The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-11
MASTER OF TWO,
JACK Of FOUR
That Is the Way John l.. Sulli-
van Stands as to
Trades.
WEED OUT THE FAKIRS,
THAT'S HIS COUNSEL
Advocates a Room Full of Fight
ers; All Singing to Set
tie the Title.
By John L. Sullivan.

I tinsmithing, bricklaying and lighting Tie
last two / learned thoroughly but mos,
OF the work 1 did in the fret two n
preparation for the last for / gradua
from plumbing by punching a jouru.
man who was bossiRg me too much, a.
i left the outchering after Offering 20
lick workman If he'd come out in the
yard
You see, fighting was my proper trade
and even during the tlne l spent in other
lines OF work, all counted toward the final
handicraft | turned 10 ms my real life
work When ] gave my dinner pail the
heavc up on alley 10 go or and dare p
Ryan To meet me, II was the first step
toward bidding farewell for good and oil
to my other trades and stay with the
Wallop game FOR better or worse.
All the hard work I old before becom-
Ing steady tighter was the best kind OF
training for what came after. and II
you'll think over some Of tho great fight
crs Of the past, yOu'n fsd that the best
stnSers have been men VINO did stunts al
sturdy trades. They have carried a
lighters raised by the hot-house process.
and they knew more about how 10 fight
on the level and less about taking
The new styles OF physical culture NAV
be pretty good for developing an athlete.
but the old style Of hard work at q trade
ls not so bad. 1t is not so pretty to look
at. but II puts the muscle and beef on
where II viii DO the most good and IL
makes man ready To go TO bed at the
right time and get the proper kind of a
snooze instend OF sitting up TO smoke ci-
garettes and do other things that chum
with hot-housc training
My advice To NIL young chaps who want
to do well in life is to tuck away tho
knack OF n good trade that will come In
handy when some fanclcr knowledge
won't be as handy In the pinches that
come to the best Of US,
Make the Gloves Harder to Cut
Down the Fokirs.
a lot OF dancing masters who are now
making money out of fghting could be
faded from the ring II the gloves in use
were made just n little smaller Some OF
the printers Ink fighters are more than
glad that they don't have to do more thnn
six rounds. and when they are dragged
into longer contest they can hardly
stay much more than half 4 dozen rounds.
with all their lodging and running to
avoid punches that wouldn't count at all
In the old days. If they were up against
smaller and harder gloves. they wouldn't
last any time at all.
I've seen some of these chapnies make
holler about the gloves offered to them
to do business with, and In one instance
saw case where two boxers raised
such row that the promoter had to send
out and get the whole stock from n shop
for them TO pick over to get two pairs
that were soft enough to suit their ideas
of what mittS should be. Wouldn't that
put you down for the count?
I was the first fighter to make move
TO stop bare knucklcS contests because /
believed that they were brutal and the
But / never moved for gloves that
wouldn't hurt kitten. Harder gloves
would help cut out a lot OF what they call
footwork. for n sprintcr after getting n
couple of jolts from hard glove wouldn't
feel quite so nimble on hie feet and would
have to stand up and tight. When they
get the airshlp so II Will fly. | suppose
some of the fancy lads Will use these TO
keep out OF reach.
Where O'Brien Learned the Punch.
That famous fake fight between Pompa-
dour Jim and Kid Mccoy is about the
date at which Philadelphia Jacks hitting
ability began to form into shape to bring
home the money. Kid Mccoy was a great
and hands, along with powerful lot Of
skill. but best OF all he had as stiff a
wallop in both mitts as any American
fighter OF his weight ever took into a
ring. The way tho Kid stood off heavier
men md chopped them into Hamburg
steaks Is we'll remembered. and 1t never
was necessary for him to fake with Cor
bctt for he could have stored that gentle
man away
What / started out to say Was that
o Brien first got both feet on the land
scaPe az a puncher after he had been
with Mccoy. helping to train the Kid for
the game OF tag with Corbett Until his
experience In McCoy's camp the Quaker
hadn't attracted any notice as cloutist
Ilt DeSn IN Il StTUSEleS, but
the Knockout punch WAS missing from
most Of them. After he studied the Kid
at close range, the money making swat
came to him.
Down the Fakirs.
The up-coming of O'BrIen backs up
what have said about the wallop being
tho thing for a win Before lack knew
how to hand over n haymaker, he didn't
attract much attention. although he had
been pegg1ng away. at home and abroad
Tor several years. getting decisions on
points. but not scoring many knockouts
When he copied the slumber swat from
great bit of a fighter like Mccoy there
was nothing TO 1t but a sneak into some
had the punch up his sleeve but he didn't
have the sand to use IL for fear of break
Ing his bones When he screwed I'D HIS
courage to take the chance I used to
take, the peaches began to fall into his
basket
Now They've Got Fight Trust.
They've got q lighting trust out in
Frisco, SO that hereafter all the boxing
In that town Will be in the grip of three
promoters They ought to be able to
lers wig curl with envy They can water
the purses, shut down all competing
plants raise prices to consumers cheaper
the product and do oil the other things
that the trusts pass out to the public
It's wonder the fighting trust has held
off as long as II has. for the way the law
makers have buttcd into this sport dust
naturally framed up a condition of this
kind. IT is the only legitimate sport that
has been sandbagged right and left, and
II has got the choke earlier and oftener
Than even gambling 1t is Il pretty good
game that could take all the foul hitting
boxing has got and still be in It,
During my time. I've seen all kinds OF
raw deals put upon boxing and boxers
The men who have made boxing busI-
ness have had 10 stand for about every
tEing from blackmail to imprisonment
and they've been chased up and down the
country like n lot OF hatchetmcn all be-
cause lot of old gcysers who ought to
bn wearing false fronts have time to set
the dogs on them.
Even with q President who owes most
OF his bounce TO his boxing and who Of |
fered TO hand every citizen square deal
the sport Is chased to the tall weeds In |
spite OF NIL, II interests more people to-
day than any sport you can name Base |
ball is called the National game, but n |
Is good only half the year while boxInp |
holds tho boards all the time. Give the |
gloves the same chance that other eames