The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-18


pugilist left Chicago he was going to
take him 10 warmer climate.
John interiected considerable phil
osophy into his lecture. He gave foot
| ball some body blows ia comparing i
t. prize fighting. which be said is "a
much more refined and gsntlemaniy
game and he expressed the beliei
that President Roosevelt would have
better dined in some restaurant with
Booker =. washington instead Of IN
the White House
Sullivan had been scheduled 10 say
few words in opposition TO the IN
sidious cigarette and the evils Of
drink. He started IN TO do it. to9. but
got switched OF on story about his
father and man named Casey who
couldn't make an engine stay in a
rouadhonse because his father would
NOT keep the door closed This yarn
and several others that had evidently
been selected carefully from the bets
Ter class Of joke books, made a hit
John worked hard and cOnseientl-
onsly over bis lecture and when he
got through. just before midnight, he
said that he felt as though he hal
fought seyenty-fiYe rounds He start.
ed out all right at nine o'clock and
was standing up fairly well an hour
later, but he began TO get groggy
soon after he lett Washington mon
ument- one of the grandest things
ever perpetrated"
Slightly Tangled in Figures.
The lecturer was slightly tangled
in his figures az TO the diameter
around of Festival hail at the st Lou
is fair" ard his hearers We're not
sure he was right in his declaration
shout the "perpendicularly long
rees IN California But it was a
sympathetic audience and the lecture
aok wen. and must have Noted the
ex-prize fighter around $1,000.
~This ISM tho best John can do,
To tell the truth explained his man
uger at the close of the performance
The one be Is going TO give when
we start on the road after leaving
Chicago. sim Is In the hands Of two
typewriter men who are fixing it mp
This one IL all right but as You can
see. he grammar mas received Jolt
hsre and there and there isn't much
pe in calling Johns attention 90 it,
because he is sot in his ways
There couldn't have been a grea.
many admirers OF football In the au-
dience for every one made much noise
indicative of approval when the ex,
champion said. in standing mp for the
spor that made him famous Box.
4 ing amt half as bad as football"
"A great many p ople have got an
idea, said he, that the prlz fighter
4 is a plug pgly-an .Il' er~to guy-a
regular Jimmy tough but them hats
followed The game as long as have
4 knows thar amt so Some of the
finest gentlemen IN this country, IN
/ the past, once held The championship
\ and one Of them was q senator.
Lacks Kind Hearted Referees.
Boxing amt half as ba4l as foot
\ hall nor as brutal When two men
contests in a ring there's number
Of referees wha sees when, after
I several rounds. that one man amt
/, got no chance, and awards the money
/ to he otner The audience nearly
always / satisfied with The decision
because II dont want TO see he other
man murdered.
Nov ibis football Is an unrefined,
tough game, and no gentleman ought
% play Il II Is composed OF twenty
two men, eleven on each side. One
man gets the BAH and runs with It
and all the otaers take after him and
jump on him and Kick him, and hit
him below The belt There are no
j referees 10 say no,aing and the poor
guy gets carried Of the field with a
broken leg and maybe several ribs
I He's given five minutes and if he
can't come 10 the scratch after that
I he's counted out and another man
1 takes his place. The fight goes on
/ Just the same.
Can't Get Around Statistics.
/ nineteen mon lost their lives
went 70 their doom-last football sea-
son. Thems statistics and you can't
GET around them.
Its just as bad in horse race.
I The Jockey takes his life in his hands
al every race. It's time the law put
a stop 10 these brutal sporta I'm not
1 particularly stuck on telling ;hem lit
/ lie incidents, bJ / believe It's time