Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
GAME MAKES FIGHTERS
TRY TO COME BACK"
Jimmy Dunn Says It Isn't Money
Pugilists Are After at
All Times.
CALL OF THE WILD
PROVES TOO MUCH
Corbett Still Carries Gloves With
-Sharkey Still Has Hopes
Of Regaining Title.

Every other day We hear of some old
star In the fighting game trying to come
back, says Jimmy Dunn. The latest is
Kid Herman of Chicago, who was one
of the best lightweights in the world a
few years ago. He is now trying to in
duce some fight promoter to put him on.
There was Terry McGovern, who tried
to come back several times and would
not quit the game until they would not
put him on any more.
Then comes Young Corbett, who pit
fully tries to put. himself In shape every
once in a whilec but some preliminary
fighter beats him and we hear nothing
from Corbett for few months. But he
then breaks into print in some other part
OF the country, fighting some local boy.
He just can't quit the game, and will be
boxing as long as he can make a dollar
or enough to keep him in training
Stanley ketchel, middleweight cham
pion, lost his health and beat it for a
Missouri ranch to get back in shape.
Even jeff Couldn't Quit.
Even old JEFF could not quit He re-
tired champion, but the call of the ring
was too much for him: he had to come
back, and it would not surprise me to
hear of Jeffries fighting some one a few
years later. Look at Fitzsmmons: al
though he is fifty years old, he still tries
to beat some one.
There seems to be something about the
fighting game that holds the fighters
Some people will say it is the money, but
l really think it is the game they like,
of course, they have got to make some
money to keep going.
Being a pugilist myself, I know just
how they feel. You can't quit. If 1 was
not managing Johnny kilbane and the
rest Of my boys / sure would be fighting,
but get all the boxing l want.
Dunn May Try Again Himself.
But I often long for real fight in
the ring, but have come through about
two hundred battles and have never
been hurt or carry any Tin ears" as
they call them. l have been a little
more lucky than the average pugilist
with bringing out other fighters, and as
long as can get in the gym every day
and get a chance to do some boxing and
make money as manager l will be sat
isfied to keep out of the ring. But II
my boys would have any bad luck sup
pose l would be with the rest OF the
bunch, trying to come back.
Despite the fact that 1 am boxing every
day with my boys. the lust for the ring
gets t0tO my veins SO SITOQS at times
that it is all l can do to keep out.
And, to tell the truth, it is only the
fact that my mother wants me to quit
that keeps me from fighting. The little
mention recently in the papers that
might fight Bat Nelson worried her for
a week. But at that expect some time
to join the big list Of others and make
| my re-entry into the ring.
Corbett Carries Gloves With Him.
Jim Corbett Is another example of the
fighter who can't give up the game COM
pletely. He went out and worked with
Jim Jeffries giving up valuable theatrical
engagements to do it. And why? SIM
ply because be couldn't stay away. and
there was more truth than poetry in his
declaration some time ago that If jeff
did not fight Johnson he would. And
firmly believe that he would have done
1t. too.
Corbett still has that desire to mix it
in the ring and carries a pair of boxing
gloves with him all the time. And
whenever he gets chance in any city
he is always In a gymnasium. explaining
to curious fans this punch and that and
how he won some OF his famous bat
| ties.
Tom Sharkey, who is quite wealthy.
is still trying to get fight with Jack
Johnson, and is reported to be work
ing ont daily in New York. 1t is not the
money he is after. for he has all the
| money he needs. but simply the call Of
the ring that he cannot resist.
Battling Nelson, called the Fighting
Millionaire" is still training and fighting
and hopes to win back his championship
from AID Wolgast 1t is just the game
and the glory that keeps him in the fight
game, he owns half of Hegewisch,
| H.. and has enough to keep himself
royalty for the rest of his days.
Kid Mccoy. who owns three or four
autos, is a diamond broker and mar
rted to one Of the wealthiest widows in
New York. still is In the game, or try
Ing to keep in it He fought over a