Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1909, Page 30

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We had all the British serappers buffaioed on the shooting end of the game in the old days. Even Jem Mace, Tom Allen, Joe Goss and other good English pugs were leary of the Yankee shooters when they first came over here, But after getting next to the right people they in turn used to scare other English fighters who arrived here by relating alleged hair- breadth escapes from a rain of bullets at the ringside. “There was a game little” English chap who called himself Cock Robin and he was dead crazy to have a go with any 130 pounder. So we matched him with Soap MeAlpine, who must have outweighed him by at least twenty pounds, but Cock Robin sald he'd fight even it Soap weighed a ton. 1t was a cold night in midwinter, snowing hard, when we got together in an old road- house not far from Ridgewood, L. I. The fun 4id not begin until long after mid- night, in such a cold back room that everybody was soon lit up with the in- fernal booze which the bloated innkeeper was only too glad to sell. Tt was a banner night for him, and he told us to go as far as we liked, as he had everything fixed 50 that there was no chance of being pinched. Made a Marathon Record. “We let the game Robin punch old Soap for half a dozen rounds. when we started a fake rough house across the ring. First it was a war of hard words and then we began pulling our guns, shooting at the celling. Poor Cock Robin was the worst frightened man T ever saw. He was para- lyzed for a couple of minutes, and finally, dashing out of the ring, he bolted through a back window, carrying sash and all with him. All hands cried to him to come back and he would not be harmed, while some of the boys started atter him across the flelds in the deepsnow. But Codk Robin could run, and did run, faster| than any Marathon star 1 ever saw. “With only a pair of tights and shoes to handican him he sped along like a deer in the chilly wind. We felt sorry for the Robin, for it was only a joke, and we wanted to hand him a' purse for his game- ness in the ring. But he was never seen in America again. How he ever got to town that night. half naked, nobody ever | knew. T heard years after that he went back to his old calling, that of training dogs at Birmingham, telling his countrymea what terrible gun fighters there were in this country and how he ran fifty miles with a hatl of bullets falling all around him. One Buuch Outwitted. | "“In 187 Charley Johnston, Jimmy | Wakely, Phil Lynch and Billy Porter, the | | bank ‘burglar, crossed the Atlantic for the | purpose of seeing Jake Kiirain meet Jem | Smith in Krance for the champlonship of { England. These four Americans had the Ha! 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Near 16th and Farnam, reputation of being handy with the gun. | Charley Mitchell, who was Kilrain's chief | second and who didn't fancy the presence { of these gentlemen at the ringside, quietly {put up & job ta shut them out. Johnston | had been appointed Kilrain's umpire and | had declared in London that his man | would get fair play or there'd be serlous | trouble. He was so loud in his threats that George Atkinson soon declared that he | would refuse to referee the mill it Johnston | and his party were allowed to be present. | Mitchell was evidently playing the double | cross game by pretending to be Kilrain's | friend and at the same time betting his | coin on Smith, as it was afterward |learned. On the traln to Dover Mitchell | crossed over to where Johnstor was sitting and began in a rather playful manner to {fan the American for his gun. When he {found that Johnston was well hecled, { Mitchell sald: “T see you've got your re- | volver with you! Do vou expect trouble? | Not at all’ replied Johnston, ‘I've al- ways got it with me!' | “That was enough’ for Mitchell. who re-| | turned to Pony Moore and Atkinson. with whom he held a whispered consultation. | When the party arrived at Rouen, France, they put up at different hotels. Johnston and his three friends asked Mitchell if they'd have the time to get shaved and wash up a bit. Mitchell assured them that there was no hurry and that they would not have to leave for the battleground until ® o'clock the next morning. But when Johnston and his friends called at Mitch- ell's hotel at 7 o'clock in the morning they