The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-09

ised to leave the state
Bob Fitzsimmons in row with Nc
Auliffe later on landed one of his knock
out blows on Jacks jaw, with the re-
suit that for the first time in his life
MeAuliffe was put TO sleep Not long
afterward Fitz and McAuliffe met IN a
hotel at Bath Beach. and this time the
Ianky Cornishman. who was not much
of a rough-and-tumble artist, took TO
the tall timber.
Theatre patrons on upper Broadway
were amused one night when they saw
McAuliffe chasing Jim Corbett from one
restaurant to another. Corbett fought
only for fat purses, under recognized
rules, and he failed to see any benefits
accruing from McAuliffe's modern chal-
lenge.
Mysterious Billy Smith was a desper-
ate fighter in and out of the ring. He
INDUCED in many rOugh-and-tumble
battles i'm saloons and on the street,
and i'm nearly all of them he proved the
master. But his encounter with Dick
O'Brien of Lewiston was an exception,
They met in a Boston grogsery one
night and, after a terrific battle, in
which everything went, OBrien made
the mysterious one quit. Smith was
also beaten to pulp by Dick Moore in
a rough-house affair at College Point.
In one of the departments of the
New York City government there is
employed a little man 5 feet inches
tall and a 145-pounder, whose name is
| Paddy German. He is an Irish Cock
ney, who came here twenty years ago
as the welter-weight champion of Aus
tralia. Along about 1890, when Peter
Jackson, also from Australia, was i'm
his prime, German had a run-in with
of Frisco saloon.
They rolled about on the floor, gOug-
ing, biting, choking and tearing each
others hair. with no Interference from
| the bystanders. until German got his
hands on Jackson's throat and put on
| the pressure until the heavy-weight's
eyes seemed ready to leap out of their
| sockets. Then Jackson cried for quar-
| ter. In the prize ripg, under Queens
| berry rules, German could not have
! lasted two rounds with Jackson.
! 1t was also in Frisco that Sam Fitz-
/ patrick, then Jackson's manager, treat
| ed Jim Burge. the Australian iron
man." to rough handling This was
another saloon row. Burge being finally
put to sleep with a blow on the top of
| the head with a cribbage board
| Paddy Ryan. when champion OF
America, visited a Bowery boxing hall
one evening with several friends.
Standing in front of the bar, was Red
Leary, the bank burglar.
Have a drink with me, Ryan" said
! the craftsman, reckoning to the fight
| er.
mot with you or any of your kind,
retorted Ryan, with sheer.
| What do you mean?" demanded
/ Leary, as he edged up to the champion.
''Why, I don't drink with crooks
| That's all" was the reply.
| Quick as a flash the burglar let &c
/ his right and landed fearful blow on
the bridge of Ryan's nose. Blood made
its appearance, and Paddy, putting his
hand on his nose, stepped back in as
| constituent.
He's not game" cried an old fighter
who was in the crowd. mo game man
| looks for his own blood"
The proprietor, seeing that there was
going to be a hot fight locked the doors
and pulled down the blinds. Meanwhile
Ryan and Leary were clinched in q
! fierce struggle. rough-hOuse rules
Leary was an old hand at this style OF
fighting and quickly backheeled the
champion. They fell to the floor and
went at it like two ldogs-butting
biting, kicking and punching until bott
| were covered with blood
| The burglar was a master in using
his head and butted Ryan terribly. II
| less than ten minutes Ryan was bad.
/ ly beaten man, and said he wanted NJ
more. They got up and the blood was
washed from their faces and hands
/ Then Leary turned 20 Ryan, who held
a wet handkerchief to his bruised fea-
lures. and said:
You may be the champion, but don't
ever get fresh for that reason! Come
and have a drink with me now! Hey
bartender, open a bottle of wine!' And
Ryan did not refuse.
! Joe Goddard, who was known in Aus
tralia as "the Barrier champion" and
one of the most dangerous men in the
| fighting game, was severely beaten
once in New Orleans by his manager
Teddy Alexander, who cut GOddard's
head open with a bottle and sent the
big Antipodean TO a hospital for re-
pairs.
The late Charley johnson of Brook
| Iyn-one of John L. Sullivan's hackers
made Johnny Dwyer, once heavy
weight champion, take water in Court
street saloon by using handy stphon
When, several years later, Dwyer was
dying of consumption in a Brooklyn
/ hospital, Johnson did his best to make
him comfortable.
/ Billy Edwards, in his palmy days
gave his old rival, Sam Collyer, a great
thrashing one day in front of a sport
/ ing resort in Center street. Edwards
also defeated Collyer twice in two long
hard battles on the turf under LondOT
| rules with bare knuckles.
Terry McGoyern has been beaten seY-
eral times outside of the ring. At the
recent bicycle race i'm Madison SquarS
| Garden McGOvern became involved il
a squabble with an unknown serapper
who knocked the Brooklyn boy ou
with a quick wallop on the point of th'
| jaw.
Kid Lavigne, one of the creates
pugilists in his day, insulted a news
paper writer in a Sixth avenue salooT
about ten years ago, and was promptly
| knocked out as clean as a whistle. Hi:
conquerer became so elated over hi.
success that he undertook to whip {
negro in Broadway several weeks later
and was so badly cut with a razor tha
he died from his injuries.
Young Corbett has also suffered de
feat at the hands of professional
whom he has tackled on the spur of thu
moment The last time the Denver boz
got into a mix-up George Jenney, al
English theatrical dresser wiped the
floor with him In Forty-first stree