St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-03

and I will never meet IN the ring in
earnest, " know
The way he smiled might have been
Significant
O'DonnelPs career has never been
published anywhere, and after little
persuasion gave it to The GLOBE III his
own words.
OoDoaneipS Record.
~ was born" he said, Gin small
town about 200 miles outside Of Sydney,
New South Wales, on the goth OF April,
1867. The name of the town Is VIII.
iamston. | lived there quite while, TIL
| was about fourteen years old, and then
went to live in Sydney, where L llVed
ill two years ago, when L shipped lof
this country. America, which I'm sure
it is good enough for me for the re-
mainder of my days. L like America
real well. and also the people. thlnk
they are the best people III the world,
at least | have 10 think that way De-
cause I'm treated so kind and we'll ev-
erywhere l go that cannot speak any
other way.
"Nell, how first took to boxing l
will tell YOU. After l left school. at
leGSJ NESu i Ndo GtU oShSo't '4'Nt '''N''J
a hard fight with the boys. Sometimes
| would win. and more times my opp0n-
ent would be too big for me and / would
yet good licking. | would always take
a good licking, though, before L
got beat. Ii L get beat L was
always willing 10 take another chance,
50 alter | finished my school days l was
bound by indentures to stereotyplng
and etctrotyping TO the firm Of Gill,
Shallards & Co. That was The
largest printing company in Australia.
l served six years apprenticeship, ana
when was serving my time always
had a set of boxing gloves iii my work
shop, and | used TO invite the other ap-
prentices or any Of tie boys 20 my room.
In the dinner hour-We used
to have one hour for dinner,
and as soon as we finished our
dinner we would get the gloves, and,
as the years went Oh, was getting Big
ger and stronger, and | got pretty
clever and | used TO belt any Of my fei-
low apprentices. Then L would have
a 20 at any one that thought they could
box and used to belt them; and III the
winter when it was cold used to get a
lot of Fellows together and start a CLUB
and [ got the boss Of the club.
Then | would have 90 at any one,
and L could always hold nay own, and L
began to think | was some good. SO
then | and pal OF mine made up our
minds to go into it proper, so we agreed
10 go and take lessons III the art.
The first lesson we took was OF OF
Peter jackson, ami it was very funny
experience. We both thought we were
all right, aud thought we would show
Jackson that we were not mugs at 1t.
SO had the first lesson. and l went at
him for all | was worth; but L did
not last lOrg. He scon showed
me that | did rot know much
about it, and he gave me a
good punching. L will never forget 1t.
But | stuck to him. L found out the
mistake OF being seif-taught boxer. L
used to take two and three lessons 4
week for six months. and l improved
wonderfully under the tutoring OF Peter
jackson. He was q wonderfully clever
Instructor ut boxing, and after was
through with Peter l was not afraid OF
any one, so then went into the bus
ness, because | saw fellows i'll my class
that could beat easy making good
money and / thought L could 90 the
same, | first started in as an amateur,
then got inio the professional ranks,
and l had many good hard hght. l
never was beaten yet, and don't IN
tend 20 be if l can help It,"