found that the fly Englishman and his cronles had skipped out about ten min- utes before, leaving mo word as to their destination. Johnston wired all over the country and finally discovered where Mitchell and his gang had left the train. When Johnston, Wakely, Lynch and Porter reached the station they were informed that Mitchell and company had taken & boat up the river. There was no boat in which to follow them, so0 the four gunners were left high and dry without a chance to witness the battle they had traveled 3500 miles to see, - It was a clever trick on the part ‘of Mitchell and he got away with it, although Johnston came nearly blowing his head off in Paris the day after | the mill. It was only the interference by some gendarmes that prevented a gunplay. How Smith Was Saved. jirain and Smith fought 108 rounds to a draw. Referee Atkinson said he stopped the fight on account of darkne but most of the fair play Britons at the ringside sald the battle was stopped merely to save Smith, who was backed by a tough mob. It was the old Jack Baldock gang, whose motto was ‘win, tie or wrangle’ With Johnston and his fel- low gunners at the ringside the result might have been different or there would have been some trouble. Mitchell knew this and that's the reason he gave the four Americans the slip. The English rowdles, as tough as they were, didn't want any blooming American shooters for theirs. “This same Charley Johnston was after- ward the backer and manager of John L. Sullivan and about the only man that ever could handle the big fellow. It was simply because Johnston would not stand for any funny business and was ready to hold up the biggest fighter ever born with his shooting iron. Sulllyan knew this and always vespected Johnston. I heard the latter on several occasions use rough lan- guage to Sullivan after John had been on one of his sprees. Sullivan never got angry, but took the lacing good naturedly and (ried to laugh it off. After Sullivan was matched with Kilraln he started drink- ing and never went to bed until after the | crook Hyer, but when they found that he THE OMAHA sun was up. When Johnston heard about John's orgies he came over from Brooklyn on the jump, hunted up the big fellow and the calling down Sullivan got was the| fiercest 1 ever heard. Johnston then | rushed the big fellow Into a drug store, gave him a dose of calomel and packed him off to Muldoon's farm to start train- ing. Sally Feared a Gan. “Sullivan, like all“ist fighters liked gunsmiths. When he fought Me- Caffrey in Cincinnati he might have knocked Dominick qut had not the latter’ brother threatened to shoot him several | times during the six rounds. It was only the assurance that Billy O'Brien gave Sul- | livan that no harm would come to him | that kept John in the ring, for every time | he got a peep at the gun McCaffrey's brother had he wanted to call the fight off. | At one time the gun man jumped into the ring—T think it was in the third round —and, holding it under Sullivan's nose, threatened to blow his head off. This little gunplay, of course, was dead wrong, but it surely took all the fight out of Sullivan, who was afrald to sail in with his usual hieavy punches. i “There was another time I saw Sulllvan | sidestep a gunfighter. It was the night that Charley Mitchell made his first ap- | pearance here by outpointing Mike Cleary. | Sullivan sat near the ring and kept coach- ing Cleary. A man named Kenny, who sat in front of Sullivan, objected to the latter's subcellar voloe which was ringing In his ears, and several times he asked John to keep quiet. Sulltvan's answer finally was a swing at the jaw. Kenny Quickly jumped out of harm's way and | whipped out a gun. Billy O'Brien, who | had saved John at Cincinnati, jumped be- tween them and gave Sullivan a chance to | run out of the hall “Big Un” Fled for Roston. “Billy Tracey, who had killed Kid Miller on Broadway many years ago, once got on Sullivan’s trail, and if he had overhauled | the big fellow he'd have put him away as | sure as you're alive. Tracey stond by Sulll- van the night he fought John Flood on a barge In the Hudson river, opposite Yonkers. The New York gang were all with Flood and they didn't Intend to see | him wolloped. There was a ob framed up to cut the ropes and throw Sullivan in the river in case he was too much for Flood. There was a hot bunch of gunfighters abroad that barge and