The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-03

long-horned cattle that roam the plans
Of Nebraska in this particular section
for Brewster is described as the center OF
| q farming and stock raising district, the
population of the county being placed at
| 1,146, while the twn of Brewster glorles
in the possession of a full 161 souls-is
another question. But then Brewster is
only an adjunct of Dunning apparently,
which is eighteen miles distant, and sit
uated where the map sayeth not.
Now, these facts do not materially mill
itate against the holding of a match out
On cattle ranch, and there is nothing
to prevent the 1.146 souls contributing the
slight sum of SIS each toward promoting
a go between the two heavyweight favor
ties. The police force is not likely to be
so strong as to prevent the match if the
sports get there, and the governor of the
state is not at all likely to bother his
head about roundup of Eastern sports
who are eager and willing enough to
hike" eighteen miles over the plains
from nowhere to a cattle-raising CEN
tsr.
That match between Terry McGovern
and Tim HegaIty of Australia. sched-
uled to take place in San Francisco,
April &c, is not creating any great
an cunt of enthusiasm among fight fol-
lowers throughout the country, and for
the good and sufficient reason that the
ma iority OF American SportSmen believe
that Terry Will not have much trouble
in disposing of the wonder from: the
antipodes. Like many other imported
champions Hegdrty comes to this coUn-
try heralded by a sonorous blast OF
trumpets and tales of his proWess in the
ring have sprung Up in wonderful
abundance on every side. 1t so seems
strange therefore that if McGovern's
prospective opponent is a fighting ma
chine of such great Valor that his fame
never reached these shores until some
enterprising individual saw a chance to
gather in goodly amount of shekels by
matching him with Terry fol interna-
tional honors. 1t Is of course, within
the bounds Of possibility that Hegarty
may make good, but the chances seem to
he against him. II is, 10, these many
moons. since Australia or other lands on
the other side of the globe have pro-
'luced any opponents of the art pugiistic
at any weight fit to rank with thciI
American contemporaries. Fltzsimmons
is the exception, but Bob cannot be called
recent by any sort of figuring This in
spite of the fact that in the antipodes
boxing is not interfered with by the
authorities, nor are promising men ham,
pered in any way. To sum the whole
matter UP it may be said that over on
the other side of the globe they have all
the opportunities and lack the material,
While here we have, so to speak, ma
tarl to burn, but are lamentably shy
on opportunity. Hegarty may turn out
to he some shuc1s, but there is no dope
to show it, and the prevailing lack of in
tcrest in the announced event may be
Laid to the fact that it is generally re-
garied as another cinch for the wonder
full lad from Brooklyn if he and the I'M
ported one ever cross gloves.
The fates have at last overtaken Jim
mic Connolly, an erstwhile shining light,
or rather a semi-light, of the ring, for
the sobriquet of "One-Eyed' was be-
slowed on him because of the fact that
he had to depend on the glass factories
of the land for one of his lamps having
ported with one of his optics in a scrap
so far back in the past that no mans
memory runneth to the time. AS One
Eyed Connolly he has been known as a
hanger-o wherever any thing pugilistic
was doing for the last fifteen years. Chi
cago knew him for many years, but of
late he has been browsing scantily in the
fields of Gotham. "One-Eyed" never
worked. He had for his stock in trade
an effrontery that partook rather more
of vitriol than of gall, a cultivated but
picturesque, cOckney dialect and his
glass eye When his superb nerve or his
H LESS eloquence failed to bring rim re-
turns and the wherewithal for "heatIn'
and sleepin'," Jimmy simply hooked his
store eye just as other sports hypothe-
cate their more valuable glassware under
similar strenuous circumstances 1t is
estimated that he has eyes in Soak-eyes
OF all shades, sizes and makeS-in every
large city in the land. How he managed
to thrive so long is wonder, but there
never was a great event in the fighting
line, no matter the distance, the price of
admission, or the other surrounding OBJ
stacles, that he did not land at the ring
side in the nick of time. He had the
get-there-at -tiVeneSS of that insect fa-
bled in song as the terror of the hall bed
room boarder. Stories of his adventures
would fill a volume.
But his course is run. He has pam
handled himself into an incurable state of
alcoholic dementia and incidentally into
Brooklyn bughouse. Last week he was
committed to the Kings county asylum
as hopeless lunatic. His chief delusion
is not an uncommon one among men who
follow the ring. He imagines he is the
champion pugilist of the world.
Talking about zig time in ring mat
terS the record now easily belongs to
Gov. Stanley and the solons who build
the laws for the state of sunf1oWers and
small potatoes and Mrs Nation and her
little Ratchet. Out in Kansas they had
an anti-f1ght law on their books, and
when Paddy Purtell and another man
violated it not long ago they were prop
erly and peremptorily pinched. They
mad money enough to take the matter
to the supreme court and that august
body decided that the law while it might
look well enough in print was not of
strength sufficient to make any one
amenable to the penalties it provided.
Whereupon late last Tuesday afternoon
Gov. Stanley sent to the legislature
message asking for the passage of
waterproof anti-fight bill, modelled on
that in vogue in Ohio Sixteen hours
later the bill, duly passed by senate and