The Lake County star., 1876-06-29
lBrooklyn Sun.]

| Brooklyn is not only the residence Ol
great preachers, but of great prize
fighters. On the corner of the Old Glove
Road and Douglass street is an unpreten-
tious two-story frame house. Although
small, the house has neat appearance,
as has also the small garden that sur.
rounds it, showing that the inmates Of
the cottage are very: tasty. This house
belongs to and is occupied by John
Mulcare. He is hard-working man,
and is we'll off for one of his class. His
days he spends in driving jack. plane,
or mailing together boards or joists.
Mulcare is carpenter. In size he is
about the average. To look at him a
person would say that he was man'0
much strength. =. He is strong but very
awkward.
John wants to be considered a fighter,
and right here it may be said that his
(JOhn's) eyes age generally in mourning
and his face Wears a swollen appearance.
In his house John has fitted up a
gymnasium-dumb,bells, Indian clubs
and fencing feils being stored around the
sides of the room. Mulcare's favorite
pastime, however, is boxing. Nightly
he has some heighbor 60 to his house and
don the gloves with him. But, somehow,
although he practices necessarily, John
does. not make a good boxer. His friends
rather court invitations 70 "come up to
the house and put on the gloves for
they are sure to have d good time bella
boring their host. !, ,,sH
At sparring exhibitions John shines.
He knows every prize fighter, from James
Mace down TO the HOboken Chicken. He
has spent a great deal of money in taking
lessons from professional boxers, but
their teaching does not seem to improve
him. In Johns case practice don't make
perfect. At the small exhibitions given
by the doughty "champion" of the
ring, John very often puts ON the gloves
with some of. the old lads, and his awk-
ward movements, as he. tries to get in
blow on his oppohent's face, il. a
source of much amusement to the
lookerson. .. %. =
Not long ago John had neighbor
whose hens troubled him by destroying
his fower-beds. Mulcare sent the owner
of the fowl challenge, and offered to
fight him according to the rules of the
English Prize Fight for ten dollars.
The neighbor exhibited the challenge
to some of his friends, and they advised
him to accept it. He did, and the money
was staked.
This was three years ago, and at that
time Crow Hill was covered with bushes,
and not cut up by streets as it now is.
The place selected for the fight was
Crow Hill, and the time Sunday
afternoon.
Both men were attended by hosts of
friends, and when they stepped into the
impromptu ring, formed by the specta-
tors, both men were loudly :applauded.
The most sanguine of Johns friends
hardly expected that he would win the
fight. He did, however, but not until
both his eyes were blackened and his nose
broken. At first the other fellow had it
all his own way; but he weakened when
he saw with what fortitude John with.
stood blow after blow that was fained
upon his Uranium.
When the fight was concluded John,
who was declared victor, was almost too
weak, from loss Of blood to walk. His
friends, elated at his victory, carried him
home, and it was two weeks before he
recovered from the injuries he had
received.
For awhile John was always in hot
water. Fight followed fight with rapid
succession, and in every case awkward
John Mulcare was second best man.
Now, every person is acquainted with
his strange fancies, and it is impossible
fer John to get any person to combat
with him. Thinking that every person
in the vicinity fears to meet him, he now
calls himself the champion fighter of
East Brooklyn.
Even to the boys in the street he is
known as John Mulcare, the prize.fghter,
who fought one hundred battles and only
won one,