Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-24

other day to write story of the old
prize fighters the fellows who a few
years ago were real champions, says
a writer in the st. Louis Globe Demo
crat, Where have they all gone? How
many Of them are dead and how many
of them are living and prosperous?
John L. Sullivan, whom John Boyle
.O'Reiily, the Boston poet, once called
the apotheosis of the prize ring, is
farming near Boston John L. went
through q fortune and painted many a
town in bright red. One morning he
wake up and then he went to work
and made a hundred or two hundred
thousand out of vaudeville and tent
shows And with this last fortune of
his he has settled down with his wife
| on a farm, and his neighbors say he
is, a model farmer at that
Charley Mitchell, with whom Sui
Ivan fought his famous draw at
Chantilly, France, is prospecting today
in England. Like many another
! fighter, Mitchell turned, after his re-
,, tirement, to the business in which he
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is now the proprietor of well pay
ing public house in. England. The
beating that Corbett gave him at
Jacksonville, Fla; in 1894, ended his
career
Peter Maher, the Irish champion,
tends bar in Various saloons in Phila-
delpnia now and then, and only a.
! short time ago he reappeared in the
ring. 1t was at Jack O'Brien's club in
West Philadelphia, and the former
/ fighter was put on in 1 preliminary
! against a mere novice. The go was
stopped in the second round to save
Peter. from the punishment that was
| being handed to him. Yet Peter was
a good one in his day-good enough
/ to Stop Joe Goddard, Jim Jeffords and
other big fellows.
Peter Jackson mighty negro, died
tof consumption in Australia on July
! 2, 1901. He seems to have been in
fairly comfortable circumstances dur
! ing the final years of his life, though
! he was not by any means as wealthy
4 as his big winnings in the ring should
have. made. him. Jackson, the famous
colored fighter, was a gentleman
/ from the ground up, and all over the
/ world he had warm friends. He was
perhaps the greatest fighter the world
/ has ever known.
i Jem Mace, heavy weight champion
] of the world from 1870 to 1873, prob
ably fought more battles than any
4 other man. He was, until the other
day. when he died there, a pensioner
under the old age law in England
, In his S0th year he was still tall
!. straight, active man, well in body
but empty in heart
Jack DempseH who stood. ready to
fight any man in the world except
John L. Sullivan, died of consumption
in Portland, Ore, Nov. 1, 1895. He
was clean liver, a man of no dissi
! pated habits and he made fortune IL
, the ring, but he was one of the mos
! generous men that ever pulled on {
mitt, and every cent of it went t.
! help his friends or in generous deed:
that will never be recorded He wa!
fortunate in having married a fint
woman, the daughter of a fairly pros
porous blacksmith in Portland Dur
ing the last days of his life, when b,
was too weak to earn living, sh,
!, took care of him and furnished tn
comforts that eased his fina
moments. Ill.,. "a. T..
George Dixon, in his time the cham
pion of all the little champions and
though colored, long known as tn
gamest fighter that ever lived, die
in Baltimore couple of years age
His grave is marked by a monumen
lerected by the friends who stood b
him to the end. The first and las
time that Dixon was knocked out wa
by Tommy Murphy in 1905.
Gus Rubin, who fought that grea
! Twenty round draw with Jim Jeffrie
sixteen years ago, died recently at hi
home in Brooklyn. In his latter day
he was prosperous and happy, haVin
Iput his winnings to good account. H
never was a champion, but he W.