The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21
COMMENDS BOXING
FOR THE SCHOOLS
John L. Sullivan Wants the
Boys to Learn the
Manly Art.
0'BRIEN AND GARDNER
THE FIGHT OF THE YEAR
The Right Kind of Welcome
to a Visiting English
Fighter.
By John L. Sullivan.

I was champion nt %, md although II
seems quite q long time since then, /
am only twelve days older than the
President, who is looked upon as quite a
young feller and nt to do things yet
awhile. They've tucked me on the back
shelf several times, but 1 bounce back
into the linleight and hero | am again
stll making good to oil who wish me
we'll There arc not many men who have
abused their constitutions as have
mine, l have been several times at the
point OF death, have como oft the operat-
Ing table and got myself ready for ono
of the hardest fights ever pulled off with
bare knucklcs. and won IT, and today
feel as nnc as n fddle with every string
in working order
And boxing has done this for me- II
they'd introduce boxing into the schools
more of our young Americans would hold
up their end In the struggle for bread
and butter md the doctors would not be
so rushed with work I've advised lot
or my friends that have growing boys to
get them into boxing, and some Of them
nave turned puny Youngsters into fne
Houng Fellows by giving them course
In this kind OF medicine
Brutal! There's nothing brutal in box
ing. Any OF our big sports have moro
dead snd injured charged against them
than has boxing. The boxing game got n
bad name because lot OF tabbies that
managed TO break into Legislatures drove
the sport to cellars and barns because
they didn't know any better. There never
was good sport that eOt tho dinky-dink
from the lawmakers this best of all
sports has had II. but 1t was too good
to XII and IT has managed to live through
II NIL These opinions arc the real thing
and ANYBODY dlsaSreeing don't know
what he's talking about
o'Brien-Gardner the Fight of Year.
What do you say Is the match that
would pull tho biggest purse today?"
night promoter wired me a short time
ago
Philadelphia Jack O'BrIen and George
Gardner" I answered as quick as tho
wires could hand 1t to him.
And that Soss. Those two fellows
como nearer TO being an even match than
any other two men In sight TODAY. They
fight about the same style and both OF
them got recognition at home by going
across the seas for reputation [ think
O Brien and he's Il little taller. Both OF
them have licked Marvin Hart. Gardner
was whipped by Fitz, but ! get IL pretty
good that stage fright and poor condition
made George to the bad In that scrap
and what he gave Fitz wore him down
TO o Bricn,s level, SO that, tho old man
would have been had Gardner never
reached him with some OF his stin welts
So. as far as the dope OF II goes
o Brien and Gardner ought To start about
even If they get together Months ago,
/ put IL In the papers that these two
men were due to mako a big showing be-
fore they went on the stage. that Is, If
they took care OF themselves From let
tcrs | get. | am sure that they arc both |
on the watch so that the demon rum gets |
no stranglc-hold on them. This being the |
case. II Will be battle worth remember |
ing II II comes of, for the two men are |
willing fighters and they do their work |
on the level. II is up to OBricn's State |
10 do some aw-chopping go that he can |
show the folks at home what he can do |
I'm a 2o-round fight. and IL the way Is
made for these chaps TO bumn together
within easy distance of New York ard !
Philadelphia. the event would come near |
10 being all the candy