The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-03
ALL FRAUDS.
An Old Pugillist Gives Away the
Secrets of knocking Out.

''He's another bloOmin' cove lookin'
for American dollars" said an old
pugilist wien a reporter asked him
if Mithell. the newly arrived champ
ion of England, intended to meet
Sullivan 10 the ring. "None of these
yer chaps as has come out lately is
lookin' for fight" he continued. "when
they wont fight when they haster.
They run away and wait for their man
and down him with a pop-a pistol
is what / mean-a lot Of blokes vino
has as much fight in 'em as the fell
Ter as was downed. They club togeth-
er and get him a rosewood box, and
q hearse with four white HOSES. and
wear mourning badges. and have a
bloomin' big wake and bury him
with honor. Why, it makes me tir-
ed to think on it. This thing is what
is called by the tony chaps a new hero
in pugilism we'll l guess so too, but it
amt no good. All these knocking
out rackeis is folkes. Will l have
su'thiu' ? Well, / will. but this yer
rum has brought many
A GOOD MAN
to bis end, but, as | was saying it
won't Spite any more, for the days of
good ring fighters are gone. Oh, you
want to know something abont these
knOckin-out matches, eh ? Well, I'll
tell you, but it's hardly fair. though
guess it's time the public quit givin'
up dollar to see couple of feiIers
putin up their dukes no more than
twelve minutes. This thing was start
ed last year when Tug Wilson came
over here to have go with Sullivan.
Well, that was on the night of July
IL. | think, an awful hot 'un, too, and
the Garden was packed. The papers
said as how there was more'n IL 600
people in the place and some Cf 'em
had paid as much as 50 to get inside
and swelter while Sullivan and Tug
hammered each other. Now, the
fact is Tug was knocked out, for Inc
laid on the floor once for nearly half
a minute before the fight was given
him in the end. But he was there
at the end of FOUR rounds and the pair
divided some $40, 200. Well yer see
that is big sum for a fighter. and
Billy Madden is a smart man, and it
was him as did all the fine work of
gittint the crowd there. Oh, he's
smart, is Billy. Well. yer see when
Sullivan seen that he los. the fight he
got mad at Billy Madden because
Billy had paid more attention to the
sale of tickets than to him, and then
there was kick, and the big duffer
split from his Ia anager, you know,
like the oprea folks do. Then Billy
probably told him--yer mind as how
| says 'probably'--as how he would
60 to England and get a bloke as
would
KNOCK HIM OUT,
and then parted as strangers-do you
see? Well. while Madden was in
England another man got it into his
nut as how there was big money I'm the
bizness, and he imported Tom Allen,
who onct was pretty good. but who,
lately. is good for nothing. He was
heralded by the announcement that
he would meet Sullivan in the twenty
four-toot squared circle for $4,000
a side. and great many other things
as weren't all as true rs gospel. Well,
the Allen fake didn't pan out, as when
his hacker saw what puffy old man
he had grown to be he didn't want any
part Of it. Why, its n actual fact
that one night at the Garden, at his
benefit, he wound up with George
who knocked him down twice,
and then they had on gloves as big as
pillows. Well. Tom went west. Then
the same Teller what brought out Tom
sent to the bush of Australia for half
breed Maori or whatever he is, and
before seein' him, said he would be
BACKED FOR $500
agin Sullivan. Well, Slade, who is q
big enough Teller. arrived here with
Jem Mace, and the newspapers made
. big card of them, and told all their
movements as though they were look
ing for q fight, while, a the people