The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-29
TO A CHANGED NEW YORK
THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW,
SAYS PARSON DAVIES.
Tie cant Understand the Race Traek SIT
uatiSn and the Fighters Aren't ~ Easy
To Hiring Together ~ They We're iR tho
Golden FilInle-s Days Of the y. u.

Golden filmie-s DaJs Of the y. u.
Sitting On a sofa at the Holland House
vest erdAy afternoon WIS dis in guizhed
looking man with white hair. smooth face
and a benevolent expression Near him
lay pair % crutChes Few Of thos. who
passed In and out seemed 10 recognize
him. Twenty years ago almost every
body who saw him ~ the lobby of ths old
Holman HOUSE would have spoken 10
him
IL was Charles T. Davies better known
as Parspn Davies the old time fight pro-
moter. theatrical and sporting man. who
was sitting there Eliminating over old
times On a visit 10 his sister IN ireland
abOui four wears ago he had a stroke
of paralysis On one side and sine" then
has been compelled To hobble about on
crutchss He spent several weeks 81
last summer AT Coney Island IN The neigh
borhood Of familiar srene-. and about
the middle 81 the summer a report got
out that he was dying. which he vigor-
ously denied Since then he has been
nut IN Chicago. where he has made MS
home aud he came EasI the other day in
tending 60 take sh = for Ireland to pay
AnOi her visit 10 hiss sister. but h" rather
thinks now he won't g.
4 picture Of the Pars1n printed IA the
police GassHs JUS about the time h"
fprsJok New York as a scene 81 ac' WHY
shows him with a heavy square beard
and must ache. but hts voice ~ gentle
and well modulat ed ~ ever IL Nas this
and has appearance that led - his being
dubbed PaTsDn. He saws the late liam
n Nanderbilt CAV. him he name That
was IN the 10
- seems odd here nos. sird Ia- Par
IN Yesterday. and don't $500 many %
NV old friends about hes Hoffman House.
hirh u-.-l - b" such a great hanging
NV place for them. gu--s they have
all mpvei up town Tom - Y YurS. h1S
l,.,..n in % see me and several ~ hers
hut I do NUS dear old PEI Daii.y Pc.
was the gent ler' -w....te@' uatur'..i fnl.
low thar ever was and MS dealt gave m.
a shock I have gold fountain l"u he
gave me. and when | thought hIu s's'
n 1 WAS IN great di~' re~s oG mtuu
4 came over here from the old country
when I was only - years Old. said MT
Dayis-s An my folks except my sister
mad already come mere My father dis-i
the folloWIng year. My brother HAIRY
..-ts bli-h.d The first ofiice fOr the Pinksr-
tons during the war think It wa. m
New street Harry was IA the sixty
ninth Regiment and was sounded AZ tbs.
hattie u BUN Run. knew R,chard
Croker from NV early bovhoOi and | ,
still think no - man among men
/ can scarcely understand the race .
track situation hereahOIt now. 70 - 40
different from what II used To IL IN the
old day- Now | see. theT have stopped ,
bettIng IN New Orleans
Among thu. pugillsts who were at times
under the Parsons mana cement were .
John l. sullivan. Paddy Ryan. Peter '
jackson. charlie Mitchell Jack Burke .
jimmie barry and Tommy Ryan.
There never was "A fsirer man than '
Peter Jackson said the Parson mus
ingiy lie Was honorable IN every way
took hum Ia London m Isso and then
abo,It fifteen or sixteen years ago l took
him Ia PARIS and then went ovet To Lon
don Peter was hyshful man Peter .
WA very dignified when he had his .
ordinary clothes on and remember that .
ona dly when We were out At the London .
700 some Americans who we're Nhere
GOT q lot ~ fun out ~ telling = lot of the
NATIVES that Peter was the king II some
African country.
-5oms of them went up and called
Peter your Majesty. and simple Peter
was quite fiuster..d. lie heat Jem Smith
over there when JeHriss h~at Peter
IN two round- u did him up and he
bouRht "a ticket TO Australia and wen,
there and died | used "a soc all a..
famous fights A. for sullivan. the hs.-t
men % his time were tho men he didnt
fght. such as Frank Slavin and jackson
and Godfrey.
-Thu-e used 10 H. great days " hen IN.
hug fights were held In Madison Square
Garden. Before that n great placs. fO-
fights Was the American Institute. on
THIRD avenue. somewhere near SIXTY
third street That's where Charlie
Mitchell and Nike Carey fought
1T will be % long time before this coun-
try will see the ATTENDANCE at a prize
fight that was AZ Reno. For one thing
there - now no pTiDehghter upon whom
the public looks ~ it, champion. here
IN M really biz fighter nowadays, though
I think Jack Johnson could hare licked
sullivan in the atteT's prime
In my day 10 was not such hard
thing Co bring fighters together "a ~
seems to bs now We did not have the
moving picture business To- sqIIa bible
about. and the prizefighter did not have
all the say ~ he does now. Fight mana
gers when they made = match went into
u with heart and soul. And ! tell YOU.
! would rather feel the way ! do about
my record in tho sport than tn have had
one with tho method that seems to pre-
vail NOWADAYS