New Britain herald., 1926-07-14
(BY W. NJ. BRAUCHER)


 Connolly. inc rough and ready littl" Emperor Of Crash-in, whose lily white hands the feel of a purchased ticket have never known, has quit his throne
 The best since 1S97." the man who has crashed gate after gate a every great sporting affair in the world since Fitzsimmons beat down Jim Corhett on the hot sands ot Cursor City, Nevada, has got job.
 Ahc agn Of commerce has swal- lowed him up. He has forsaken art for palr. The only window he's crashing these days is the staid pay window of publishing company, He has hung up his fiddle for an other 10 shoot at.
 just a Walters Job.
 "I got tired of waiting around Was one of the reasons the famous aimon-purs gave for his abdication. Crashing gates these days is 8 walters job. The boxing game has become too much like the stock eX- change.
 Any as wants my job can have it. It's 29 years since I first fooled the bulls. I've kept the old slate rloam My crowns on the gate, if anybody else wants to grab it off,
 They used to fight for q ton of coal, a sack of flour, ham sand wich or for nothing at all. Now they want the Woolworth building deedcd over to them before they start training, and half of Wall Street before they step into the ring. Instead of uppercuts and right crosses. it's bids and offers"
 "One- Eye's' name has become an seen great things. When long Bob Fit2simmons hammered John l.. Sulliyan's conqu"ror into submission in 1S97 at Carson City, that one eye was there at the ringside, never missing move.
 Two years later the one eye saw q young giant from the west. Jim Jalfrics, trail T'itz's banners in the dust at Concy Island.
 "The cops said then they would keep me out" said "One- Eye "They never did keep mo out They've been saying if ever since. But not in this century did they ever beat mo. I'm winner"
 Saw JcT and Tom
 The cops couldn't keep him out when Jeff mauled Tom Sharkey. or in 1902 when FiDz made his last gallant effort 10 regain the title and went down into unconsciousness be- fore Jaff's sturdy attack.
 That one eye saw the black man swing his stcvedorc's mitts into Tommy Burns face at Sydney. Aus traliu, until Tommy could take no more.
 Then Johnson and the noble young Stanley ktachel and then thc pitiful tragedy at Reno, Nevada. l6 yeae ago this Fourth of July. when the black man taught Jim Jnitrics that youth is inyincible.
 These gates were all tough ones for "Onc-E Eye" 10 crash. But some how, mystcriously, there he would always turn up al the rinssi1c, un- paid That uncouth cap over his Jeff car there he would be. a def- anco of all that was staid and rcgu- lar in the world, the man who al ways beat his way, tho nimble- wittcd, the dodEpr, the woe of eate- mon and of guards.
 "Dnmpsry's such good boy, oo," said One Eye of the present champion. It's a shame they had to spoil him with that pleat in his nose, II he only would hght.'
 He Fakcd Wire
 "Onc-Eyc" was asked if he would sec Dempsey in his next fight.
 "WclI--" he said and scratched his hand collectively. That means he cant say no.
 What wae your hardest gate?" he was asked
 "rhe world series at Pittsburgh last year" he answered with no hesitation. They threw me out 1 3 times. But I finally made it.
 'Rut | had 10 put on a Western Union cap and fake 3 telegram to Bernoy Dreyfuss before I made the grade The cops down there had made I'D their minds they would keep me out, and they sure did try"
 Of his present endeavors, all One Eye" would say vac
 I'm promotion man for turf magazines now, It's nice steady job. For n guy with one eye I've