Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-11

| SIS. II took me half an hour to lick
| him, with this money Jim Smith ana
| | went TO Mobile working half the time,
| and now and then getting night. From
| there We took boat up the Mississippi
| 10 st. Louis We were travelling seven
days, and had a trunk fun Of bologna
! sausage, as we didn't have enough
| money TO buy meals. Before We got
| there ! was barking like a dog and
| thought ! had the rabies. You know
| what | mean.
Well ! got along pretty well at 81,
LOUIS You see, Tom Allen. the fighter,
| had a saloon there ana he gave me u JOB
| as assistant barkeeper, You know what
| | mean--kind of a roustabOut, cleaning
| up the place, and now and then we had
a rough house, cleaning It out. Tom
matched Inc against all Corners The
! corners were principally tough loggers
who came floating down from
| Wisconsin on their RATS loaded
with logs. AS soon as the
| loggers unloaded their logs they
| loaded themselves with whisly-well,
| Tom called Il whisky--you know what
| mean. And when they got that stun
In them they thought they could fight,
| So Tom used TO match me against them,
! But by the time they got drunk enough
| to fight they didn't have any money, 50
| they used TO put up their big silver
watches that looked like alarm clocks
as forfeits. by the time they sobered
| up they wouldn't want TO fight. Tom
| would declare the watch forfeited and
| toss II behind the bar At the end Of
| the season Tom and me divided up a
! peck Of watches. But that's nothing.
Yes, l did have one good fight with
a logger His name was Ed Agnew. lie
weighed $50 pounds and was feet 3
inches high and the terror Of the log
| gers. We went down in the cellar and
had II out l finished him easily and
he took quite fancy 10 me and got
| me 10 go back to Wisconsin with him.
| got TO giving exhibition tights around
the country and did pretty well I'd
| hire han for 81 and perhaps take IN
| $50, The best man | went up against
in that country was Jack Sullivan, big
Irishman. In the eighth round | gave
| him a hard one I'm the eye. He threw
up both hands and yelled:
Holt. Bedad, I've got q straw in
me pepper an I'll fight no more
And they couldn't drag him into the
The farmers used to come in and bet
oyster stews and cigars on the fights.
/ had q standing challenge to knock
out any man IN the world. You know
what | mean The world in Oshkosh
wasn't very big and / was safe. L kept
! This thing up til 1872, when | got an
! fixed in fine shape with a new watch
| and a suit Of clothes aud came home.
w fufhar -,
| that ! vas a fighter. / started out with
George Siler and We went about the
country giving exhibition fights. i was
getting along quite well now, and was
lighting for $500 u side
Is ON A BREAK"
I'm Chicago l was matched to fight
Jim Taylor the champion of the west,
for $500, He weighed 40 pounds more
than | did, and was two inches taller.
The battle was fought out in Roberts
dale, Ind, just over the Illinois line,
and | found out afterward that the
| gamblers who got up the bout put up a
job on the chief Of police, Washburn,
IN order TO try to break him. They
had a Tip sent to him that fight was
being pulled off M Chicago, and he
started out with his sleuths to make a
raid In the meantime Taylor and |
were hard az 1t with bare knuckles. We
had fought rs rounds. and although he
was bigger than /, and had thrown me
several times | had him about beaten.
His head was as big as tar bucket,
snd he couldn't have lasted much long.
en- when zap comes train Of box cars
on the railroad track. which was with
In 100 yards Of the ring. and out hops
80 or mere coppers and pulls us all.
Although l had fought so long ran a
mile and a half before they captured
me. The cops took us an 10 Chicago
ana We were released on 81 900 bonds.
| But We brought suit against the chief
of police for srresting US In Indiana
ana without a reQuisition. But Wash
burn thought he was in Chicago all the
time"
Madden returned TO New York after
this and then spent two years In Cana
da. where he made Labeseur champion
OF the dominion Soon after this ne
went TO Boston and opened a saloon,
where he met John L. sullivan.
sullivan in those days was a great
big, rough fighter" said Madden. He
didn't have any science, but he was
quick, ana | saw that he had the true
stun In him. ! took hold Of him and
trained him, and had him fight Joe
Goss, Dan Dwyer, George Rourke and
others, and he surprised the people who
saw him At this time Paddy Ryan was
champion OF the world. and John want
ed Paddy to put on the gloves with him.
But, OF course, Paddy would not listen
TO him. So Sullivan came to me and
asked me II would take him TO New
York, I said I would. and did. but
when | got him there | didn't know
what TO DO with him. thought up a
lot Of schemes and finally hit on the
plan OF offering $50 TO any one who
would stand before him for three
rounds, Marquis OF Queensbury rules.
This was such an unusual offer that IL
attracted attention. | hired Harry
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