they were out for & sure thing. Little Tracey, however, game as a pebble stcod by Sullivan and turned the tide in his favor, Tracey had a few gun men with him and they all made good when it came to a showdown. The ropes were not cut and Sullivan won In a walk, in eight terrific rounds. Flood proved to be a mutt without any science. He was only a rough-and-tumble scrapper around the old horse market on the east side, but the #ang had an idea he was a coming cham- plon, Sullivan had promised to show up at Tracey's saloon immediately after their victory and Billy had a fleet of gay sports to meet him. But John forgot his friend Tracey and spent the night and his win- nings somewhere else. This ingratitude so enraged Tracey that he went looking for Sullivan and when John heard that he was after him he took a fast train for Boston. It was lucky for Sullivan that he got away, for Tracey, with or without a gun, could fight like'a wildcat, Policeman Saves Yyer. “George W. Walling, who was superin- tendent of the New York Police depart- ment about thirty years ago, used to tell a story about how he saved the life of Tom Hyer, then the American heavywelght champion. One night back in 1843, Walling, as a patrolman, was on duty on the corner ot Broadway and Park place when he heard @ great racket In an oyster saloon directly in froat of him. Suddenly a waiter rushed out of the side door and told Whlling that there was a murder inside. Walling im- mediately broke his way in and found | Hyer standing pver Yankee Sullivan, who | had evidently been roughly handied. Wall- | ing grabbed Hyer by the arm. ‘ ‘Who the devil are you? demanded the | big fighter gruffly “‘I'm an officer,” replied Walling.as he | showed his star, for in those days the coppers were not in uniform. * * They're going to bring the gang here,’ | sald Hyer in a calm voice, ‘and I don't | intend to let them murder me without a | hard fight for my life.' | ' Come, get out of here! Come along with me, Tom!' sald Walling as he led the ochampion to the street. After walking halt & block Hyer left Walling, saying that he | was going over to the BEmpire club, a powerful political organization in those da; “No sooner was Hyer out of sight than | Sulliman’s gang came rushing and bowling | down Broadway. They were chiefly gun tighters and were looking for a chance to | never had escaped from their clutches they raged like a lot of demons. If they had got to Hyer that night it would have been a reptition of the cowardly murder of Bill Poole, who was assissinated by Lew Baker | and a mob in a Broadway cafe years ago, Jack Dempsey’s Experience. ‘When Jack Dempsey was rqturning east after his first trip to the Pacific coast, his train stopped at a water tank station in Montana and a wild western bull puncher, swinging a big cannon, hop. ped aboard, demanding to see the pugilist. Jack tried to hide himself from the des- perado, but the gun man dug Jack out and ssked him to leave the train to have a ball. At first Dempsey refused, but after the bull puncher held his cocked revolver at Jack's head he consented. It was a tough looking bar and the booze was still tougher, so Jack thought he'd have some soft stuff, " “Not on your life. It's red eye or die?" yelled the desperado. ‘While Dempsey kept on making excuses for not drinking the fierce liquor, the bartender suddenly | grabbed the gun and struck the bull | puncher over the head with it. Then he | jumped over the bar and threw the would-be man killer out of the joint Dempsey laughed then and said he only | got off the train to save trouble. He wa: one tighter who would not back water for any gunner and T've seen him in some | very tight fixes, but he was always dead | game. | “One of Bob Fitzsimmon's little jokes | is to get some friendly fellow to box with him for the fun of the thing, shoot over a punch on the point of the jaw and put his man partially to sleep. He has worked this gag many times and has enjoyed it hugely. But he ran up against a tartar one time in Captain Joe Barly, who was Cal Me- Carthy's old backer and manager. Fits, in rare good humor one day, Invited Early to put on the gloves with him and the nimble little captain agreed on the con dition that the Cornishman would not hit | bard. After boxing a bit Fitz shot over a | vather stiff left and Early's brain became s0 rattied that he heard a million bird singing in his ears. It was what Fitz called a ‘mild knockout,’ but when Early came to in about three minutes, he whip- ped out his gun and Ruby Robert took to his heels with the little captain in full pur- sult. Fits was the f nner, but he dldn’t escape before two bullets whistied within a few inches of his top plece “These bloomin' gups are to fast for me, sald Pitssimmons a day later: ‘be. sides, when they land it's a real knookout with no come back.’ " | real training he sat back and declared that | Corbett was such a pipe that he didn’t have | and say SU EXAMPLES FOR JIM JEFFRIES Many Pugilists Have Waited Too | Long Between Mills, T00 MUCH REST IS OFTEN FATAL Jim Corbett, Gous, Chartey nd Othe , Joe sitenell, Fitrstmmons ers Camsed by Inactivity, NEW YORK, April “1 don't know how you fellows sige up Jim Jeffries' atti- tude regarding a match with the big coon champlon, Johnson,” sald the old New York sporting man to his friends the other evening, “but T think Jeff is a wise guy all right for not taking a chance while out of condition. Let us look back at the mis- takes other great fighters have made after retirement or a long rest between battles and you'll agree with me that the boiler- maker is not a chump. Fighters in a way are like musicians, artists and others who have to keep in practice in order to re- main at the top of the heap. “You all remember the sad fate of John L. Sullivan when he went up against Jim Corbett in 1892 Sulllvan for ten years heid the champlonship pt America againet all comers and considered himself invinci- ble. He had gone into the ring so often when hog fat and out of irim that he thought he could get away with Corbett without much training. In fact, his work at Canoe Place Inn down on Long Island was a perfect farce. He simply lald off there and guzzled bottle after bottle of ale right under the nose of his patient trainer, Phil Casey, the hand ball champion. When Sullivan's closest friends suggested a little to be in first-class form to win in a few punches. The night before he left here for New Orleans 1 asked Sullivan how long he expected the fight would last livan's Silly Boast. “'Oh, it may go eight rounds, but turther,’ replied John, who lopked the pic- ture of confidence. He was lying In bed in & room over Casey's hand ball court over In Brooklyn at the time, and I dooked him over carefully. He was as fat as a prize ox and as slow as molasses. He had a pronounced paunch and was in no shape to fight'a boy. It dawned on one then that John was up against it, and I told him then and there that he was making a mistake in taking chances with such a young, clever boxer as Corbett. John didn't like myjre- marks one bit and, getting out of bed, he offered to show any man in the room whether he could fight or not. Of course nobody accepted, but Charley Johnston, his backer, said to him: “‘John, you may fool the American public, but you can’t fool me! You're not fit." “Sullivan, who had much respect for Johnston, only laughed and replied: “There's no fear, Charley! I'll & walk! Stlll in his fat condition, we all thought that Sullivan could win, as he had done s0 many times before under similar ad- verse conditions. We all know the result of the mill,,Sullivan was too heavy and sow to get out of his own way. He never landed a solid blow in the twenty-one rounds. He became so tired that he couldn't hold up his arms in defence and finally went down in wections, Corbet continually raining blows on his jaws and body. Finally the blg brewery horse dropped, all in a heap, completely ex- hausted, but practically uninjured. As soon as he was counted out he got up slowly and made a speech to the immense crowd at the ringside—an unusual thing for a defeated champlon to do. What Jetf Knows. “Jetf knows all about Sullivan's Water- loo. He has read it over and over aguin Billy Delaney, Jim Corbett and many others have dinged it into his ears until Jeff knows round by round by heart. Sullivan’s downfall is a sound lesson for Jetf. He probably thinks it over nowadays to himself: “ ‘Nix! Not for mine! I'll be right when T get into the ring after four year's retirement. I'll take no chances!’ ‘“Phere's where Jeff is wise. One of the reason’s for Sullivan's defeat by Corbett was a layoff of three years. After beating Kilrain in 1889 John did not have a battle until he met Corbett and by that time he had gone way back, like many other fighters who have remained outside the ropes too long ‘Let me cite a few other cases! Thers s Jimmy Elliott, who gave Jim Dunne of Brooklyn the fight of his life.. Elifott was taken out of Sing Sing prison after many vears of alsence from the ripg and was pitted agalust that slashing young glant, Johnny Dwyer of Brooklyn. The battle took place in Canada before as fine a gang of cutthroats as ever held up a rain. Elliott was aged and slow and no win in | bank clerk away { who does about six good turns a year in Dwyer cut him to ribbons in eight rnum\!.‘ When they picked poor Elliott up and | washed the blood from his broken face | he turned to me and said: | “I've been (00 long away from the game. | It's my own fault. I should have tried my- | self out before I went up against such a clever man.” Jimmy Elliott's Nerve. | Walcott “And yet Biliott had the nerve to go up aguinst John I. Bullivan three years later, in 1882, in this city. Sullivan was in his prime then, just after winning the cham- | plonship from Paddy Ryan, and the way he knocked out pocr’ Elliott in the third | round was a shame. It was a picnic and | a lot of easy coln for the champiom. After | it was all over T asked Elliott why he| used such poor judgment in going on with | Sully, whereupon the broken down pugilist whispered to me: * ‘I neded the money that T can't break 50 I'm willing to big gloves. “With all | | I'm getting so slow | into banks any take a knockout more, | with his fauits' Elifott was dead game. Tt was not long afterward that e was killdd by Jere Dunn in a fierca| gun fight Ip a Chicago restaurant “Charley Mitchell fell to the layoff m take and got walloped by Corbett at Jack- sonville In 1894 as a result. Corbett was as fast as a streak of lightning on that occasion, while Mitchell was almost as slow and stiff as Sullivan was two years be fare. Mitchell hadn't fought for six years | when he got into the 1ing with Corbett, | his previous battle being the famous thir- | ty-nine-round draw with Sullivan in France. Mitchell was so fast in the Sulli- | van mill that John couldn't put the bee an | Lim, but the Englishman locked like a | elling plater when he faced ‘Gentieman | Jim,’ who knocked him out in three rounds. | When Charley woke up and began to think | it all over he said to me | “*How blooming stale 1 years! Why ever make that match, that pompadour gent any scrap!’ “And 1 guess Charley could, at that! He was a great rough house artist, you know! But Cosbett didn't fancy that style of milling, even when Mitchell ran up against | him in 3 Bowery saloon one day and calied Jim all, the choice names he could think of. No, James wouldn't resent the ingult on the spot, but waited for a chance lo B0t In a few T must have lost my nut to| although 1 can lick day in a street | that Bam ! as he did in the fight with Burns in Rus. that ever came square accounts with Mitchell in the ring and incidentally clean up about $3000 on | the side. | Corbett Makes the Mistake. “Even Corbett made the mistake of re maining out of the ring too long! What splendid fight he plt up agalnst Jeffries at Coney Island in 1900! He danced around the boilermaker for twenty-three rounds Jabbing him here and there almost at will ‘ Meanwhile Jeft kept using a round arm left swing sixty-seven times, according to my aceount, until he caught Jim on the Jaw with the sixty-eighth blow of this kind and scored a clean knockout. If Corbett | could bave stayed those last \wo roynds, Referee Siler would have had to hand over the championship to Corbett. Or i the af- fair had been a twenty-round go instead of one of twenty-five, Jetf would surely have lost his (itle. After this clever per- formance Corbelt waited three years be- fore he tackled Jeffries for the second time in ‘Frisco in 198, By this time Jetf had improved wonderfully. while Corbett | had been dropping back, with the result that it tdok Jeff ten rounds to put the ex- “I saw Joe Goss back In 186 put up a grand battle against Tem Allen in Ken- tucky under London rules. The next time | 1 saw Goss fight was with Paddy Ryan at Collier, Station, W. Va., in 1880. What & change had come over Goss! He was old and fat and slow. All his cleverness had left him, although at that he gave Ryan a &00d punching. Old Joe's wind finally gave out after he had battied for one hour and twenty-seven minutes’ and - Arthur Chambers threw up the sponge. Ryan was really the biggest dub I ever saw as-a champlon. He couldn’t fight a little bit, and beat Goss simply by youth and endur- ance. “When Heenan whipped Bayres in Eng- land in 1360 he was the ideal heavyweight. But like so many others, Heenan lald off for three yoars without a fight until he met Tom King.