New Britain herald., 1919-12-13
FATAL TEN COUNTED OVER JOHNNY DUNN
Veteran Boxing Official and Pal
 Of John L., Dies

New York, Dec. 13--The silver notes Sf John Parnell Dunn, which ushered sn many a ring battle and sporting Event in the old days, and though a Dit cracked and time worn frequent By clarioned forth more recent glove contests, will be heard no more. The 8sreat Time Keeper has counted John Ely out.
 , Poor Johnny-he never was called &nything except "Johnny" by the $porting clans-succumbo early yes- 3erday morning in Kings County Hos Pltal to wounds self inflicted a week Ego in fit of temporary insanity. Financial trouble added to long 8n onths of worry over a son who was 1n the thick of the fighting in France,
 proved too great strain for the vet Bran to withstand. The widow, Mrs. Emma Dunn, and a large family of &hildren and grandchildren mourn his loss. They are joined by thousands of Friends in the sporting world who #ame to love Johnny for his happy, Sunny disposition and his many like &lble ways.
 \ There are few men who have at Tended and officiated at so many fa- #mous fistic events as did Dunn. As & bosom friend of John l.. Sullivan Ind as manager of Matty Matthews, She former welter- weight champion, &nd other fighters, Johnny Dunn was # familiar figure at all of the import
 bnt ring battles in the 'S0s and the Horton law days that followed. For &hfrty years Johns strong, penetrating &foice and oratorical abilities were 8nllch sought as announcer and master &bf ceremonies. It has been his duty #o introduce, sometime or other and #n some instances many times, every Fling champion for the last quarter
 eentury.
 & His services were almost in as great #Iemand outside the ring as in it. He
 bff7ciated as announcer at the race Track, wrestling matches, athletic <meets, Vanderbilt Cup contests and EbtTler automobile races and more re- Ecently at aviation events. Boxing was &nis great love, however, and it is
 Through his connection with the ring &hat he best was known.
 Pal of John Ls.
 8 The late John Lawrence Sullivan &perhaps never had more ardent ad- &nirer than Dunn. Johnny thought so Smuch of John l.. that he named his <hrst born after him, John Lawrence gDunn. One of the crowning mo- 4nents of Dunns life, Johnny ire &quently said, was when he helped
 6ponsor and acted as master of cere- monies at the remarkable reception agiven John l.. in Madison Square Gar 2den few days after his defeat by $Corbett at New Orleans. Dunn was born in the old Seventh *Ward, Manhattan, and among his 3boyhood cronies were Gov. Alfred &smith, the lat Charlie White, Tom Trolley Joe Humphries and Paddy .Diyver. He moved to Brooklyn when Ia youth and lived in that borough for more than forty years. In his young days Dunn was 8 great ball IDlayer and played on the old Will f1iamsburg A. C.. champions of the old Amateur League. He long was an active member of the famous old Brooklyn A. c. Of recent years Dunn was official announcer and match make at the Broadway A. C., Brooklyn.
 Dunn will be buried from his late 2home, 543 Pine street, Brooklyn, to- I 5norrow afternoon. His remains will Hoe laid to rest in Holy Cross Gene 5fery 1t will be with a sad heart the sporting world says a long farewell to good old Johnny Dunn.