The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-13
oNE-EYED CONNOLLY.
Most Famous Dead Beat in the
United States.

United States.
With the shutting down of prize
fighting all over the country comes the
discontinue. of at least one man. One
Eyed Connolly has been taken to an
institution where they minister to the
mind diseased. Probably there is no
parsonage better known in the world
of pugiltSm than this same "One-Eyed'
Connolly. He is the champion dead
head of the world, say the managers
and promoters Of glove fights, and ne is
proud of his title. Connolly has seen
every fight OF Importance in America,
England and Australia during the last
twenty years, and has never paid
cent TO get inside the gates. He has
beaten his way all over the world,
picking up dollars or pennies here and
there wherever there was a graft"
His knowledge of pugilism, his ready
wit, and his cast-iron nerve are the
principal reasons for his success. 1t
has gotten to be a byword among the
fighting men that no big event is COM
pIete without the presence OF Mr.. Con-
molly in the best seat in the house"
According to the New York Sun, Con-
molly is an English cOckney, and his
accent is peach. He eXaggerates it
on almost every occasion when he is
presented to strangers, though he can
also talk with the brogue of an Irish
man from Cork. He was a pugiliSt
himself years ago, and says he lost an
eye in a contest that lasted seventy
five rounds. Whether this is the truth
or not is immaterial but the fact re-
mains that Connolly has but one real
eye, and in the left socket he wears a
glass optic that has helped to make
him notorious. It was when Squire
Abingdon was here a number of years
ago that Connolly first came into pub
lie view. The squire, it will be remem-
hprRH here with Charley
Mitchell TO help second Jim Hall in
his fight at New Orleans with Bob
| Fitzsimmons. The squire had money to
| burn, and was the prince of good fell
lows in the estimation of the sports.
Mitchell and Abingdon were drinking
together in the Hoffman House one
night shortly after their arrival, when
a queer-lOoking fellow approached
them. He wore loud. loosely fitting
clothes, flat-topped, light derby, a
red and white striped shirt, and his
face was a, deep crimson hue
us this the squire? Abingdon? En- %
| q6eried the queer one.
The same!" calculated Mitchell
''wot yer want eh?"
Bar boy!" cried the queer one to
| the Immaculate drink mixer, "a cold
| basket of old Ir. Mumms best wine
for the squirrel"
| MY good man, the squire put IN
| what name?"
| Connolly James Connolly" was the
| reply. Sometimes known as One
Eyed because-see!" And the queer
one unlocked his left eyebaH and
rolled it around in the palm OF his hand
Then followed a stream of language
! that made the squire md Mitchell roar
with laughter. Connolly called up some
friends, and the wine was soon gone.
Bar boy yelled One Eyed, - ''keeI
the squire's bloomink goblet filed &c
/ the bloody brimi" And the Immaculate
barkeeper was buster than ever before
in his life.
Bring the best cigars in the bloom
ink house, We know" was Connolly's
next order, and there was aVhower Of
perfectos. When the party had con
! sumed all the wine that was really
| good for them, One Eyed" gathered
up pile of checks that had been &C
4 cumulating in front of him, and, lift
| ing his hat. he said:
| Squire and gentlemen, 1 have {
| bloomink engagement cid an heiress
and | must hurry away Ia, tai"
"A sport" said the esquire, and (
| great spender, A jolly good fellow
Connolly had no sooner disappeared
| around a screen than a bellbOy ap
preached the suuire's. table. He handel
a sealed envelope to- Abingdon, which
was addressed as follows