Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-20

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 way. and I nsured we'd both been put u1
 against wrong steer somshow, sx1d i
 hnally dropped him in the thirteSnth,
 and dropped him for good. It(wal l the only thing I could do to put ad
 end to such . farce. z l When I went looking for Carroll hs
 couldn't be found. I didn't see him
 all that night, and in tho morning [
 found he had taken the purse, and
 taken 1t to the bank, whore he'd put
 $6,00O to my credit and the same
 amount to his own. Then he went on]
 again. It was queer game, becauss1
 everything had to como out of my|
 end of the purse. all the training ex-||
 penses. and 90 forth. while Carroll's]
 was velvet, and he had it all to the11
 good. Even then I didn't 90 back on him,
 because don't quit an old pal that
 way An offer was made to mo to goI
 out under tho management of OttoI
 Flotow, and was to get $1 900 week.
 for myself. stayed it on, and
 insisted that I'd have to have Car.1
 roll along, and he'd have to get $3ool
 for his bit, too. but they couldn't see
 1t that way, and found out afterwards
 that they wanted to split us apart.
 A lot of folks went to him and told
 him a bunch of lies about what I'd
 said about him, and then came back
 to me and told me what he'd said about me, but never pay any atten- ton to that sort of thing. and laughed at them
 He believed them, though, and the next thing I heard from him was ' telegram one of the boys showed me from somewhere up near Frisco, in which he said he was on his way, was through with me, and was glad of it.. That ended that, and I don't know that was sorry, because that was surely dirty trick he put up on poor Jack.
 I went round to see the little man afterwards, and tell you he was 2 white one. I told him about how he'd been trimmed, and how I'd beon steereo that he was quitter, and we talked it over. That's the real truth about Jack Dempsey, and the brutality that was used by yours truly in the fight. Jack never was . quitter, and wouldn't know how to try. found out afterwards that it was all plan. Some of the gang down there had the fight doped out to turn, and the club figured 1t out that I'd probably knock Dempsey out in the first round, and the whole thing would flzzle out, be- cause the men who had come from other cities would kick at the short- ness of it. I've heard they took Car. roll into the game, and fixed 1t up with him to tell me that he was yell ow, and would quit if hit him hard, md that the only way to make tho hing go of right was for me to coax Jim along, and just sort of feel him mt for eight or nine rounds, so he sports could have run for their It was a low-down game all he way through, and it's about the me thing regret
 Ever since then I've been a little bit ore on New Orleans, because 1t was ust two years later that I had it landed to me again in the same town y the same crowd, and this time I ot 1t for $40,O00, which is something m going to tell about before long. d always been square with that New Orleans gang, and thought there 'ere nothing but friends in the town, ut 1t only goes to show you that 'hen mans pocket is in the case. here is mighty little friendship going round loose.
 Poor old Jack Dempsey Is dead ana | one now, but he knew all about 1t ight after the fight, and we were ood friends, for he knew that I'd cen played for sucker, and he'd cen the victim. He was the middle eight champion. and was the best Ian in the business until I happened long. and he knew in the first round lat could put him away in a punch, ut he never wilted for a minute. and hile the blood was running down his Ice he gritted his teeth and came lck at me for more of the same. The last time I put him down before Ie knockout I didn't hit him. just 1t my glove against his chin and loved him. and he went over in a zap, his head struck the dirt. and 1t as all u- v him then. We fought , . dirt floor. or, rather, the bare 'ounu. and he had about as much ud on him as anything. else where Id rolled about in 1t. Now, it's all over. and has been this
 years. but want to pay a tribute eht here to the best little man that CT wore a glove; the gamest fighter at ever stepped in ring. and with more yellow about him than there
 about blue peacock, and that's ok Dempsey. \