Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-04-13
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Jack Everhardt has been busy shak-
ing hands with his many friends III
New York the last few days. He late
ly returned from South Africa and In
dia.
Everharlt left New York last July
and went direct to johannesburg.
South Africa. where he spent the time
sightseeing until one Tom Dingy,
the African middleweight champion,
began getting too arrogant. He heard
that Everhardt had been a star in
the ring in this country. and forth
with hurled ridicule at Jack. OF
cOourse a fight followed, and multi
tudes went to see the American
slaughtered by their own champion.
Mr.. Dingy lasted all of three and a
half rounds. Dingy had been quite
some around the dump, and the news
of his downfall spread quickly When
Everhardt reached Bombay his fame
had preceded him and he was chal-
lenged by every scrapper in the sta
ton. He picked out the best man of
the lot, Tom Lewis. the middleweight
champion of India. They fought on
December last, and in the middle
OF the sikh round Jack slung over
the slumber soak on Mr.. Lewis jaw.
Everhardt went from there to Cal
| yhnpo h. A.
by all of the fighters in town. One
Gypsy Smith of the Royal Indian ar
my had been beating up all corners
for more than a year before Ever
hardt wandered in. He lasted one min.
ute and thirty-two seconds of the first
round. Everhardt was hailed as king
over there after that, and it feels
strange to him now to be back on
Broadway, where he attracts no more
attention than lamp post
AT that, I'd rather be a lamp post
on Broadway than king in Africa
or India" says Jack
SAAiiiJ AsyoH SCHCldilH CTeulIOu
with being the shrewdest judge of
a fighter in the world, says that Mar
vim Hart is dub. Hart secured
Ryan's services as manager and
handler, but that arrangement ended
after the Hart-Burns fight. Ryan
says of the man who recently claim
ed the championship:
There is only one story to be told
of Marvin Harris defeat by Tommy
Burns. Hart is a counterfeit of the
rankest sort and about the worst ex.
cnse for fighter ever came across. y
: Ryan laughs at the stories Hart has
been giving out about being robbed
and about Ryan having quit him in
training and all that.
Il did quit him, that's true" said
Ryan. "But it was because there
, was no use of my going with him
. Nobody could tell him anything. He
, would pay no attention to me and as
, result refused to waste my time
: with him. He said he wanted to be
big. He was. He should have
weighed about 1856 pounds. Instead Of
, that he went into the ring at 200
But he was fit to fight fifty rounds
| Just the same.
[ 'The idea of a big fellow like that
yelling about Burns butting him and
roughing it in the clinches. He
should be ashamed of himself.
would not blame the little fellow for
yelling, but the big fellow, never He
was big enough to butt. too and rough
it. if that was to be the style of fight.
ing. But there was no use talking
to him about anything.
"He told me he was nothing of a
boxer, but was a great fighter. | ex.
pected to see him show it in this
fight. Well if that is the best he
can do the only wonder is that he
ever licked really good man like
Jack Root. That is something can.
not understand at all.
Burns is fairly good man and
SSuiu pCdt I1dII ilSut over again,
think. am not saying that because
VIC fell out. 1t is a candid opinion
and l think later developments will
bear out the prediction, At any rate
you may be sure Hart will never
amount to anything more than he is at
the present time. a discarded and ex
pioded counterfeit"
New York, April 12.-"Yes. sir. am
out OF the fighting game" said Gus
Rubin this week. 81 find that there
Is more money and less strenuous
life in the real estate business.
1--we made up my mind to get ou
of this sporting game and be a sub
Stantia1 man of business No Wanda