The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-23

by the story of the life of these
great little fighters, the greatest
eir class that have been seen in the
ID States. ANY one Of them might
been worth 100000 today. / doubt.
EVer. II the three together could raise
= onisht."
tween them, Dixon McGovern and
Htt held the featherweight champion
- the United States for more than
4 years. AT their best, they were
ne in the ring; they were great
ar faVorites; they made thousands
thousands of dollars. But-they
the cocktail route.
y they are down and out. Corbett
packing TO start a saloon in New
McGoyern Is the ward of a COM
e that has raised funds for his care,
HDiXon is dependent upon the bounty
lie men who admired him when he
MT be beaten.
ocked Out by Man Behind Bar.
: iese little fighters, who wouldn't 90
before foe in the ring, succumbed
e man behind the bar" said the
Philosopher. The man behind the
has put ont poets. statesmen and
Tals. No matter how many hooks and
gs and punches a fighter may have
IS sleeve, no matter how big and
g he may be. he will fail before the
behind the bar if he signs to meet
Moral Philosopher walked out of
lub house with several pugiiists and
mana gers. The crowd went to a
Il y salOOn-a Broadway "cafe'-and
g line of glasses were set up on the
Not one of them contained a drop
iuor. They were filled with mineral
r. tonics and ginger ale They were
agah& and again and not drop NJ
wa2 swallowed by a man in the
see" said the Moral Philosopher,
the fighters these days are becOm-
wiser than they We're when John L.
IAN. Dixon and Jack Dempsey were
cir prime. Not one of these pugil-
lp against this bar is in training nor
he prospects of a fight. and yet you
he won't take a drop Of liquor He
Il earned by the fate of such men as
TT, Dixon and McGovern- The pres
of those three men in the ring to-
was as good a temperance sermon
er came out Of the w. G. t. L.
u rtue has other rewards than virtue
une and face for instance. Dixon is
E-seven years of age now Had he
he kind of life that the best fighters
these days he might still have been
hampton. Bob F'itzsimmons is forty
and he is still the champion middle
1t Of the world. and Bob has merely
eG excuses.
#rGoVern and Corbett are only TWEEN
sht years old. and ought to be Just
Il cir prime. Yet. both of them have
in the discard for several years
effort has been made for them and
- XOn by fast friends. but they have
to recover; they have been given
fes TO get back into condition and
themselves up again and every eff
q failed. They didn't have sense
gh to train. TO live decently. and
strong again The enchantresses
~ ~t. IL
cords that were steel as well as
e night ten years ago in Frisco. a
&days after Dixon had fought with
Hawkins. and when he was still in
rime, the hero OF the ring. | saw him
ering about Turk street all alone so
that he could hardly stand up He
q up against a lamp post helpless,
he'd the NJ. 2.
There's George Dixon. the greatest
fighter that ever lived champion
a erWeight of the world said man
passed.
Efeswon't be the greatest very long
the answer.
ithfn few months soHy Smith had
N, him i'm twenty rounds. The mex:
he lost the championship Of England
IN Jordan in twenty-five rounds. His
fall had begun. He won matches
4 that but he lost many He was
e IL Sup AlE AlLEAH tAAdA AAU SAAoAANA
put to sleep in a few rounds. It
his sclass, not his condition. that
him from humiliation.
Juggling along this way for three
= he managed TO keep himself promi-
Il and whenever he trained Faithfully
= owed a flash Of his old form. Then
IS that Terry McGovern was rising
me. Terry. like a WhiriWind. was
bling che little men before him. They
gOinx down with knockOuts in two.
fOurl five and six rounds. He
u inYincible. Strong vicious. rug
never stopping for breath or rest.
IS like a small lion in the ring. Thus
II iIhe came when the featherweight
piOn had TO meet him.
lev fought i'm the first part of 1890
sW York before mighty thTOng IN
= Broadway Athletic club. and. in eight
Is the little terror from the Gowauus
neTed the champion till he was a
I sight Battered and beaten. his
ger, Tom O'Rourge, threw the
e into the ring To keep his man from
81 knocked into insensibiliJy.
~ had won with the help of the man
a d the bar The little fighter who
II neld the championship of the United
; since he had stopped Cal Mccarthy
ri enty-two rounds in Troy in the first
Of 1S91-ni1e years-was a dead one
= age of thirty Refusing to heed
essOns that had been taught by the
Is Of Jack Dempsey. the mighty M
and John 1. Sullivan, the lion Of
ing, he had become as useless as
deuce before a royal flush. When
5 too late he learn I'd that muscle ard
Ky don't mix.
he Fall of the Gowanus Hero.
ry remained a hard hitting. sober
industrious Young man for twenty
months. Many of the ambitious little
his h HsafT Fr.s-
down or fought draws. and they
some Of the best in the game Then
= let Young COrbett. and in two rounds
as out. unconscious. on the floor OF
pa viiion at Hartford. He didn't be-
the Denver boy could do ii again,
when they met five months after
IN san Francisco Terry went dow n
l. That was more than four years
The second defeat seemed to take
cart out of the Brooklyn cyclone. and
Who once ted on the adUlati0n of the
dom Of his country, found new
r-bOoze. The eXhilaration that had
with victory was now manufactured
new way, and Terry drew from the
a the joy that he formerly got from
battle There We're, of course. other
ht reasons for his rapid decadence,
hev would not have counted had he
matched himself against the man be-
the bar And he went down to ply
and mental wreckage. the story Of
al&knOw. He has come back a lit
Il tha way now. but he is not the old
aud he knows it, At twenty-eight
a shorn lion instead of a great
an before Young Corbett had tasted
International fame he had started on
8ath which is trOd by the sirens OF the
all route When he rose to fame IN
rado- he began his career at the Ches-
Hxe-a famous cafe in Denver-and
he reached New York he continue
Metropole that insane life wherein
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