Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1905-10-08

good men of today who have managed
to keep a little of their money, put
look at George Dixon.
It's q safe bet that George drew in
over a million at one time or another,
but how much of it has he got now?
I've seen Tom O'Rourke hand him
ten-spot pretty frequently because he
didn't have a place to sleep, and guess
a whole lot of others have seen the
same.
With George it was just the colored
mans love for hot living. He couldn't
seem to make money stick to him any
way he got 1t.
He bought everything in sight and
was good fellow" all the time. I'm
wondering right now how many OF lhe
| lads who used to live off him are COM
ing around now to hand him five or
ten to help him along.
I don't think there's any need for
cop to keep the line in order, or the
crowd in line for that matter.
I don't believe anybody ever figured
up lust how much John l.. Sullivan
made during his lifetime, and it's not
doing John a wrong to mention that
he's no millionaire now. He isn't anu
that's all there is to it.
Remember Johnny Griffin, the handt-
est little man with his fists that came
down the roadway in long while?
Poor Johnny fell down flight of
stairs in New York and broke his neck
and they put him away without cent
to his name, though there was a Wo-
man who stuck to Johnny long after
he was destitute and out at elbows.
Whisky did Johnny, just as it's done
good many better men.
Numerous Instances
Poor old Jack Dempsey died with but
mighty little coin in his possession
and he gave that to MS WlIe' Dut ne
made a pile of it.
Jake Kilrain made lot of money IN
his day, but where lid it go? The
heavens only know.
Charley Mitchell has his, but it was
looked out for for him by his wife .
family. You can go ON down the lst
and you'll frd, as a rule, there's some
thing wrong between the average
fighter and his money. They don't seem
to hitch at ALL
I'm not pinning any medals on BOO
Fitzsimmons for anything he's got,
but he was brought up in hard schopl
and he knows the want of a few dol
lars too-not just now, but he has.
Somehow it seems to come so easy
L suppose lldL IL uOSSll ocCill any
great hardship to let it go little
easier, and to man who's never been
used to all the money he could handle,
maybe it seems a little strange to have
it so handy in his pocket, and he let's
go of it whole lot quicker than he
ought to, perhaps because he knows ne
can go out and gather up another bull
die any time he wants it-or thinks
he can.
George Dixon to call on them any time
he was little short. 1 also wonder just
how many of them were at home when
he did call. Mighty few, l guess.
1t sets a chap thinking. l can tell you,
when he looks back over the bunch of
good ones who have gone before him
and how they have ended up.
It's no cinch to keep money for any
man, and perhaps the real reason is
that the sporting life takes money to
keep ones end no.
I've spent quite bit in, my time,
but 1 managed to keep within the rail-
ing and that's saved me from the gong
many a time.
Perhaps it's all mighty simple when
it's figured down close, and man
begins to feel that he's got them COM
ing and that they can't help from COM
ing, but / don't believe a mans the
best judge of his own capacity at all
times.
You know he doesn't feel the other
fellow coming up on fim-until it's too
late, and it's a pretty hard thing to
have to wake up and find the crowds
shouting for Tom, Dick or Harry in
stead of yourself.
It's fact, though, that most boxers
die poor, and IL there's any real reason
why they should-from a psychological
point of view-Td like to know what
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