The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-06
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Hcre Isl where The comed CON-
nences: Nobody hut few wise ones
believed l ever had chance with
Hall. Ny fight, with Dempsey ought
toSbave put them wise, but it didn't,
| and so when the bettings%Was called
was the short end of it, and most Of
the club outfit could see almost any
thing hut Fitzsimmons. This is not
swe'led head or anything like that, but
after I'd whipped Dempsey, that lad
was always watching out for me. and
I His wife told me once that when he
was on his death-bed he put a roll Of
money ne had saved into her hands
and said:t@.S 1893 J ~ 81
whenever, or whoever Fitzsim-
mons fights, place your money on him,
for he's bound to beat every man; of
! any weight. he ever meets, 49,
Poor Jack was wrong towards tho
last, but it went then. We'll. stories
like that had got about, and the;
helped Inc little in the betting hut
the big money was on Hall. Here
is where the fun commences and
where fought myself out of a hand
some stake. o. =
jim and 1 gotsinto the ring, and it
was all day for him, and he knew it..
He'd fourflushed about long enough
and while II wanted to show him jus !
how much of a ringer he was, 1 didn t
want the thingSto grt too short, for I
believe in giving a. crowd run for
it's money anytime: that's, possible. I
set it pretty. stiff for jim, and lons
before the. first rou7d was over
knew 1 had him on Queer street.
When the. fourth round came in
Jim was a cinch, and just handed
him his and began to count up that big
bit OF change in my mind. It's a
COCO thing Al counted z;it. there, for it
wasthe only counting =, did. While
I was putting a nice artistic finish on
Jim the good president of. the club
was out. I'll give you Eve: guesscs
and you'll never hit it,, unhss4you've
heard the. story. The president was
down the street putting up the purse
on Jim Hall. AS I am "a living man,
that's just what came Off There we
were in the ring, getting warm and
hrujsy, and the good president was
hiking from one place to another put
ting up the $4,000 ON dead one.
That's where fought myself out of
a good bunch of ready. stuff. If I'd
have been beaten, I'd have taken down
the short end, and that would have
been something, but l had to go and
whip Jim into plug hat, and just
because did, and the presidents judg-
ment had hole in it, got ,tinancia!
slap that hurt.
.1hen.I* thought of that fancy little
speech I'd made about sticking to my
'rold friends in New Orleans and
GOULD have sal. down and howled an
lLd;anF war song. !: l thought Of the
$4,000 we'd been offered<Esin New
York and&I could have hit-ssome one
with an Ak, but 1 had to stand and
take the. medicine, though I'll never
forget how mean I felt when they
came in and told me that it was all
up. 81. - 49,,
"Where's the coin?" 1 asked.
There isn't any coin,' said they.
1T went up on Hail.: D..
''All of it?' wanted to know.
Every red," said they, and then
kept quiet.
That was my good friend from New
Orleans. Say, but there are a lot 0:
things they can hand you in this
sporting game, and it's a new one
every minute. Think of me standing
up there to batter Jim Hall up and
down the ring for nothing. OF course
it Was some satisfaction to have, hand
ed James. his, and to shut his. trap
down about what he was going to dc
, to lac, but that money was bitter
wallop. I've got many worse one
in the ring, but they never hurt like
that did. And me all but broke.
Wow, 49, .: 80.
However, it's a good saying that it'll
all come out in the wash, and it did.
l. got along somehow, but that les
son taught me a" lot of things. ->Sis &
In the newspapers sometimes you've
read something like this:-s !"ssSome' de-
lay was caused at the ringside.a;. by
Fitzsimmons. He wanted the money
| put up in plain sight, and said he
wouldn't go on unless some reputa BILE
man held the stake ...,,-
Maybe you've thought it mighty
queer for a man to act that way, and
perhaps you've felt little bit sore,
| and had whole lot of contempt for
I man that couldn't trust anybody
| with the change he was going to
fight for. AZ
Well. now, do you blame F'itzsinl-
mons? Do you think he did that TO-;
a joke, or because he didn't want any,
| one to get the hooks into him again?
It's the old story, once bit, twice
shy, and it's burnt child that breads
the French ball.
I'm going to know where get my
! hands on that purse, no matter, how
things 60, and if any. more presidents
want to. gamble. they can, do it with
some other lads lads money, However.
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