Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1909, Page 30

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The proposed fight between Joffries and Johnson for a pucse of $100,000 or more recalis the days of other battles and the emoluments the participants received for pounding each other into insensibility or a state approkching unconsclonsness with bare knuck'es or with hands encased in small gloves. The stake for which John L. Sulllvan and Jake Kilrain fought at Richburg, Miss., twenty years ago was not more than one-fifth of the amount which will be hung up for Jeffries and his dusky opponent, and the old timers who are now doing & boxing turn on the burlesque stage must smile when they read the newspapers with their daily bids from all parts of the country The approaching contest calls for forty-five rounds, with gloves. Quite a different test from that called for at Richburg when Sullivan and Kilrain fought with bare knuckles for three hours under the blishering summer sun. It was the last fight he'd In America under the rules of the London prize ring. and 1t was the bloodiest and most theatric that veterans can recall. Sulllvan, then in his prime, was the ideal fighting man. Ho had returned from\.England after his unsatistactory battle with Charlte Mitchell, and when his friends, Jimmy Wakely and Charles Johnson, proposed backing him to meet Kfrain, a strong, stalwart ex- oarsman of Baltimore, the Boston boy was only too eager for the fray. Money Melts Like Snow. Money melted like snow under April rains, and though he made it fast. Sullivan was well nigh crippled financially when the articles of agreements were signed. His temper, ugly.in those days, was not impfoved when he Isarned that Mitche!l was coming from England to prepare Kilrain for the battle, and Liney Tracy and the others to spar with the “big fellow" in his preparation were hammered righ and left by the mighty Bostonian, who when his hands - were up forgot sometimes that it was a friend he was confronting. Like Salvini and other great actors he became so realistic and earnest in his work that his companions were on more than one occasion forced to flee to save thelr skins. For many weeks before the battle the hands of both Sullivan and Kilrain were treated with a pickle to make them tough and hard until they were most. formidable weapons of offense and defense. Some of the curled darlings of the ring of to- day who eagerly inquire about the losers' end ofva purse before they will agree to spar ‘with pillowlike coverings on thelr hands would faint if they had seen the grim preparations for the Sullivan-Kil- rain mill. For the sake of those who have never seen a battle under London rules it may be stated that the code calls for bare knuckles and the contestants are naked save for a breech cloth or short trunks. ‘Wreatle or Punch in Clinches. In contests under these rules it was per- missible to wrestle and it was also con- sidered no violation of the ethics to punch in clinches—in fact, it was at this style of fighting that Sullivan was & past master. A found ended when either man was knocked down or thrown, and the seconds of the fallen man were permitted to carry him to his corner. ,The rests between rounds were one minute in duration. / So brutal were fights under the London rules that they were virtually superseded by those reputed to have been framed by the marquie of Queensberry, but the spirit of the game was so strong that whenever the best representatives met for the cham- plonship the older rules were chosen. They furnished a more severe test of the men and as they permitted wrestling it was considered the only true standard by which the merits of contestants might be measured. There was a tremendous clamor when the articles calling for a contest between Sullivan and Kilrain were signed and one state after the other throughout the greater part of the unfon announced that the bar- barous display would not take place within its confines. The late Frank Stey- enson was commissined to seek a battle- ground and after consultation with some of the leading sportsmen of Loulsiana it was glven out that the fight would take place within 200 miles of New Orleans and that quaint old city at once became the mecca of thousands of admirers of the manly art from the United States and Canada. One Eye Comnelly, Among others Mr. “One Eye" Connolly of Boston, who was more or less of a soldier of furtune, left his northern home a month before the appointed time and thrilled the rallroad men who came to put him oft the blind baggage en route with wonderful tales of how his friend “Jawn L. had “put his lamp on the blink one Sunday afternoon when they were playing hookey from Sunday school.” Mr. “One Eye" scorned to wear a patch and in tho spot where a good optic once reposed a