The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-18
HOME TIES O. THE boxers
TOM SHARKEY PREPARING AN
ELEGANT HOME FOR HIS AGED
FATHER AND MOTHER
PUGILIsT WORTH A FORTUNE
Tom Aliens Patient, Faithful and
Devoted DauEhter-PrOf. CIarI1's
Venerable MOther-Demp-
sey's Loyal Wife.

sey's Loyal Wife.
The public sees only the fierce side OF
the nature of the boxer or pugilist, hut
there is another side that is human. and
ii is pleasing to be able to say that it ap-
plies to many of the famous ring glad
iators who have been noted for their fe-
Iocity. Tom Hyer was ashamed to go
home after a battle in which he received
black eye, for the reason that it might
distress his relatives. Nat Langham low
ed a lass who was opposed to his call
jng, and after his successful fight with
Tom Sayer he agreed to never again en-
ter a ring. Had Andy Bowen followed
the impulse once expressed to the writer.
in his New Orleans home, he might not
have lost his life at the hands of George
LaVigne. Mrs. Bowen was a sweet-facel
little woman, who dreaded the hours dur
ing which her husband was engaged in
battle. She had foreboding that he
would be killed, as he finally was Bowen
worshiped her, and his home was bright
cosy and happy. He had promised his
wife and himself that so soon as he had
gained sufficient worldly goods to embark
I'm some other business he would fight no
more. But that day never came. Death
In The ring interviewed
SHARKEY'S FILIAL AFFECTION.
Tom Sharkey. the sturdy man-of-wnr S
man. who has fought many a desperate
battle in the ring. has amassed a fortune
and is today said to be worth near S10G,-
QgO. He has just purchased big estate
at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. and has per-
manently located there. OF his intcn-
tions Sharkey says:
My motive in buying this property was
to provide my dear parents a home Of tn.
first order. I mean to stop at nothing in
the way of expense. but will go right
ahead and furnish every room with the
best Of everything required, regard IS of
cost. I am determined to fulfill my in
tention Of showing gratitude and love for
my dear father and mother"
Sharkey is a money-saver as well as
maker. His habits are of the best. Ke
Is not what the boxing world would des-
ignate a good fellow" That was the
title worn by John L. Sullivan, and 1t
mean1 to him the expenditure of mora
money than any other man in the ring
has been able to earn. And yet Sharkoy
is really good fellow, as is shown in his
solicitude for the happiness and COM
fort of his aged parents.
THAT GIRL OF ALIENS.
In the tumble-down, ramshackle build.
ing in the 'TenderIoin" Of st. Louis. on
Market street in which Tom Allen, ere
tired champion" nightly directs a con-
cert Tor the entertainment of his patrons,
resides a woman who is known to but
rev Of the people Of that CITY. She Is the
daughter of the once probably hest
known heavyweight prize fighter in the
Worl1' She is the jewel of the home of
the retired warrior Of the ring. and she
mas devoted her life to her father There is
an unWlltten romance which coupled her
name with that Of the late Col Fred
watkins, the life long friend and hacker
oil the ring gladiator, in which it is re-
lated that for her fathers sake she de-
clded TO remain in charge of her home
II IS also said that In all the years that
Tom Allen has conducted a concert hall
In st. Louis Miss Allen has never crossed
It's Threshold She shines above, in The
portion OF the building in which tho
Aliens reside, but knows no more than
does one who has never been In the
place Of what the concert hall looks like
Allen is rough and surly as a rule. with
all he meets but is as kind and gentle
with the daughter as though she were
yet a wlnsome maid in short skirts
PROF. CLARFTS OLD MOTHER
Three years since Mrs. Clark. mother
Of the veteran boxer NOW conducting tie
Natatorium, in st, Louis, died of old ace.
Ihe professor is now approaching the
eighty-year mark, so 1t will be seen that
Mrs. Clark lived to quite an old age
Willie had been her support from his
boyhood. After the father died, Willie"
now professor, entered the boxing
booths at English fairs, and met all com,
erS Tor mere pittance, which went to
sustain mother and the eight little
brothers and sisters at home Many a
hard knock willie" has received at the
hands of the horny-fisted miners and
other ambitious athletes of all weights.
In order that the weekly stipend might
be turned over to mother for the rent of
the humble cottage and the grocer anu
butcher. When Prof. Clark came 10
America the mother came with MIN, ana
his tender solcitude for her comfort
compensated for all the reputation lie
had earned in the ring as a ferocious
fighter Even to this day "Willie"' pays
rogular visits to the green spot in the
cemetery where his mother rests. and
speaks of her as reverently as son ever
spoke of the woman who gave him life
DEMPSEY's LOYAL WIFE.
When Jack Dempsey welded it was
with a promise to his sweetheart that he
would fight no more. Had he kept that
promise he might have been alive today
But the temptation was too great In
the day when the gallant 'Nonpareirp
earned his title of middle-weight cham
pion Of the world, fortunes were not com
ing TO prizcfighters in a night Twelve