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antagonist should be one well worth
Witnessing

witnessing.
Johnnie Richie, who some time ago
retired from the ring, has re-entered the
squared circle, and. on Saturday night
last showed the East st. Louis public
that he can still do battle. He defeated
Jack O'Keefe handily. and although the
city at the other end Of the bridge is
his former home, he surprised the natives
with his clever showing. Ritchie has
fought over seventy battles and has been
beaten but twice decisively. Terry Nc
Govern beat him once, and Eddie Sprague
the other time. He evened the matter up
with the latter, however, by afterwards
defeating Sprague. Richie is somewhat
heavier than he used to be, but claims
he was not in the best of condition when
he met Keefe. The latter is a strong
man and able to go with the best of the
men in his class. Richie says he is back
in the ring for good and will meet any
man who desires a match with him. He
will meet Charley Parker before the st.
Louis Rowing club tonight, and it should
prove an interesting fight.
Is Eddie Santry going back? This is
the question asked by many who have
watched the career of the clever feather
weight. He went to Pittsburg last Tues
day night and met Jack McClelland in
what was to have been twenty round
go, but was knocked out in the fourth
round. Santry showed up eight or ten
pounds over weight, and did not show
his old-time cleverness or skill, al
though the bout, while it lasted, was mark
ed by scientific work and quick action.
McClelland, however, landed a couple OF
blows over the heart which did for Eddie,
and found him on the floor when Bill
Bradburn finished the count. The pace
at which Santry has been going for some
time is not one conducive to good ac-
ton In the ring, and it may be that Ed
dies knee was not i'll the best of shape,
but whatever the reason, certain 1t is
that Santry was not the Santry of old,
and it appeared so to many who Witness
ed the bout that he has outstayed his
usefulness in his chosen profession.
The symptoms of censorship have hit
San Francisco, although in a mild and
excusable form. Frisco has heretoeo
been looked upon as the one place of all
others where 1.-The bloke wot loves a milI'
could flourish to his hearts content
But the city supervisors of that city have
other ideas, and they have recently re-
fused the promoters of the Sharkey-
kid Mccoy match permit for the
contest. 1t was on the ground partly
that 1t would be In violation of a rule
adopted by that body prohibiting more
than one fight every fortnight, and fur
ther. they did not believe that a fight
between the two men named would be
on the level. If this latter stand were
taken more generally by the city author
tiles throughout the country it would
raise the standard of the game and would
shut out that numerous class who are
trying to reap dishonest gain by hippo
dromes which are not sufficiently
Well-played to deceive even the most gull
hble. The suspicion that Mccoy was
a party to one of the most gigantic of
modern fake fights was taken into
consideration by the California officials,
and license for the proposed "go'' be-
tween the sailor and the same willy Kid
was refused. The lighting game still
goes on, but 1t is quite evident that San
francisco has seen in the past the evils
OF dishonest sport and means to prevent
1t in the future. The city's action is to
be commended, and the example might
we'll be followed by the executive officers
of many of the cities over which the tide
OF social reform seems to be sweeping.
sHA
Here is new and hitherto unpublished
one on Prof. One-Eyed Jimmy Connolly.
Jimmy was standing in front OF Tom
. Rourke's place in New York. shortly
before his recent bout with the little red
satans and coiled snakes. The manager
OF ORourke's had been instructed to
Keep the professor out of and away from
the place, and when that functionarv
espled Jimmy leaning against the plate
glass front he approached him with:
We been instructed to ask you to
vacate."
ITO what?" Indignantly retorted Con-
molly.
ITO vacate-to duck-to make a speedy
get-away-to lam!' elucidated the man
ager.
by what authority" imperiously
asked Connolly, with his arms akimbo
and his lone live eye ablaze.
'Mr. ORourke," explained the man
ager.
"Oh! O'Rourke, eh?" returned Jimmy
Mr.. O'Rourke has given orders that the |
bars are up for me, eh? l mustn't come |
around. Must, as matter of fact, side |
step his august presence whenever 1 |
bump up against it, Ell? MY patronage.
like my presence, as the diplomatic mug
would put it, is persona non grata, Ell? |
O'Rourke, Ell? Well, with the compli-
ments of the professor, and the felicia |
tons of that same to Mr. ORourke. |
kindly inform him that beat him to it
You tell Mr.. ORourke that when YOU |
approached me here was lost in men
tai study of the genealogical trees Of |
the ORourke and Connolly families. and |
that just as you spoke I had found that
the Connolly tree did not say anything |
about any Of It's ancestry ever managing
a niger or running rum mill, and that
this prompted me in the firmly fixed
resolution never again to speak to him
or hold any sort of social or business
relations with him. Tell him, further,
that it was I, not the Lewis bill, that
stopped his fighting graft here. Good
day to you,' and Jimmy strutted on
with a stately swagger.
L. M Houseman.