The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-26
MASKED BOXER NEW
HOPE OF WHITE RACE

IOl l. VI UIttI L IinUL
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clouted once or twice, and for this
reason a whole lot OF the Irish did not
IKE TO accept him as their champion.
The promoters with an eye to business
realized that a match for the cham.
pionship of ireland would be Just the
peppermint. There was no other good
fighter IN Ireland at the time. But
genius Will find a way. One of the
promoters looked at the map of the
world and discovered Brooklyn. Now
Brooklyn is far enough away from
the United States to be the home of
lot of parents that never visited
America. That was a clever thought
so he Immediately suited his stroke
Of genius to action, hired lunch and
set sail for Brooklyn. He arrived in
due time and looked over the natives.
Joy was his when he beheld great
| behemoth of man who was WORKING
as the chauffeur of an ash cart. The
wise promoter had him handcutfed.
shanghaied him, and brought him back
to New York.
No one ever knew this fellows real
name, but the busy little press agent
got Industrious and called "It'' Mike
Morrisey. They sent Mike to a train
ing quarters. They didn I put a mask
on Mike, but they maintained great
secrecy at the training camp and there
was no way for a newspaper man to
get into Mikes camp to have look
at him unless he used a stick of dyna-
mite and even this high explosive is
barred in New York unless YOU are
a member of the Burglars Amalga-
mated in good standing.
Sample Come Ons.''
Finally the night of the Maher- Nor
| risey bout arrived. The d" suckers'' came
so fast that the police actually had to
| do same work to maintain order The
arena was damned when the boxers
climbed through the ropes. Morrissev
was the last to appear, and Just to show
that he knew all about boxing, he
caught hold Of the top rope and pulled
| himself into the ring. He stepped on
his own hand while he was doing this.
| but then it was in wise little New York
and no one noticed it.
The gong rang and Maher made a
/ teint at Morrissey. Mike took it on the
run and tried to do hurdle over the
! ropes, but they were too lofty and he
! had a spill. The referee tried to get
Mike up, but the spot where Nike hit
was covered with glue and Nike could
not stand erect again until Maher left
the ring
| Then there is Philadelphia, another
wise burg. They pulled two of the
richest that ever happened in Philly
! When Fitzimmons was going along
good, the burgers of Quakersville want
Ell some sport. They wanted to SEQ
! titz in action, and they wanted him to
! fight big one. They can go New
| York even one better in Phllv. for
the promoters there can dig up big
i ores and show them to the populace
without the aid of a mask.
| Philadelphia promoters are as wise az
Philadelphia lawyers. so it didn't take
| Them long to dig up a big opponent for
/ Fitzsimmons. One of the promoters was
sauntering around the outskirts of Phil
! ~ one day when he saw big all.
| around athlete playing with bridges.
/ He was a big man, sure, and he was the
real strong kid
He came from a good family. too,
hut he was working with a gang of day
! laborers--iust for exercise. at $50 per
day. He was some Ebroth of a bhov -
too. The rest of the gang, when they
wanted to move a bridge. would insert
key of dynamite and blow it away.
But not so with the big. all-around
athlete. whose name was Con Coughlin
When the boss wanted a bridge moved
and Con on the job. Con simply tucked
the bridge under his oxster (elbow)
and walked into the next county with
If. Con was the real goods, and whef
the promoter asked him if he could fight
he gave that dignitarv the tip that he
could ''bate' the English navy
Con and Fitzsimmons We're put on
and the Philly sports fell for IT, Fitz
simmons shifted and Coughlin went
down. Con claimed afterward that
Fitzsimmons hit him with a crowhar.
Philadelphia also fell for another
) frommage &c brie in the person of Henri
Won Plaac1e, the Rotterdam Cheese.
It was the good luck of Charlie,
'Kid' Mccoy to grab this soft one
: Plaacke was native of Rotterdam. II,
was the biggest and healthest looking
mackerel that any promoter ever un
earthPd
Henri was so big that they had t.
lash two ships together to bring hin
= across He broke every scale that h
stepped on. He was the tougherdan
KID, He used to breakfast on a key Of
two-penny nails and he ate scrambled
Aorseshoes for dinner.
They passed Henri at the customs
but they had to pay an awful wad o.
excess baggage on him. The customs
officials charged him up As cheese at tn,
al valorem rating.
When Henri climbed into the ring ani
saw 50 Md - Mccoy in the opposite cor
ner he started to weep He told tn,
Interpreters that he did not want to b,
arrested for infanticide. Mccoy along
side of Paacke looked about as big a
a pea falling into a hogshead,
The bell sent Plaaclle and Mccoy
away. Now, Mccoy was one of the
| nift lest hiftprS that ever 6Onnpd :