Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-26
Greatest Boxer in the World
Ending His Days IN Poverty

| vintage is without spot OF, srcci. AMI
carefully pressed and buttoned round
| ms athletic old figure. His gray nous
! tachesis as carefully waxed AS q cavaI-
! ~ olllcers'. and anyone WHO met the
| veteran strolling; along Piccadi1y on a
| sunny afternoon would put him down
| Tor some bygone dandy levisiting the
scenes Of his past trilimplis az
Jeln's grip is so fifmsas TO belpainfui.
II one is9not warned beforehand When
took his hand noticed d hard lump
! as large as q hens egg on the back or
u, asked him what it was. His
answer was to show me his left hand
! on which there is Il snilar.lu1np.
PUNCHED 800 MEN.
II got then, punching men, he said,
i've hundred of. them, all good men,
too. Those We're, the days when we
fought With bare fists and we were not
afraid of hurting our hands, either
Only two OF those five hundred men
enough. but it was my own fault and
! beat them both afterwards. Tom
King and Bob Brettle beat me-. | was
a bit careless the day J. fought Bob
l5rettie. took him too cheap and he
hit me one that smashed my; jaw and
knocked me clean out, but the next
time | beat.him / was careless, too.
and let him getin a. punch that should
never have reached me. hut L beat him
and beat him fair and good the next
time
They never gave me no thick ears
none Of en-. ] suffered more in my
hands from punching them than from
them Furnishing me. ! know more than
they did, | had u better headpiece, but
that was only in the ring. Ont of the
ring ] always wanted n master and
since my poor Wife died / have had no
one TO tell me what to do"
The old man almost broke down when
speaking OF his Wife. She died about
four years ago, and his hard times
date from her death. She left a. famI-
y, the eldest of. whom is 16 now. and
the youngest fonr. These children are
being looked after BY relatives and
friends.
MILLION DOLLARS ALL GONE
More than 100000 American dol
lars took out OF the prize ring old
Jcnl continued, and now it is all gone
Ten championship. belts and 10 cups
and they have all gone. have got a
bust of old Tom Sayers left, but / )
won't let that 80 il | starve. Where
has it all gone? Ask them that got
most of it. ] don't know where it has
gone. have nobody now to tell me.
How nave kept fit, they all ask
me. We'll, | never drank too much L
never smoked too much. and | always
took plenty of exercise. l am Very
fond of the fresh air and | am always
out in it when Lean. I can walk four
mics an hour today and when | was
young | could run 10 miles before
breakfast and think nothing of It,
was always a wonderful good man
on my feet and I'm pretty good YET
he declared as he trotted up and down
the bar parlor to Illustrate his spry-
ness
There aren't any fighters nov like
there were in my time john L. SUI,
Ivan was the last OF the old-fashiouad
sort that hit hard and weren't afraid
to be hit. He was u great boxer WAS
sullivan. and ! am proud to think
that | taught him one or two OF my
pet punches. The men that are fight
ing now spend their time lodging the
other man. They have neither the colir-
age nor the constitution 10 take their
punishment like a man and wear the
other man down by sheer hard, punch
ing That's the way We used to fight.
and the reason ! never was beaten vas
because | never, met Il man who hal
the constitution / had. oh. had th9
science. too. f,ilti fcs% of them cGts.d hiit
me, bur If they did hit j could stand
ii ana did not have TO lie down and
wait fol-, the referee to count. / III
WAYS fed Well, teos and that Is q great
thing for any man. Good plain food