Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-30
WHEN OUT OF JOB.
Few SOME POPULAR PUGILISTS MAY EARN
A LIVING.
Sullivan as a Blacksmith and Cheese Maker-All
the Trades from Street Cleaning to Counter
fiing Represents d-Sparring News aud
Notes of all Sorts - Base Ball
Brevities - Gossip from
all Quarters.

The story Of the frugal ant, that
toiled all summer that he might be COM
Portable in the cherries winter, and OF
the butterfly, that cared not for the
morrow, but, while the sun shone, fut-
teren his gaudy wings in the delight Of
a reckless pride, with its sequel OF the
ant snug in his subterranean store
house, the butterfly famished and
frozen, tossed about with the dead
leaves by the winter winds, Is the fable
most often told by way Of warning the
shiftless.
The fighter may not be pretty, but he
is proverbially prodigal. Able TO earn
a fortune in an evening, he feels him
self competent to "blow 1t in" in less
than a season. With the noticeable ex-
ception OF James J.. Corbett, and o very
few others, the fighter plays king
among his fellows while he a pay for
the fun. The pugilist out OF a Job"
though he may be able TO whip most OF
his fellows, is as miserable as the most
hungry tramp, who, decrepit and heart
broken, begS for a meal, praying he will
not have to work for II.
Sullivan has made ten times more In
his dress suit than he has in the decol-
lette costume OF the ring. Should the
ex-chsmDion find that the public had
grown weary OF his acting there would
be still left to him many ways OF gain
ing a living. He could enter into the
munifcent rewards OF a South Boston
politician, though owing to his nomadic
life he has never had the opportunity OF
asserting mis- citizenship by his ballot.
He could command, in connection with
his political duties, the salary OF an
''editor" OF some popular weekly jour
nal. 1t would make no difference In
the value OF his literary efforts who did
the type-writing, so long as the matter
ended with his characteristic signature.
John L. has q number Of other posi-
bilitieS. While training at Belfast for
his fight with Kilrain, Mike Cleary, one
OF his seconds, taught him the useful
art Of blacksmithing. 1t was q splendid
sight to see the then champions broad
back bent over the anvil, his mighty
right swinging the hammer, while the
red sparks flew. Sullivan never for
gets what he learns, and could be a
useful citizen.
While at Belfast John l.. Spent many
hours in the cheese factory there. He
became as proficient in molding cheese
as he had been in remodellng the faces
OF his foes. Those who visited him there
remember his saying that some day he
would start a cheese factory, and man
u~facture a brand TO be known as 1.-The
John L. Sullivan cheese" He had not
then known defeat, and looked
upon possible hard labor in
the poetical light Of the fan
tasticaliy impossible. Since his down
fall he has had more money than he
ever did before, but, as he puts it, be
has. more friends" and therefore no
more money than he needs. Sullivan
to-day scorns the thought OF blacksmith
ing or cheese-msking. He says that his
best chance, in case he had to give mp
the stage, would be in branching
out as a manager. He knows the routes.