The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-08
MOST FIGHTERS DIE POOR.
The Worlds Champion Tells Spend Money They
Make.
FlTZsIMMoNs.
BY BOB FlTzsIMMoNs.

4 seated IN parliament and then went in
Tor racing and some dickeFing GA The eX-
change. He began to drop mis- cash as If
he vas catching cold, and towards the end
feared he vas going to die in the work
! house. \ lot OF his old pals. however.
: saved him from that and he died a
pauper actually
J Ned o Baldwin. a splendid fighter who
gave Jem Mace a whole lot of trouble
10 put aWay-cOme 10 think o. il, Jem
never WO=ld meet him for the world :
championship, after all-was shot in The
back IN New York by iOafer he had led
and taken care of for years. IL was the
meIest accident that he didn't 60 TO the
potters field He was absolutely stone
/ broke.
johnny Heenan went up with a rush
after he beat Tom Savers, and II looked
as II he was going 10 get all the money
but he didn't. He opened a gambling
house on Broadway and went down Win
a rapid rush. When they came 10 bury
MIN they had take up a collection for him.
lie died cut ia Green River. Col
OF course. there are a whole lot OF Sood
men or To-Day who have managed 10 Keep
little Of their money, but look at George
Dixon. Its safe bet that George drew
pa over a million al one time or anotnet'
but how much of il has he got now. We
seen Tom ROuTke hand hinl ten-spot
pretty frequently, because he dldh nave
place 10 sleep, and i guess Whole iUt
or others have seen the same. WIN
George II was just the cOlored man Iofe
Tor hot living, He cOUldn seem 10 make
money stick TO him, anyway he got H. He
bought every thing IN sight ana was a
good fellow all the time. IN wonder
ing right now how many of the lads who
used TO live off him are coming around
now 10 hand him five or ten 10 help
him along. / don't think there's any need
Tor cop TO keep the line IN Order' OF the
crowd in line Tor that matter
1 dgl't believe anybody ever figured up
Just how much John l.. Sullivan made dur
ing his lifetime. and it's not doing john
a wrong 10 mention that he's no million
aIre now He isn't and that's all there Is
to IT,
Remember johnny Griffin the handiest
little man with his fists that came down
the roadway in a long while? Poor john
ny fell down a flight of stairs in New
York and broke his neck. and they put
him away without cent to his name,
though there was a woman who stuck
TO Johnny long after he was destitute and
Out at elbows. Whisky did Johnny, just
Is it. s done a good many better men.
Poor old Jack Dempsey died with but
he gave that TO his wife, but he made
d pile of il.
Jake Kilran made "a lot Of money in his
day, but where did it so? The heavens
only know.
Charley Mitchell has his. but it was
looked out for for him by his Wite's fam
lily. You can so on down the list and
youIl find, as rule, THERE'S something
his money. They don't seem 10 hitch at
all. I'm not pinning any medals on Bob
FitZsimmOns or anything he's got but he
was brought mp in Il hard school and he
knows the want of a few dollars, too
not just now, but ne has. Somehow il
seems 20 come so easy. / suppose, That II
doesn't seem any great hardship 10 let II
go a little easier and TO a man who 5
never been used TO all the money he could
handle maybe il seems a little strange 10
/ have IL so handy IN his pocket ana ne
let's go of il a whole lot quicker than he
ought 10, perhaps, because he knows ne
can go out and gather up another bundle
any time he wants tor thinks he can.
George Dixon 20 call on them any time
be was a little short. / also wonder Just
! how many OF them were at home when
I he did call. Mighty few. / guess. 1t sets
a chap thinking. / can tell YOU. when he
| looks back over the bench of good ones
who have gone before him and how they
have ended I'D. It's no 'cinch TO Keep
money for any man, and perhaps the real
reason is that the sporting life takes
money 10 keep ones end up. I've spent
quite a bit III my time. but l managed 10
keep within the railing and that's saved
me from the gong many a une. Pethaps
it's all mighty simple when II inquired
down close and a man begins 10 feel that
he's got them coming and that they can
help from coming, but / don't DeheVe q
mans the best Judge of his own capac-
its at all times. You know he doesn't fee
the other fellow coming mp on him-unuI
| it's too late, and it's pretty hard tmIe
/ 10 have TO wake I'D and find the croWds
shouting for Tom, DICK or Harry instead
of yourself. NJ
us a fact though, that most boxers die
poor and ii there any real reason why
| they shOuld-from a psychological point OF
/ view-Td like 10 know what II IS.
lCopvrisht. 1865. by Joseph B. BowIesJ