Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-28
THE SPORTING NEWS.
THE PUGlLISTS
FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING.
Fighters Who Started Without a Dollar and Who Have Made
 a Fortune.

Prizefghting has been good thing for the topnotchers. Running through the list we find few of them left good positions to engage in ring work. Jimmy Britt worked on San Francisco newspaper for brief spell, being head office boy in the office where his brother Willie was re- porter Jimmy would have made a fine reporter if aggressiveness counts for anything. Jim Corbett was bank clerk and so was Joe Thomas. Frank Erne was learning the newspaper game but had advanced only to the position of bossing the other office boys and taking bowling scores over the telephone. Jack O'Kecfe was a song writer, but royalties in that business come only about once year unless the writer is away up in the first class.
 That about lets out the profession al element. Abe Attell, so he says, was a waiter in a restaurant. He probably landed six per and his meals. Now Abe has announced that never again will he box unless he gets at least $500 a fight. Jimmy Briggs was a fine little blacksmith at say $50 per day. He landed about S4,- 900 out of four fights when he was fighting the top notchers at the old Criterion club.
 Tommy Burns painted signs in De- troit and played professional lacrosse on the side. During good week with a game of lacrosse thrown in, Tommy was rich man on $50 for the week. He took $S,000 on one fight alone-the one with Squires. Jack Blackburn and Joe Cans both opened oysters. They received the princely stipend of $6 each. Cans landed $10,- 900 for fighting Nelson, and Black burn is good for few hundred every week in easy fights.
 . Young Corbett was about to be- come a carpenter like his father,when the swash of the gloves lured him to brighter things. If the brighter things had not proved to be the lamps up and down Main street, N. Y., the Kid would have been rich man to- day.
 Joe Cherry tended bar in his broth CT Bob's saloon. He became a boxer, and now he owns his own saloon. Bob Fitzsimmons was boxer at $2 per day, away down in Australia. He took $9,000 with him for losing a fight to Jim Jeffries fifteen years af- ter. Harry and Clarence Forbes worked in a dry goods store in Chi cago. Harry became bantam cham pion and made as much as 5000 in one fight. Clarence was topnotcher and while he never made as much as Harry, he often took down bundles of $1,0O0 after battle.
 Jimmy Gardner was shoe worker, according to his own confession. Jim my has been known to get as much as $1,500 for two hours work with the gloves. Herrera was faro bank dealer and bar tender. according to the times. He made $2,000 by knocking out Broad. the same for put ting Eddie Santry to sleep and twice as much when he lasted twenty rounds with Nelson. Eddie Hanlon started to fight as soon as he got out of short trousers. Now he is the owner of a large row of apartment houses.
 Marvin Hart worked on a brewery wagon. This was in Louisville where a teamster considers himself lucky if he gets $10 a week. Marvin came back to Louisville with S3,000 after defeating Jack Johnson, and $500 after whipping Root. He could have saved that much in about ten years at the old job, by carefully practicing economy.
 James J. Jeffries was a first class boiler maker and Tivited big steel plates at $5 per day. He is said to have received S1S,000 for whipping Corbett the second time. In his ring career, which did not include many fights. he probably cleared OC.0OO.
 Jack Johnson was a longshoTeman in Galveston. Texas. where good freight handlers get s4 a day. Now Jack wears large diamond headlights and demands a stenOgrapher when he wants to dictate a statement.
 Al Kaufman was a helper in a blacksmith shop up to a few years ago. when Billy Delaney discovered him. Al made two per day--now he can get two thousand easily for a fight on the coast.
 Harry Lewis worked in a machine shop at s5 a week. His first fight netted him g.. which he promptly spent, and for which he was chastised by his father. The next netted him slO and his father was there to col feet. When Harry finally reached the S25 mark the father took him out of the machine shop and set him to training and fighting as a regular business. Everybody works but fath- CT in the Lewis family and the old man owns rows and rows of tene- ment houses in Philadelphia.
 Jack Monroe was a miner. He stayed four rounds with Jsff and now owns a hotel and mines of his own Tommy Murphy worked on a farm al S25 per month One night he went from the Long Island plantation to a fight in New York and then started himself. He took S1.S0o out of Phila- deIphia when he fought Johnny Sum- meTs
 Terry MeGoveTn had a little push cart which he used in peidling fruit in South Brooklyn Terry made