The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10

Public is Pickle and Soon FOrgets.
 Millions of men and a few women have attended boxing contests. and po- cts have written lines of verse concern ing the historic prize ring struggles, but few ever hear or can tell of the scenes that follow the downfall of hero of the roped arena. --...
 When the shouting throngs slowly wend their way from the ringside and a beaten star is led tenderly from the ring to the dingy partitioned space called a dressing room scenes follow that would bring tears to the eyes of the stout-hearted. They are truly scenes of heart interest that occur in the fighters room after a hard-fought battle is lost.
 Since the late lamented Nonpareil, Jack Dempsey, went down to defeat be- fore the superior skill of Bob Fitzsim- mons and the trumpeters of the prize ring heralded the coming of new won der in the freakish Antipodean, worlds championships have changed almost with the seasons.
 It was in 1891 that Fitzsimmons, a virtual unknown, battered down the seemingly inyinclble Dempsey, and really broke his heart. To this day the pathetic scenes that took place in the losers dressing room at New Orleans are tenderfully, if not tearfully, dis cussed by the fight lover of those gone by days.
 Poor Dempsey was the pride of all American sportsmen. He had thrown aside the cooper's tools to take up pu- gilism.
 A gentleman and a scholar, Jack Dempsey mingled with all classes and endeared himself to the lover of mill. His victories were clean cut, and it seemed that the man could never be born who could wrest from him his championship honors.
 But he was q mere plaything in the hands of the lanky one, who frequently begged him to give up hopeless bat tie, and only knocked him out when to punish him further would be brutal. That victory was the making of Fftz- simmons, one of the most remarkable figures in the world of athletics.
 RISE OF CORBETT. Following the defeat of Dempsey came the second of the thunderbolts to American prize ring men-the sensa- tional victory of Corbett over the nigh ty Sullivan which brought about the downfall of the second of the Three American Jacks" and opened up new era in the fighting business. There was a great contrast in the ac- tions of Dempsey and Sullivan after the referee had counted the fatal ten sec onds. The former cried as if his heart would break, and his closest friends could not console him. Dempsey's de- feat was his ruination. He went into rapid decline and died of what the phy- sicians pronounced a broken heart. He worried so that he became physical wreck and at his death was an object lof charity.
 l With Sullivan it was different. Hard lines, boys he said to the few old friends who gained admission to his quarters, but I am glad the champion ship was won by an American" Call- ling for a bottle of wine, Sullivan par took freely of the sizzling bubbles and soon forgot his troubles,
 It was just like Sullivan. He after ward remarked: What's the use of crying over spilled milk, I did the same thing to many a good fellow, but its all in the game.
 Sullivan had held the championship for twelve years. A dozen years have passed since Corbett beat down the bulky Bostonian and in that time there have been three heavy weight champi- ons namely, Corbett Fitzsimmons and Jeffries.
 No man ever took defeat so hard as ldid Corbett when Lanky Bob landed lhim that solar plexus blow at Carson lCfty. After gaining h1s rect he rayed
 like a madman and tried to assault Fitzsimmons and every one within ireach After going to his dressing Iroom he was like caged tiger and re- fused to be comforted. He paced up and down the little room long after Fitzsimmons and his party and most of the spectators had left the arena. He ]calmed down and began to cry. Be- tween sobs he could he heard to say: lteWell lost, but am the better man. Fitz must fight me again. He Is not 1.-the champion"
 After long season of triumph FItz- lsimmons himself tasted of the bitter lpill of defeat. At Coney Island the
 Australian had his laurels wrested from him by the giant Jeffries. He Itook his defeat manfully, even though The did shed few tears and appeared Ito be in d stupor. Still many whossaw 1.-the veteran at Coney Island after he lleft the ring a fallen champion were lcompelled to turn away. l FITZSIMMONS' WIFE.
 The late Rose Julian, the fighters Iwife who cheered him on to victory at Carson City, was present and looked lafter his wants before and after the flight. She cried bitterly and at one time her emotions got the better of her and she wanted to strike her husbands S Iconqueror. Fitzsimmons had nothing to say and gave Jeffries all the credit due him for the victory.
 The defeat of the little colored won- der. George Dixon, by Terry McGovern, furnished one of the most pathetic scenes in the annals of pugilism Bat tered almost beyond recognition, the bronzed fighter from Boston, who held the championship against the worlds greatest fighting men in his class for