glass eye looking moistlly upon a cruel world which always question- ing a “gent's intentions. Mr. “One Eye” was something of & diplomat and he never fallld to reach his destination, 80 that long before the gladiators had reached New Orleans he had many times perpetrated his little joke of removing his glass eye and placing it in the lap of a stranger, remarking: “Buy something; I've got my eye on you." But Mr. “One Eye” Connolly was not the only celebrity that looked at Henry Clay’s statue In Canal street and wanted to know “who that guy fought” There was Mr. Steve Brodle from New York with & yellow diamond as large as a hickory nut in his shirt front, “an' it's &0t & nut and bolt on it dat's fastened be- tween me shoulder volunteered the man who had won fame by saying that he had jumped from the Brooklyn bridge, when he found & few of Chicago's ablest plckpockets following him about. Then tos, there was Brooklyn Jimmy Carroll, who had played a cruel joke on Mr. Brodie on the way from New York It was & special train containing as cholce an mssortment of sports as ever left New York, and Brodie, who was reared on the Bowery and could not stand water after jumping into it, had brought along a few cases of champagne with which to slake his thirst en route. It was a blistering morning when the special pulled out of Cleveland, and Brodle was among the OCEAN STEAMERS. Eer. 'fi“&"’%‘?’: nT 8 18 ‘l ) ineludl .ag‘omou. - u- m\ln‘n‘i tnhg Bty Hew'y W B Boor 158 ‘Nnmm CENTURY FMHER One Dollar a Year. missing. At Springfield Carroll received & telegram from Brodie, reading thus: “Please take care of my champagne. “Steve."” Brooklyn Jimmy Carroll. Carrol gathered & few boon companions and the way to Cincinnat! was punctured with bottles: in fact it Is sald that the sevtion bands along the y had the time of their lives dodging the missiles that came hurting from the train as it Thm were gun fighters teo, some of |appearea tn' print. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: them looking the part, but must of them as mild mannered and soft volced as a Sunday school superintendent. One of the latter variety, with a record, was break- fasting In the St. Charles hotel on morn- Ing with the writer as his vis-a-vis. Two sporting writers, one representing a Cin- cinnat! daily and the other a New York newspaper, bustled in, took places at the same table and over there figs and cream discussed the news of the morning. “I see,” sald the Cincinnation, as he smoothed out his newspaper, “that that killer —— has arrived .in town." “Yes," responded the New Yorker, glancing over the top of his paper. “I suppose he'll be starting a private grave- yard of his own here shortly.” They then gently vivisected the gun- fighter in the most approved manner. The writer happened to catch the eye of the stranger across the table and it was emitting danger signals. When breakfast had been finished he was followed from the room by the stranger, who' hat In hand, sald with the politeness of a Chester- fleld: “Beg pardon, but who are your friends?" The writer Intuitively knew that the subject of the “rolling” was before him and not caring to make trouble, hesitated about giving thelr names. “I mean them no harm. show them that they're wrong, stranger. That be'ng the situation and realizing the dramatic possibilities the arrival of the unsuspecting correspondents was awalted in the blg marbie rotunda, which had been the scene of many historic rencontres in antebellum days. Only the day before, four men, two of them prizefighters, had pummelled each other vigorously all over the place and the guartet had finally, in a clinch, rolled down the score of stone steps and out Into the, then open, gutter, which existed in most of the New Orleans streets. & “Mr. v 1 want you to know my friends, Mr. of Cincinnati and Mr. of New York,” went the firm of introduction. The faces of both men paled, but before either cowid speak the stranger began: “I'm sorry you saw fit to speak of me as you did In there a few minutes ago, but I think it's because you don't know the facts. I have killed men, but never except In the performance of my duty as a peace officer and It was a case of kill or be killed. I assure you that I'm not pround of it, and I hope you'll never go after another man till you know the facts.” Remained Warm Friends. Both of the correspondents are long dead, but while they lived they were warm friends and admirers of the man whose acquaintance they made that August morn- ing in the old St. Charles hotel. This is the first time the little incident has ever Space could be taken up almost Indefinitely in descriptions of the I only want to sald the |celebrities that thronged New Orleans for days before the battle. The authorities of Loulsiana were determined that the fight should not be held