Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-28
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Prize Fighters Who Because OF
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~ sss.v sald WeiI-ka0sn Minneapolis
thumger yssssI Day evening = r0-
porter f9r tue Tfttaae. that the yoaag
Soalan @ho eas Knocked 02s by the d1rz
gigi dressed ia blue Al ths Aarkt Hall
the other nixht has taken q drink IA eon-
sequence II her defeat. Il may look 20
people Who are Mt ia this sort u business
that such people are fools. bat ! teal yea
have seen many a zig Ioan 20 - pieces IN
der the disappointment OF defeat. Let me
tell yOu about few Of them.
do you remember the once celebrated
Mike McC0oles / knew Nike when be had
more friends than any man ia ST. Louis
lie kept place on Fifth street, which
Was niehtly nllel with admirers, and Il
used - be considered an honor 10 shake
hands y ith him. / remember him when
10 Was ia the height OF bis glory, and
there were leading people who didn't hesi'
tate 70 visit his place ani solicit his ac.
quaintance. lie was a great big, ignorant
steamboat roustab0gt, but II night on
Bloody Island he knocked his opponents
phIz out OF shaps, aad this gave him
reputation such "a John l. sullivan en-
Joys to-day. Bat Tom Allen, an English
bruis r. came along. aud Tom was never
satisfied until he had a meeting with Nike.
McCO0ls married ths . htrr 0f well.
tO-io lrisl parents, and al tho d.
dinS there were liz sly times. The
presents were handsome and the
costumes elegant. Nike wore u
swallow tailed coa, aad white kid gloves,
and Mollie, his wife, was rugged out IN
orange blossoms and traps that must have
cost her daddy good deal of money. lie
owned a splendid tar, was doing "a good
business, and.was supposed 10 be worth
about 5000 Wen, air, about eighteen
months after the wedding Mike was
whipped by Tom Allen. and ct'oole be-
gan to 90 down hill. In less than two
years he vas running low dive in one of
the worst districts OF the city. In few
months more he had TO give up his little
gin shop. and when next heard from he
was hustling with cotton bales on the New
Orleans levee.
''Well there's Tom Allen. He wasn't
exactly knocked out by COburn, but he
was disappointed in the fight and had TO
run away TO B.rmin cham, England, in or
der 10 escape going TO the Penitentiary,
y
Allen made stacks Of money in his palmy
days, but lost them as rapidly, and he is
now running a rather dizzy concern on
Market street, St. Louis, just barely max
ing living.
"COburn is even worse off. He had TO
serve a term in the Pennsylvania State
Prison on account OF his isht with Allen,
and when be cam out ne foInl that most
OF bis ri nds hal deserted MN and that
II "a n.ea hal tAkel his place IN sporting
circles. Hs - nJw rowing Wa L in ma T,
and IN a. ew years VII drop into drunk
ards grave unl. ss h reforms.
''Then there was Jack LOoney. Jack at
one time was the man who backed up the
crack prize fighters OF the country. He
Vaf ~ SHOW, ana aShsst @as sttlt hDhmGee hGeet vim II "a
head on him as iig as a VIII eelbarrow. He
never 20. over this hu iiiltiol. to. to
drink, and died last summer worth moth =
ing.
"JOhn Kelly, since the day that a coun-
try striker sent him flying through a glass
mirror; Arthur Chambers. since he was
Knocked head over heels by modest little
Britonian; Billy Edwards, since he was
whipped by n New Y ork dry goods clerk
in beer saloon all right-E-ve all gone to
the bad Don't blame the young woman
here in Minneapolis, who has allowed her
defeat TO unsettle her. There are few prize
fighters. wrestlers or pedestrians who have
been able to look upon defeat philosoph-
ically, aud if you will look at the career of
Mclaughlin Rowell, o Leary, or any OF
them, you VIII find that a little incident
such as that which occur ed at Market
Hall the other ev..nins hes upset -.spv of
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