The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-08

The story of George DiXon's defeat the
othsf day brought me up with q round
turn 10 take look over the field of fight
IS who have gone 10 the bad financially
AFTER winning all kinds of good hard
money in the prize ring. and l. began 20
mink back over the list of men / knew
something of i'm OpP way or another who
nave come off no better.
It's a funny thing, but the average
tighter never has much horse sense when
II comes 10 handling money. 1 say the
average, but / don't count myself In On
the average By a whole lot. because I've
got neat little bundle. and ] am going
10 hang on 10 IL. IN plenty caSey enough
for that.
It's an actual fact though. that most of
the fighters have gone Off and have
wound Ip in restitution at the end. Per
haps some of those college shdrps who
find a good living in figuring out things
OF that sort and writing yarns about
them can tell what angle in "a boxer 8
nature brings him down that way. but 1
can't and so III leave IL 10 them. I've
been looking mp the records bit o. latt
and the first instance / can remempg'
Off the bat so 10 speak, is Yankee SUI
Ivan.
Anybody who knows anything about the
ring at all knows he was t0p-notchrt
IN the game half a century ago. Aan-
kee was, as / say, real HSAteE anu
his real name was Frank A. Murray, IL,
went along and beat everything that was
put up against him for aWhile-ard good
and Tom took his measure Then ne
stacked up against John Morrissey. ana
John trimmed him, TOO lie was down
and out. and he Went west lie landed
in California sOmeW here iu the fitues,
and the records show that he ran across
the Nlgilautes who were dealing out law
and order ia Frisco about that time.
They figured him Out for a bad man, and
he went 10 jail for awhile. While he was
there it was doped out that be was
mixed up with gang of burglars thdI
were pretty busy there, and while there
wasn't a shred Of evidence against him'
the Vigilautes arranged to execute him.
He was murdered in his cell, but he put
up "a game fight. just the same. lie
hadn't penny when he passed over the
divide.
Every body remembers John y. Glow.
who was shot through the heart by pO-
liceman AT Denver in 1880. The police
mans name was T.. &. Marshall and The
shooting occurred Dec. 6. When they
went through the dead man they found
Is cents, ana that was everything he had
in the world but his clothes, and Yet lie
had cleaned up good biz OF money III
his dal-
There was John Morrissey, who gath
cred up more money than any other
fighter OF his time. not even excepting
John l.. Sullivan and he died with -
cents in actual cash on him After
Heeuau put him down and o. he went
into the gambling game and opened up
somewhere on Broadway in New York.
I've been told ON good authority that u
one time MOrrissey was worth 1000 900,
and that he was steered by old Com
moCore Vanderbilt in some big real es-
tate deal After the Commodore passed
away MoTrissey hit the toboggan and
passed on 10 Join the rest.
It's a fact, too, that his widow went 10
work In "a collar factory up in Troy, y. "
and worked for years for dollar day
They tell q lot of stories about Morris
SeN and il has been said he gave his VIE
5000. O0O worth OF diamonds, and that she
used TO like 10 wear them all at once.
OF course it's history that MorrisseN
became a state senator of New York and
later a congressman. but II dldn make
his fall any softer that I've heard. II was
his fault, in a way. too, that Bill Poole
got his death in 1855. It's a long story
TO go into here, but Bill got mixed up
Ia politics and douDle-crossed Morris5ey
some way. They were GOing to mix II APP
with the bare lnuckles, and they were
going 10 meet on a dock. Each man vas
TO have two friends, but Poole showed
mp with 500. and the beating MorrlssSS
got sOured him Tor years, or course ne
was going TO get square and he did II IN
February of the next year. a gang mop
ped him one night when ne was IN stan
wiX halI on the BOwery, and Riil was
shot He lasted nine days ana ne VEN
over with the rest Ii isn't necessary to
mention that he had $50 when they
looked him over.
George Fulljames got his up in Mani
tOba a few years ago While ne was IN IAs
ring with an unknown. \ local man hau
some heavy none Won the unknown, and
when the time came where George Was
going 10 hand his opponent ms, the local
man Drained him with bunS starter, 1
don't believe the case was ever loohVu
into by the police.
Then there was John Gully "a cracker
lack English fighter. He made Il pot or
money. and after he left the ring got