The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-15
JOHN L., GREATEST OF THE SULLIVAN
 CLAN, IS 56 TODAY

The Sullivans-what g family! Yankee' Sullivan, ssJack Twin and Mike Twin Sullivan, Dave, Spike" Jim and Montana Dan Sullivan; Owen Sullivan of Australia, Brook lyn Tommy Sullivan. and also Dick and Harry and scores of others fighters, all! But the greatest of the clan, the one whose name and fame will go down the corridors of time as long as mems veins hold red blood, is John l.. To that ancient gladiator the sporting world takes off it's lid to- day, the hfty-sixth anniversary of his birth. J ohm I1-that particular com bination of name and initial will all ways stand for the embodied spirit of fsfic battle, of hand-to-hand combat He is the last sof the ''bruisers,'' that hearty, virfle, hafd-drinking breed of man which is now but a memory. We have plenty of boxers today, but no more prize-fghters. who do pri- ] mevaI battle in the open- Few of us regret the change. Most of us are firmly convinced that modern ways are the best, in hstiana as in other do mains. ' ct we honor John L.. as we honor the ancient landmark, or any hoary relic of the past.
 Between that fifteenth of October in l 1858 when he was born in Boston and this birthday John L. has lived much and fast. Hesis now a comfortably l plump old farmer interested in chick 1 ems and pigs and such like, and as | temperate in his habits as any mem Der Of the w. c. T. U. Yet there was a, time when John LIS. thirst kept the distil1eries of Peoria and Kentucky l working overtime. Now he lectures on temperance before Y. M. C. A. aud | iehces, and tells them with great de- tail, gIeaned from personal expert l ence, why they should stay off the ] -d Sf1 And ks Inv the book, for it was not many years 1 ago that he was fiat on his back, with John Barleycorn astradd1e his buzzum ready to give him the goodnight punch. John l.. wriggled out and 1 since then he has stayed out.
 The old pugi1ist has a, quaint and old-fashfoned philosophy which is de- l cidedlyz m oSsy, but none the less in teresting. Listen:
 Son, if you want to make good in this world let the booez alone Yes an let women alone until you want tc | get married Work hard at the jot l you're on, no matter what it is, and don't get the fool notion that you want to go to college. Colleges are i no good. There's too much society too much thinkin'. in this world, and not enough plain workin' An keer out of politics.
 As for the ladies of the modern type especially the suffrasists, John L says:
 I'm against 'en-dead against 'e1n If they are married they haven't got any children, and half the time they ain't married. Bachelor gir1s-huh!- that's my idea of nothin' to be. We're goin' to have race suicide in this coun. l try, sure as a black man loves corr bread and chicken. Know why we're goin' to have it? Cause the ladies want to keep a stylish figure. It's getting so that if a man wants a. family, he's got to buy his wife a plaster of paris cast, so she won't lose her shape
 Gimme the ld-fashioned girl, like I used to know when a youngsrer. ev-
 cry time. But the young men ain't much better. at that. Too much ed
 ucation, booze ani being good fellows
 What they need is york;