Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05


sore sometimes when l look back on
the days that was making all kinds
Of money and the way I let 1t 60 1t
is not any exaggeration that l have
have made $4,000 a minute, and
guess l have spent 1t about as quick.
They have printed all sorts of stories
about the sums that l have made and
spent, but they don't seem to hit the
figures. AS a matter of fact, have
blown in just about 500,O00--by
blown in l mean gave away and spent
and l have made | don't know how
much for other people. When l was
on the knockingout tour and was bowl
ing them over about as fast as they
could be brought up, took in the
money so fast l didn't even stop to
count it. l didn't know how to takN
care of it, that's all there is to is.
This old stomach of mine tells me
pretty plainly today what l did with
a great deal of it. Say, it's all right
for fellow to take fifteen of twenty
drinks day, but when you throw
in one hundred or two hundred day
it's different proposition. And when
| drank took the good old stuff. There
were no cocktails for me in the morn
, ing or any other time. don't be-
lieve l ever drank a half-dozen OF
those things in my life. Dill you ever
stop to thing what booze will do to
a mans stomach? No? Well, didn't
either until 1 got up against this
knock-down, but know now that
the stuff is no good.
II am going to tell you something
| that some of them may give me the
| laugh on. If had taken care of my
self l could go out and train today
and lick a whole lot of those fel-
lows in the fighting game. Jeffries is
a good fellow and the best of them all,
but have often wished that he was
around in my day, because / think
he would have been a mark for me.
Some of them think that the old
man is down and out now, but that
is not strictly so. couldn't stand
up and fight in a ring because |
haven't got the wind, but I've got the
'wallop' or two left that would put
a good many of them to the woods.
Some of the wise ones think that
old 'Fitz' is down and out, but he
isn't. He can lick them all yet, ex-
cepting Jeffries. Munroe is a nice
young fellow, good and strong and an
athlete, but he can't stay with Jeffries.
Corbett? Well l don't care to say too
much about him. He's no fighter,
though. He's scientific, and that's
all you can say. He didn't lick me
1t was old nature that did the trick
The legs just dropped from under
me, The punches he landed didn't
do any harm. | didn't feel them"
"Say, there was a funny thing all
the way through my experience. Il
don't think that | ever got a punch
that hurt me. They used to hit me
once in while, but that was all there
was to 1t. But what's the use of my
talking about scrapping now? I'm out
of the game. If | had my health and
weighed as much as | do now could
never go out and train down to 1870,
the weight at which | did my best
fighting. But I'll tell you another
thing, and that is that had l taken
care of myself I never would have
weighed so much that couldn't train
down. It's a mistake, my boy, that a
man at 45, my age, can't fight. There's
'Fitz,' He's just as good a man as
ever he was, and why? Just because
he let the old booze alone and looked
after himself
Sometimes the life a man leads
does not do him a great deal of harm.
There's George Dixon, as good little
fighter as ever put on the gloves |
Everybody thought he was down and |
out because OF the rum he absorbed, |
but he went over to England and is |
licking the best of them. Then, |
for the other side of the argument, |