Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-04-27
JOHN |. SULLIVAN
PLEASED AUDIENCE
IN MONOLOGUEA AND SPARRING
AT TURNER.
Jimmy Berry Fails to Throw Rein
hold SChOtt Twice in Fifteen
Minutes and FOrfeitS S5O-Vdude-
vile Features Were GOOd-MOV-
ing Pictures are Great.

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audience at the Turner opera house
last night.
1t was not John l.. who did all of
the entertaining, but there were
others. in fact, as far as real enter
tainment goes, John L. was side is
sue. But nevertheless the spectators
gazed upon him with curious eyes and
admiration as relic of by-gone days.
However, he is prime favorite and
even those who do not take kindly
to the prize ring, cannot help but ad-
mire him for his manly qualities de-
spite the fact that he has led prize
fighters life and squandered sum of
money in rapid life that would furnish
fortune many times over for the I'M
fortunates who are engaged in the
newspaper profession outside of the
Hearst class.
The program of the evening furn-
ished vaudeville performance that
was worth the price of admission
multiplied by few. There were
musical turns by Potts and Potts, an
exhibition by Miss Jessie Franks, the
champion lady boxer of the world,
and her sister, both of whom gave
clever exhibitions at bag punching.
Then there was the burly John l..
himself, in celebrated monologue, tel
ling of his travels the world over and
giving his experiences and relating
many funny incidents that brought
smiles to tickle the faces of his audi
tors. He also told numerous stor-
les that were minus crop of whisk-
ers and won favor with the audience.
The little Bannister sisters, in their
sweet songs and pretty dances, came
In for their share of praise and were
greatly appreciated. Billy Fan, the
Irish comedian, was also on the bill,
appearing in songs and dances. He
was good in some respects. One re-
deeming feature of some of his witt
cisms was that they had not been
heard lately. The moving pictures
were a feature of the evening, espec-
tally the fight at the Madison Square
Garden, New York, between James j.
Corbett and Kid Mccoy, in which the
latter was knocked out in the fifth
round This was witnessed with evil
dences of greatest enthusiasm and
cheers came from the audience at ex-
citing periods in the repetition on can
vas and at the critical moment when
Mccoy fell exhausted in his corner,
one would imagine that they were
witnessing the original and real thing.
There was also a three round sparring
match between John l.. and Kid Cut
Ter, his sparring mate. While it was
a rather tame affair, it nevertheless
served lesson to the uninitiated in
the manly art of self defense.
The big event of the evening and
what worked the enthusiasm was the
wrestling match between Jimmy Ber-
ry, who travels with the Sullivan
show, and Reinhold Schott of this
CITY, Berry being anxious to make
the wager he could put Schott down
twice in fifteen minutes or forfeit
the sum of $4,000. Berry lost and
Schott proved to his local admirers
that he is game. Berry failed to
throw him twice in the specified time,
getting only one fall which was in
eight minutes and three quarters. The
outcome was the signal for a storm of
applause and congratulations were
many. Immediately after the deci-
sion the Leader man made rush for
the stage and put the following ques-
tion to Berry: "Well, what have
you to say of our man Schott," to
which the nineteen-year-o husky
wrestler replied: ''He's all right.
He's the best little man / ever went
up against. When it is taken into
consideration that Schott has not had
wrestle of late and was not in prop
er trim, he certainly has reason to be
proud of the showing he made. Bert
Smith acted as referee and r. S. Keel
and Carl Otto as time keepers, thus
proving beyond a doubt that the
match was on the square. 1t was one
time that Berry failed to get any
"easy money! which adds to the joy
in Schott success, for the reason of
Berry's anxiety to meet Schott, which
the management of the show declared
was against his wishes.
John l.. in his monologue was good,
as we'll as in his stories, which were
mostly on the Irish. He told of
couple of natives of the Emerald Isle
discussing the merits of the Irish as
warriors. One held to the belief
that the Irish and THE Irish-Americans
were the best, because when they en-
ter into war they offer up prayer to
the power above to protect them and
give them strength and that they in
variably won. A contrary opinion
was held by the other who said that
the Chinese were the best because
there were SO many of them that it
took longer to kill them and "can't
they offer up a prayer?" Eyes"
said the first, ''but who in hi can
understand them?'' The rest of the
stories were equally as good and kept
the audience in roar.