\ who beat him easily. Heenan was ¢imp'v & has been and he knew enought to quit, Tom Sharkey a Joke. fom Sharkey fought Gus Ruhlin the last time in 1902 at Coney Island Two years after that he met Jack Munroe, a third rater, in Philadelphia, and Munroe put it all over the sailor in a six-round bout. Sharkey had gone back so far in those two short yvears that he wae simply a jcke. He must have thought so htmself, for Sharkey has not been in the ring since. In 1904 Bob Fitzsimmors stood the clever Philadelphia Jack O'Brien off for six rounds. Three yetrs later Fitz, who had been out of the ring, took a crack at Jack Johnson and was stopped in two rounds, Bob was only a baby in the big coon's hands, yet if they had met four vears earlier Johnson would have been slugged down and out in jig time. “Look at Marvin Hart. There was a fighter, according to Jeffries, who should have been the latter's successor. When Hart got a decision over Jack Johnson at 'Frisco in 1806 Jeff picked him cut as the coming champlon. But Hart took such long. rests between fights that he graduaily lost his form and finally fell before the lemon, Mike Schreck. in - twenty-one rounds, at Tonopah in 1807. “If you want another ferrible example, take the once great Kid McCoy. He laid off for four years after winning a twenty- | round battie from Jack (Twin) Sullivan at Los Angeles until last fall, when with a flourish of trumpets he came back to the ring with a bout with one Stewart. a fourth rate dub. McCoy quickly showed that he was gone, that he couldn't fight at all, yat Stewart was even worse. -Those who saw this miserable farce lost no time in realiz= ing that McCoy had been ldle too long. Jackson an Example. “When Peter Jackson knocked out Frank ‘Slavin and also broke his jaw in ten rounds before the National Sporting ciub of Lon- | don the Australlan negro was then the greatest heavyweight in the . world, not barring Sullivan. After this vietory, how- ever, Jackson came 10 America and played in ‘Urigle Tom's Cabin’ all over the coun- try. Peter didn't fight again for six years, | but in 189 he tackled Jeffries on the coast and lasted just two rounds. That was the year bgfore Jeff becamie champion. Jack- son was sl in' and the easiest kind of a| mark for the boilermaker. It was another | {llustration of the mistake of waiting too long. “There's only one wa: y ! to keep on top, and that iy never stop fighting. Keep limbered up. Don't lose your speed by stopping for a year or so.| Big Jeff knows all about this and that is the reason he was tardy about declaring | himself one way or the other. While there | are many pugilists who lay off too long between battles there are many others who | fight themselves out in a few years. One is just as erratic as the other. The man | boys, it you want the ring keeps himselt warmed up and can take a look at the bright lights now | and then without tear of going back to an | alarming degree. Among the puglli s | who fought themselves out of it by too| constant milling were Dixon, Kid Carter, Lavigne, McGovern, Stanton, Ab- | bott and Dempsey. There are many others | who haye suffered from too much fighting. | Too many mills can injure a man just as| much as too much fnaetivit | LANGFORD WH.L TAKE THEM ON of Boston Middlewelght | Will Post Forfelt. | NEW YORK, April 3.—If Jack Johnson, | the champlon of the world, or Stanley Ketchel, the middle-weight champlon of | the worid, wishes a ten-round fight with a side bet of 85,000, he may sign articles | Joe Woodman, manager of Sam the Boston middle-weight, makes Manager any day Langford, the offer. “1 will put up $.000 or any part of it an beat Johnson or Ketchel in tncluding “For at 3 ten rounds or any other number a finish fight saild Woodman Ketchel we wlil make 138 pounds o'clock, or will make that weight in the ring. 1f Sam were to meet Johnson, he would probably enter the ring under 170, while Johnson would no doubt welgh 3 tralia.” A Johnson and Ketchel's manager did.a lot of talking the other day over a wire be- tween New York and Chicago. 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