Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-01

in Boston. Of the four Gardner broth
ers George was a shoe maker, Jimmy
a bookbinder. Billy a shoemaker, while
the Youngest, Paddy, held a govern
ment position in Washington; Owen
Ziegler was bricklayer in Philadel-
phia; Bull" Mccarthy was brick
maker in the same city: Jack Black
burn, the colored lightweight, was u
bootblack; Walter Campbell was a
sprint runner. and Horace Leeds work
ed on dredging boat; Peter Jack
son, the giant black, who went for Is
years without meeting defeat, was a
stevedore before he became a profess
sional boxer; Jack Root had charge Of
gang of workmen on the lake front
in Chicago; Joe Lannon was steve
dore; Frank Erne. the ex-champiOn
lightweight, worked around the news
paper offices in Buffalo when he was
boy, later becoming boxing instruc-
tor in the Y. M. c.. A. gymnasium;
ex- champions Jack McAuliffe and Jack
Dempsey worked in the same cooper
shop in rBooklyn and were lifelong
friends; Charley McKeever was a
cooper in Bridgeport, Pa, in his early
days; Paddy Slavin was a steamship
hand, and shipped from Sidney, Aus
tralia; Jimmy Handler worked in a
brewery in Newark, N. j., and Tommy
Ryan held a minor position in rail-
road office in Syracuse.
Among the little fellows, ex-Cham-
pion George Dixon worked in a photo
graph gallery in Boston before he be-
came pugilist. His great rival, Ter.
ry McGovern, sold newspapers in
Brooklyn; Dave Sullivan drove team
in Boston; Young Corbett was clerk in
store in Denver; Kid Goodman was
newsboy in Boston; Young Erne was
glassblower in Philadelphia; Aurelio
Herrera, the Mexican, worked in a
poolroOm in Bakersfield, CAL; Rouse
O'Brien was a machinist's helper in
Boston; Eddie Santry worked in
gents furnishing goods store in Chi.
cago; Eddie Hanlon started boxing as
a boy when under II years of age;
Unk Russell was a stevedOre; Jimmy
Walsh was a clerk in a Boston bank;
Tim Callahan was newsboy in Phil
adelphia; Marty McCue was a waiter
in a New York cafe; Gus Gardner
worked in a gymnasium in Philadel-
phia; Adam Ryan was employed in a
wholesale provision house in Phila.
delphia, and George McFadden was
janitor in a New York apartment
house. OF the English contingent
+ spike" Robson, now in this country
+ was clerk in a London store; Joe
Bowker was a paper boy; Jabez White
was bank clerk in London; Tea
Pritchard was farm hand; George
, Crisp was coal miner in Newcastle
, on-Tyne; ALT Greenfield kept public
house in Birmingham; Jem Carney, the
!, famous English lightweight, worked
on a farm; Billy Plimmer was EN-
= ployed in a bottle works; Pedlar Palm
er was costermonger, and Charlie
Mitchell was layer of Odds While
:, the above is only a partial list, limitet
\ space forbidding a more exhaustive
, review, it will give pretty fair ide'
o. of how the boys behind the puncl
;. earned living before the pugilisti
!, bee began to do aerial stunts in thei
!. head.
Second Lieutenant Charles D. Dial,
of the artillery corps, the famous Har
ward and West Point football player
!. has resigned from the army to- engag
. in private business. He received hi
commission as a second lieutenant or
y ly a year ago.
n One of the Butte fight fans who wit
k messed the contest between Kid Hell
l. man and Aurelio Herrera in Los An
l. geles only short time ago, state
y that on the afternoon proceeding tn
j. night of the fight he was in Holler
le beck's saloon in Los Angeles whe
ID Herrera was in there drinking brand,
n says the Inter-Mountain. This mar
a. who has known the Mexican for year.
is confident that he trained no NOR
al to meet Nelson than he did to NEE
f. anyone else.
Before the date on which Herrer
:" was to have fought Nelson the latte
. posted $4,000 to bind match wit
- Britt, regardless of who won in til
y Herrera-NelsOn or the Britt-McGO,
10 ern fight. Nelson says that Britt ha
. repeatedly announced to the press ths
% he would force return maIcn, an
=, now # he doesn't put up. his word
- no good. and he brands himself as
- gallery player. HE will try and crav
:" out if there is any chance in tn
= world" says the Battler. "Mone
y talks. Mine is down; let him cove
10 it."
};
u Johnny Bullman, the famous Helen
W jockey. is again in good standing, IL
h. ban having been lifted by the Califo
a MIA Jockey Club. Bull" will leave tn
H. coast shortly for Denver and then
to