Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-10
EX-PUGILISTS BECOME COPS
Hasheens Seem Content to While
Away Time on the Beat.
SOME HAVE HIGHER AMBITIONS
.Ioc ChoNnski Now Engaged Teach
ing Others the Gnmc-Tommy
White working in Tunnel
kid Herman "a Florist.

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Every body knows
how base ball players. professional and
otherwise engage I'm tanning bees of the
past and present; recall tho great feats
OF the diamond and praise the doihgs
Of other days.
But did any one ever mix in a bunch
Of pugilistic tanners and hear any more
enthusiastic buzzing than the glove
wlelders can turn luose2 The answer is
no" for the old-time fighters are just
as talkative a tribe as ever could be
soften together.
Recently a bunch Of fighters past,
present and future, got together in q
prominent gymnasium, and after fights
without number of years ago had been
masticated to the kings taste, one OF the
bunch propounded a question OK natural
interest:
What becomes of the fighters when
their days of activity in tho ring are
at an end?"
The question set everybody thinking,
and in order to answer It was necessary
to take cases" on some of the fighters
Wild in the last few years have left the
ring for all time.
il was discovered that q great many Of
the pugilists had become policemen. In
Chicago, the home of many of the best
fighters who ever stepped between the
ropes there are many OF the former glove
wielders who now swing club instead
of the maulies.
Remember Martin Duffy. who was one
Of the topnotch lightweights of his time,
which was only a few years ago. Duffy
can be found any night in Chicago
travelling a beat. He isn't a lightweight
any more but has Joined the heavy
at cleverness. something like Packy Nc
Farand.
MOffat swings a Club.
Jack Moffat, the middleweight, who
possessed class, but failed to become a
champion. partly because he dlslocated a
shoulder In a fight. is a policeman and
travels a beat over Chicago streets.
Moffat met the brilliant Tommy RyaE
more than once in the ring, and Tommy
always gave Moffat credit for being a
fighter Of the first water. The bad arm
finally stopped Moffats ring career and
he donned the suit of blue as a means
of livelihood.
Jimmy Barry, the wonderful little cham
pion OF the ring in his day, also is living
in. Chicago. Jimmy continues to make
friends Just as he always did. and is earn
ing a living with something besides swing
ing on the other fellows jaw. Barry
spends the summer months working in
the public Fairgrounds. where he is con
sdered a huge success.
KID Herman, another Chicago light
weight, is a real business man and sue
cess has brought him plenty OF the
shekels. The Kid is in Seattle, Wash
where he is proprietor of a florists
shop. Herman almost reached the pin
nacle of fame, the obstacle in his path
being that wonderful colored fighter, Joe
Cans, now dead.
. Joe Choynski, who has made Chicago
his home for many years after leaving
California, has earned a living, and a
good one, too, by teaching the game that
made him famous. Choynski now is box
ing instructor at the millionaire athletic
club Of Pittsburgh. Previous TO leaving
Chicago, he conducted a physical culture
school, and also was Instructor at the
Illinois Athletic club.
Tommy White, who gained fame by his
great fights with Terrible Terry" Nc
Govern, still holds forth in Chicago For
the last couple of years he has been en-
ployed in construction work on a big
underground telephone tunnel.
The once great Australian mlddleweight,
George Dawson, who fought many battles
OF note. is boxing instructor at the Chi
oago Athletic association.
4,
time claimed the featherweight cham
pionship Eddie couple of years ago
was proprietor of saloon, but now is
officiating as referee of bouts in Wis
consin cities.