Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-09
MY FIGHTS WITH
 RUHLIN AND SHARKEY

Since I have been writing these rem iniscences I have been in receipt of letters asking me why I failed to mention my fight with Gus Ruhlin in New York. August 10. 1900, as that was, according to many of them, just as important in its way as any of my other encounters. To tell the truth, I had not looked on that particular fight as one of the most important, but since I have been recalling it, perhaps 1t amounted to more than I thought. for in a way it settled the chances that Ruhlin may have had for the cham pionship, by showing him that if he couldn't defeat me, he would have still smaller chance with Jim Jeffries.
 The fight took place in the evening. 1t may be remembered, and perhaps some of my good friends may remem-, Der that l took on Tom Sharkey with in two weeks at Coney Island, and cut him down to just where he belongs, and thereby fixed his championship bug so that it never bnzzed again.
 I don't call to mind just at this min ute whether any other boxer ever fought two big battles inside two weeks. but don't believe it ever hap pened before, except that one night out in Chicago about two months be- fore the worlds fair opened in 1893, when I managed to drop seven pretty heavy men, and that wasn't any picnic for me. considering that every one of them tipped the scales at something ever 200 pounds. That was pretty warm session, I'll admit. and 1t mace quite a sensation out in the Windy City, but it wasn't marker to the ex- perience d settling two would-be champions inside two weeks.
 You see, I wasn't sure just how much beating Ruhlin would take. Hes a mighty big man. and he was weigh ing considerably more than yours truly. and then I'd heard from mea who were in a position to judge. that he was strong proposition, and would take a walloping that would mean hard work to make him quit. Sharkey. of course, I had a pretty good line on, and I knew just about how long he would take to trim. Id been up against the sailor a time or two before. and I knew just where that sore ear of his was. and just about where I'd have to tickle him to send him away to 6reamlaBd. When I was training for my first fight with Tom. a man jumped out of a carriage out in Frisco near my training quarters. came up to me and said:
 Don't punch Tom in the jav. It's paralyzed"
 paid no attention to ii. but found out in that fight that he had a mighty tough javbone. and in the fight at Coney Island I paid a little more att teniion to the other parts of Thomas anatomy. However, to get back to business. had no accurate line of Gus Rahlin. and all had been able to find out only convinced me that hs vas q tough young fellow vho vOuii take a lot 0f beating Tvo or three told ne that he had a yellow streak. but III say right here that I never found that We iumped into the ring that night. and I remember a chap citing near the rinEsfas in a hoH ~hO made a hit with ne He sas a rice looking fellow. and he leaned over to his friend and said when climbed through the ropes-
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