Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

Jaek! Why don't they say Hello.
Toml"s a ,.I ..!.
e"oh, they know you're a tight wad,'
said McAuliffe, b 'Lossen,s up, once . in o
while and the bunch will be with you'
Loosen up, monl Loosen upI Why
i've blown o off twice already ex-
claimed Sharkey in surprise.
"'Ah, but that's plking!t| said Jack.
Why, I took a lady TO a little fish dinner
last night at Manhattan and my bill was
sS7.5OP
- little fish dinner for two? Thirty
swim dollars and a half2 Howly Murther!'
cried Sharkey in Amusement. Why, yez
must "a been eatih' gold fish,
"McAuliffe declares even now hat Shar-
key wal one of the cheapest feeders he
ever ran up against. He says that when
he brought the sailor from Frisco to show
on the road Sharkey on his way east ro-
fused to stop at any kind Of a classy hotel
and hunted up some sailors boarding house,
also that he travelled in second class cars.
81 tried hard to make a swell out Of
Sharkey,' says MoAuliffe, but he was
gated wrong. The beanery for him all the
time
"Sharkey, by the way, says hat Jack
II he had the Standard oil riches would
make q rittsburg millionaire look like 80
cents.
Charley Mitchell and McAuliffe had
many a good time, both here and in Eng
land. They were two very warm birds, 1
can tell you, whenever they started out for
an evenings lark in London. With Squire
Abingdon, the multi-mlllionaire, behind
them they enjoyed an unlimited amount Of
fine eating and drinking. Another of Mitch
ellis friends was Lord Cecil. whose father,
LORD Salisbury, was the premier. So you
see that Mitchell dined and wined with the
best, including King Edward when he was
the Prince of Wales.
Peter Jackson, the Australian negro
heavyweight, was also a stickler for good
food and always tried to patronize the
swell restaUrsEts-those that were willing
TO serve him. When Jackson first went to
England he was allowed to eat at the finest
hotels and cafes.
Bob Fitzsimmons was newer what
would call a high-class feeder, especially
II he had to foot the bill. He and Spike
Sullivan are In the same boat. They can
cook their own meals, wash dishes. sweep
and make themselves useful about the
kitchen.
Poor Con Reardon, who was accidentally
killed while sparring witt Fitzsimmons at
Syracuse several years ago. could eat a
leg of mutton without the slightest incon-
venience. Reardon was training a fighter
once down at Coney Island when Paddy
German, the Australian middlewelght, told
the proprietor OF the hotel that Reardon
could carry more fod in his stomach than
he could on his back. This so alarmed the
landlord that he promptly raised the price
OF Reardon's board and Con went cunning
for Paddy's scalp.
There is no fighter in the ring today
more classy in HIS eating than Young Cor
bett. He learned to cultivate mis- taste for
rich food in the lobster palaces on Broad
way just after he whipped McGovern for
this first time. For two years he went the
route that gets them all and didn't take
a tumble 10 himself until he was stone
broke, Later, when Corbett and McGovern
went on the road together Twins boxing
exhibitions, they never ate or lived alike,
Corbett always stopped at the best hotels
and lived on the fat Of the land. but Nc
Govern was satisfied with humble fare and
a cheap room.
when Jefferies first struck New York
he didn't have much OF an idea about good
eating. 1 remember one night after he had
whipped F1tzsimmons at Coney Island he
invited a few friends TO nave a bite with
him. He was headed for a beaneIy when
one OF the party called Inn aside and told