| Show JA JACK K M WAS AS IDEAL CHAMP IN TilE THE OPINION OF JA JACK K SKELLY Y Special to The 11 illa- illa were ere New York Dec Del The The oilier c boxing hotel botel Ics New York the merit ot oC the time past t and present prent tU cussing in Ia u n a Ta Skelly I ND night followed the tins ring hail hn They ere s-ere n a ve group ill from rum PO hO O or more After ft r going over O the th tile the t year for ji whom 1 II 1 the days of or Dill Billy to the present champion they naked lied me time before my th the o of them nil all O Of course Edt urd WIM nn n. n but hut looking back bRei for the t years I nee ee nn Il champion who nho ho wn un equal to m my old friend taking everything er consideration into u L u u You know McAuliffe Dempsey ana m myself worked to together ether as coopers and belong to the tho same school of fighters We Vt Ve not nol only worked to together but played and boxed together loether as young ounh fellows and knew one another like brothers l lIko gallant Jack Dempcy Demp- Demp l from natural sc c cy 1 was always a n fighter his boyhood days das up Even as an amateur amateur amateur ama ama- h ho he showed great reat skill and superior scIence s-clence In all au his hiM battles The art of ot boxing seem seemed cd to come to him as easy as It did to fhe They were both past liast masters at the tho game Ramo and will m alwa always s 's be remembered as two of ot the In the history grandest ring generals of ot After Arter discussing the fine Cine points of oC all the lightweight ht champions the veteran veteran vet vet- eran cran fans Cans all agreed with me mo that l was the peer of ot them all Of or course most of the fans tans of the present pre ent da day never ne had tho the opportunity of oC seeing at his best and consequently are arc unable to pass judgment judgment judg judg- ment on his fighting ability remember that It was Sullivan Sullivan Sulli Sulli- van an McAuliffe and my humble self sel who contested In the greatest carnival carni carni- vat val on record at New Nov Orleans In 1892 the three American JacK battle was with BIll Billy Myer Mer on that oc occasion oc- oc casion and It was a remarkable victory vic nc- tory for tOT Jack considering his condition condition condition condi condi- tion an and lack of or training Why WIt the nl night ht before tho the fight Mc Mc- rc- rc Auliffe was at least ten pounds overweight over overweight weight ani and ho he didn't seem to be a bit bothered over o it Such a condition on the eve of ot an important championship battle with over at stake would naturally get a man rattled but not Ho lIe sat with his old backer bacler Dick Roche in the beaming moonlight warbling an Irish ditty with a a. cold pint of ot wine hid under his chair Then suddenly Roche be began an to realize Jacl Jacks Jack's s 's real condition and de demanded demanded demanded de- de he should jump on the scales When he ho found so 50 man many pounds overweight he lie became alarmed and w wanted to rush up to the Olympic club at Xe New Orleans and forfeit all the guarantee mone money he had posted But Jack as cool as his hidden small bottle declared he lie would be at weight the next da day and made good Jack was out bright and early the next morning on the road and ran off ocr his extra tipped the scales scalO's about a quarter of ot a pound under the limit and appeared In the thc rin ring that evening In fair tall condition considering his careless training Myer IYer was as trained to perfection for tor I that battle He had fou fought ht McAuliffe in a lour ur w. w 11 North Judson Ind md and felt Celt confident of ot victory Ictor But Jack soon oon showed b by his ma masterly generalship that he ho was still the champion He lie outfought outfought outfought out out- fought the husky western lightweight ht almost from the start and floored hint him twice before beCore the end of or the tho third round Once Myer lyer cau caught ht Jack Jacl a terrible right hand smash on the ribs that broke the tho skin and brou brought ht the blood but hut that wa was l really the only e effective e punch Billy dell delivered during during- the whole mill Myer her undertook to tire I out b by running around thin tho ring and other awkward tactics Then Than Jack TacIt with the shrewdness of ot a general that feels teel that he has the tho game Jame In his han hands s forced the pace and landed some corkIng corkIng cork- cork Ing irig lefts lens that did much dama damage e. e And Ando so o the hard battle battlo went vent on until tho the fifteenth round when had Myor ber at hi his mercy lIe He could make no defense and when hen Jack gave e a hIm him his left and right poor Myer Myar went down and stayed stae for tor six seconds Ho He arose very en gro groggy gro SJ and sailed Into him a again aln and the Streator cyclone went down n and out for Cor the last time This ended one of or the greatest r ate t glove lo e battles In the history of ot the thu ring hear a lot of or fellows who ho dont don't really know the circumstances say that Jem Carney Carne tho the En English champion champion cham chani- pion had It lt on In their great four round draw at Revere Beach Mass lal I. I Of Ot cour course e Jack was Avas a avery avery er very sick Ick bo boy at that time and should not have o entered the ring but he was too game to forfeit and ho lie only fought to save sae his backers backer's coinA coinA coinA coin A number of ot prominent American sporting men made every ery offer possible to Carney Carne to meet o a again aln either here or In En England land but the couldn't be Induced under an any conditions to face fac Jack again ag Mc Mc- had rou fought ht seventy four skin glove lo e rounds when ho was a very Yen sick fellow tellow and what would ho have done if IC he was wa good and well Carney Carne knew this better than anyone anone else and re ye- ye tired was not only onh a great reat bare bare- knuckle or skin kin Io e fighter I but he had al also o the kick with the bl big mitts lIe He loved td to meet those aJ aggressive ref he bine bing bang tl fighters of oC the Terr Terry McGovern ern type Like Dempsey he lie was an artist at these theo rushers with a astral straight ht left lert Take him all In all I consider r McAuliffe the grandest ran esl lightweight lightweight light lIght- weight champion Ive I've ever seen in the roped arena Its It's a pit pity hes he's not nol In his prime toda today to show sho some of oC the supposed great CI fighters a trick or two In clever generalship ener l |
