Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-28
HEROES OF THE
RING In DOUBT
MAY BE FORCED TO ASSUME
FORMER ROLES
Several of One Time Famous Boxers
Are Now Enjoying Lucrative In
come, While Others Fight
of the Wolf

A question which at the present time
is agitating members of the fistic fra
ternity relates to the problem Of wheth-
er or not they must return to various
lines followed before they entered the
ring.
What they were before they bios
somed out as fighters and what they
are now is the subject of the follow
ing:
John l.. Sullivan was a Boston cab
man. He is lecturing on temperance.
Jim Jeffries was a boilermaker. Now
he's a farmer.
Jim Corbett was bank clerk. lie S
an actor at present.
Bob Fitzsimmons was blacksmith.
He is running farm now, doing mono
logue turns and fighting between times.
Tom Sharkey was a sailor He has a
saloon.
Kid Mccoy was a clerk in dry goods
store. At present he is capitalist.
Gus Rubin was printer and an iron
worker. Capitalist, too.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien drove a
team in the winter and worked in an
Atlantic City bath house in the sum-
mer. Also capitalist, still boxes, acts
and draws champions" salary.
Peter Maher was cooper in Dub
lin Qreland) brewery. At present he
drives milk wagon.
Tommy West was a sailor, then
plasterer He plasters still.
Joe Choynski was an iron worker. He
is travelling for a felt house.
Frank Craig, the Harlem Coffee
Cooler" "slung hash in restaurant.
lie has a roadhouse in England.
Sandy Ferguson was fisherman.
He's still looking for suckers.
Jimmy Britt was bookkeeper. Now
of hon pht
with his ring earnings.
Young Peter Jackson was window
cleaner. Still fighting.
Joe Cans was employed in fish mar
ket In Baltimore. Fighting, too.
Kid Sullivan worked in a billiard
room in Washington.
Kid Lavigne was cooper in Saginaw,
Mich. He's giving boxing lessons and
training dub fighters.
Joe Walcott worked in billiard par
lor. Out of work.
Jack and Mike Twin Sullivan drove
teams. They are both still fighting.
Jack Munroe was miner and pro-
fessional football player. He is fighting
now and then in small towns.
George Gardner was shoemaker,
Jimmy a bookbinder, Bill shoemaker
and PADDY held government job.
George is following the races, with an
occasional fight.
Jack Blackburn and Joe Grim were
bootblacks. They are both scrapping
along on meager ring earnings.
Jack Root was a gang foreman. He's
teaching boxing in Chicago.
Jack McAuliffe and Jack Dempsey
were coopers in the same shop in
Brooklyn. Dempsey is dead. McAuliffe
follows the races.
Ex-Champion George Dixon worked
in a photographers shop in Boston.
He's living on what he can pick up.
Terry McGovern piled lumber. He
fights occasionally and has a little
money left from his ring fortune. Most
of it went on the races
Spike and Dave Sullivan were team
sters. When through with the ring
Spike became whisky drummer. Dave
is loafng.
Young Corbett was a clerk in Den
yer store. Still in the ring.
Eddie Hanlon started fighting and is
still at it.
Aurelio Herrera was lookout for a
faro game in Bakersfield. He has
money.
INK Russell was a stevedore. Tim
Callahan and Kid Goodman and Benny
Yanger were newsboys Jimmy Walsh
was clerk in a Boston bank. Rouse
O'Brien was a machinst's apprentice.
Eddie Santry was clerk. Young Erne
provisions Tommy Ryan was clerk
in railroad office. These are all living
by their mitts.
Frank Erne was a pin-sticker in a
Buffalo alley. He is teaching boxing.
Billy Elmer was an actor. He has a
gymnasium. SO has George McFadden,
who started life as a janitor in a New
York apartment house (good training
for fighter)
Jim Jeffords was a miner in Califor-
mia. He still fights.
Mexican Pete Everett was miner
in Colorado. He's in jail.
Jimmy Handler worked in a brewery
in Newark. He still boxes.
Mysterious Billy Smith was a team
ster. He keeps sailors boarding
house in Portland Ore.
Kid Solomon was featherweight. He
is now a street sweeper.