The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-03

psychic stunt and as (, result of it. de-
I clares he, the pugilistic ghosts of other
days will be conjured to do their turn
4 for little tine, as they did it in the
/ days of the greensward and the skin
I tight glove.
/ 1t has been something like a cen
/ fury and half now. since the Boston
Boy laid Paddy Ryan low on the banks
of the lower Mississippi. To be accu-
rate. it was in 1883 that the one good
lrishman was laid away by better
one and the quuestion of the champion
ship brought down out of the air.
1 It, was whole lot later than that,
but almost as long ago, so far as mem
DRY serves, that Jake kilrain was
planted on the same well creased to-
/ boggan and between that time and this
there has been many another good
man sent on his way to the place
where all good mittsmen go, via the
same route. M
truthfully says that there is as much
II is these ghostly shadows of the
past that Sullivan would bring back
into the theatre of events, that pres
ent generations may see what manner
of man it was fought when nothing
save pistols was barred and the anvil
was considered legitimate weapon
of offense.
1t is in Seattle that Sullivan plans
the wholesale revivcation of the dead
ones. He has arranged with the di-
rectorate of the AlaskaY ukon-P Pacific
Exposition for a concession on the
Pay Streak and there he will set up
ring of the old days; not ring with
velvet carpet on the floor and lot
of sofa pillows stuck around, but real
turf ring, with a rock or two here and
there to make it feel homelike-and
with the four posts jerked from
, farmers fence with the nails left in
them. There will be none of your
coy corners says John l.. for either
) principals or seconds.
And through the ropes will go those
.. pugs of the other day and some OF
: later day, who still were fighters, fol
Z Kid Lavigne will be among those pres
j. ent and there is none to say that ne
/. was not a grand little man, who took
the gaff and liked it when it came his
way.
Charley Mitchell, traditional riva
of the Boston lad, is in with Sullivan
on the deal and stranger things couit
happen than that they Two should ge
together in the late autumn OF thei
r. careers to settle the long moot ques
t;on-they came near to mill only
pair of years ago
Sullivan has also pulled Jake HI
rain out of the never, never land, ant
d Peter Maher, champion OF ireland,
e, is announced will repeat that celebra'
l. ed Mexican experience of his. 10
Caoynski. one of the greatest OF Tn
10 old ones. who still lays claim 10
N nunch will be another and there
,r many a man today in fistiana VINO re
members the time Choyinski and jill
corbett went up San Francisco Bay 0
barge to have it out
, 4 forgot my gloves, said Joe Whe
the barge came to an anchor.
! Take these" said Corbett, and CT
: the fingers off them" and he pulle
: from his pocket pair OF drlVln
gloves with beautifully sewed sli
= welts down the backs OF them. y
hour later those same Welts mao MAJ
tho hank clerks face look IKE an W
improved hamburger steak. IL We
only the foolish or uniformed who a
tor that said Corbett had the streak
him. 90 .hor
, That Corbett will be one OF tnei
may not be said, for, bless you man,
& is now talking of tearing Jack 1ol
, sons head off and throwing II IN u
!, face and 1T is not seemly tha1 siios
: SHOULD talk like that !,
put If Corbett isn't, the rest OF u
old guard will be, an even score =
them and it will be such snow
4 will touch the hearts OF the ris'
r ones and be a lesson to these 'oua
chaps who settle their differences va
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