenKed by . j tha Harrier rhampton, Joe (loddard, I, hiu John treated (loddard with con- I tempt and offered to match Aahton I aicalnat blm, Tha fight cam off and . 4 loddard knocked Aabton out la Jl( . fc'VA Jtf Jim Jtffrlt. 'time. John L. dldnt Hay to exact vengeanc for the downfall of hi partner, but want ttraliht horn. When Sullivan waa In bit prim h put tha quletut on Herbert Hlad. tha Maori, a pupil of old Jem Mar, who waa touted by til veteran bar ksuckl cliamplon at a ture comer In tha rlnf. Tber were two notabl iceptlont to tha rule that purlin partner acl-tlom acl-tlom mak chaminona. One wat oona other than Jeffrlea. who abtorbed tht , ." . finer polnlt uf the (am while eugag- ' : el ii aparrlna; partner with Jim Cor- . 4 tiett when the latter waa training for . - ' rl 111 memorabto battle wltb Kltxslin- ,1 mona at Caraou City. The other wat , Kid McCoy, who traveled for a whll ' "' ,'i with Tommy Kyan, found out all the ' ' l latter' weak tKita and Hiked him to , f a fraxxle afterwarda In llfteea round . ' ; ) ' at Matieth, U I. , ' ' |
