The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-04-01

The gay and frivolous purlieu of
Gotham casts a depressing spell upon
practically every alien knuckle shower
who tries to show EN- in New York
just how he does it.
1t would seem that if you don't like
fighter and want to see him be
whipped or have him make a miser
able showing, the correct recipe is to
York. Makes but little difference
what Is the calibre Of the foeman you
sic onto him. The New York jinx
will beat him even il his mediocre foe
man can't. :.
No heavyweight champion ever
made an suspicious New York debut
No incoming Britisher ever showed
| well in New York ring. No cham
pion in any class, appearing in New
York for the first time, ever did any
| thing to get excited about. And lot
of folks have been dethroned within
| the shadow of the Statue Of Liberty.
John l.. Sullivan's first real battle in
| New York was when he guaranteed
to stop Tug" Wilson, the diminutive
, Briton in four rounds. John L didn't
and the whole world gave him the
! "razz" Afterward he took on Charlie
Mitchell, another from foreign shores,
and Charlie stunned everybody-Sul-
| livan mostly-when he floored the
| champion for a short count.
Launches Own Career.
Bob Fitzsimmons' first big fight in
the New York district was against Jim
J Jeffries. And Jeff won the champion
| town was in 10. He divorced himself
as Jim Corbett's sparring partner in
| SCI and launched his own fighting
career.
Jeff knocked lot of them over on
the coast. He determined to go east
and fight Bob Armstrong and Steve
O'Donneu on the same night. Jeff
! fought but one battle that evening.
He won it from Armstrong-by a
shade-but when it was over he was
SO badly messed up that he couldn t
go on.
| And New York pronounced Jeff's
false alarm of the most conspicuous
kind. Yet in his very next fight Jeff
won the heavyweight championship OF
| the world-and before a New York
audience.
| Jess Willard fought several times in
| New York-and the town can't under
stand how he ever became a cham.
! plOu. ne never lOuSul like any IlilLs
but palsied fat man within the Met.
ropolitan confines, His fights there
against Arthur Pelky, Luther McCarty
Carl Morris and Frank Moran were
| classical "busts."
Dempsey Fought Four.
Jack Dempsey fought four times in
New York-and has yet to show 'em
that he's a world beater. His first
three opponents-OleA Anderson, Wild
Bert Kenney and John Lester John
son. went the full 10-round distance
| with him. The Utah Mauler" die
succeed in polishing off Bill Brennan
last December but because it took
him 10 rounds to do it when everyone
figured three as the limit-Dempse!
lost more prestige in the jinx spot OF
pugilism.
Bob Martin bowled over a dozer
men of various sizes and ability. Their
he made his New York debut against
Bill Brennan-and was whipped. Bot
Roper, after beating up everyone ou
in the sticks" got New York tria
against Al Roberts, presumed set-up
Roberts won the decision.
Charlie Mitchell, pride of England
was knocked out by Sullivan in hi:
first New York appearance. Bombar
der Wells. who came here in 1871:
hoping to fight Jack Johnson took OF
AL Palzer as a "warm-up." Palze
knocked him out Most of the othe