The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-02
A Sermon on "6ooze and Cigarettes
by the Reformed "Pus" at
Kansas City is
Good One.
LEAVE 1T ALONE HE SAYS
"That Was the Combine That Knock
ed Out Jeffrics, Not Johnson
Says the Former 25-Year
Drinker.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. Eff you
can't take one drink without getting
drunk" says John l.. Sullivan, don
take one drink--leave it alone
Thus runs the philosophy of the
former champion of the American
prize ring, who, with his old-time
antagonist, Jake Kilrain, is sparring
with boxing gloves and doing bit
of monologue at Yale's theatre, zoe
Maine street. this week.
For twenty-five years. John L.
continued, Il tried to drink all the
whisky that was made After twenty
five years of active training in that
line | discovered that they could
make it faster than | could drink it.
Right then and there | threw up the
sponge. and that was six years ago.
| haven't tasted drop of intoXicat-
ing liquor since and I'm in better
health and have more money than
ever had in my life | decided that
day six years ago to leave the job to
younger man, wishing him well.
but feeling sure of his finish.''
Mr.. Sullivan cites the Jeffries-
johnson fight as an example of what
may happen to man who goes
against John Barleycorn.
"Jeffries," he said, retired from
the ring and started saloon. 1t is
reasonable to suppose that he drank
whole lot of liquor while running
| that saloon. He couldn't help it. Ev-
eryone wanted James j., the retired
| champion, to take drink with him,
and James J. generally was open for
invitation. Furthermore, he smoked,
! am told, five or six boxes of cigar
cites a day Cigarettes are worse
than whisky And let it be said to
my credit that that was one fault !
never had never smoked cigar
cite.
What was the result of those six
/ years of drinking and cigarette
smoking with Jeffries? His stomach
was eaten up. 1t caved in, and when
mans stomach is gone he has lost
the most vital part of his anatomy.
Brain workers or mind workers can
not do business without healthy
stomach. and whisky and cigarettes
strike directly at that vital part OF
the body and ruin it.
when Jeffries went into the ring
with Johnson he looked all right on
the outside. You know a drunkard
in the morning can get a shave and
some hot and cold towels over his
face and fool the people for little
while. You can't see the drunkard's
interior, but he can feel 1t. He is
deceiving you on the outside, but ne
knows all about the riot going on or
the inside. He knows he Is no good
He knows he is incapable. His vii
is weak. He is without the reserve
, necessary to forge ahead and DC
; things. He is weakling when he
.. meets strong antagonist, whether i
is a contest of muscle or brains.
sJeffries weighed 235 pounds wheI
he entered the ring. When he hat
fought five rounds he weighed ont
thousand pounds. After he hat
fought ten rounds he weighed a mil
lion pounds. After he had tough
!. fourteen rounds there was still oni.
!, one Johnson in the ring, but Jeffrie
: was seeing three Johnsons, striking
: at all of them and not hitting any 0
:, them
when Johnson foored Jefflies ant
Jeffries took the count 1t wasn't In
first time that the ex-champion ma
turned I'D his toes. Old Man Booz
had set him down for the count lon
before"