within its borders and the nelghboring states of Texas and Mis- sissippl were eaually alert. At the outskirts of New Orleans Is was discovered that the tops of the cars were thronged with impecunious sports who were not gojng to be left behind, and the trains were halted while the rangers routed the trespassers. Several shots were fired and hand-to-hand conflicts were numer- ous before the journey was resumed. The heavily laden trains moved slowly and when day dawned the border line of Mississippl had only been reached. Look- ing from the windows of the cars a strange sight was brought to view. Scores of the more daring freebooters who had been dislodged from the car tops the pre- vious night were ¢linging to the hog chains or fron oraces which run the length of the cars. Thelr coat talls were floating in the breeze and they were braving death to see two men pound each other with bare knuckles until one of them could respond no more to the call of “time.” A halt was made at a polnt on the road where a ditch was filled with water. The riders of the hog chains and car trucks scuttled like rats to wash the grime and dust from their eves and faces and one of thelr number, evidently to see 1t his pistol hand had lost its cunning, produced a “gun” and fired a few shots at the “blaze” on a pine tree where it had been scarred for turpentine. It was almost § o'clock when the battle- ground was reached on the Mississippt line not far from the village of Richburg in the pine woods of Charles Rich, after whom the town was called. Rich's saw- mill, closed for the day was in plain view’ from the arena, a rough board four sided affair, with seats rising sharply from the roped in square of ground where the men were to fight. Both the contestants and their seconds were on the ground early and after a few minutes wrangling the various officlals were chosen, and the sun was glving a sample of his powers when the men step- ped into the ring. Bullivan, low browed, and determined looking, was savage as he sat in his corner and looked from be- neath his black brows furtively at Kilrain and his whispering adviser Mitchell, while his attendant were rubbing his arms and legs. Jake Knew What it Was, Kilraln was serious, as betokened the occasion, for it would make the stoutest hearted man that ever trod the squared circle have a few tremors to face such and adversary as Sullivan was that day. Sulllvan's coal black halr was cropped closely with the exception of that por- tion above the brow, which was probably half an inch long. His mustache was gone and his face was that of the typical gladiator. There wasn't a vestage of flesh upon it that didn't belong there. The skin upon his body was milky white and he opened and closed his huge hands, dyed a dark brown by the stain put upon them to toughen them, as though eager to get to work. “Kilrain, who was a trifle taller and not quite so sturdily built as his dread rival, was trained to the minute. Mitchell, who fought Sullivan twice and who was one of the greatest masters In the art of condl- tion, had been sure of that. Now while walting the call of time, With his arm around Kilrain's shoulder, he poured out a volume of injunctions on how to lay the champion low. Like Sullivan, Kilrain was clean shaven and his hair was closely cut. The scene when John Fitzpatrick, the mayor of New Orleans, who acted as referee, called the men to the center of the ring will never be forgotten by those who were present. The contestants and their seconds formed a Maltese cross, clasping each other's hands for a brief mo- ment, an¢ & the call of “time" the sec onds ran to thelr respective quarters and the gladlators faced each other with hands in position. Not a Match for John. There never lived a man who could stand toe to toe with Sullivan and exchange blow for blow and Kilrain knew this, Mitchell knew it, too, and he had schooled his protege to be wary of the sledgeham- mer tactics’with which Sulltvan had con- quered the world. An expert at wrestling, he was urged to try for a fall whenever the occasion afforded itself, and it was therefore no surprise after one or two trifling exchanges to see Kilraln duck under Sullivan’s guard, selse him about the walst and come crashing to the earth with his elbow full in Sullivan’s stomach. The fall brought & storm of cheers from the Kilrain camp. Sullivan was Dauseatea N NOVEMBER 28, 1909. by the impact of the fall, but in a moment he was after Kilrain like a lion, and for the balance of the battle, which for se- verity has had few parallels, he was con- stantly on the offensive. His tremendous blows to the body, whether delivered at long range or in the clinches when back and kidneys wers pummelled, sounded liko the assaults of a cooper on & barrel. Kil- rain fought vallantly, but nothing could withstand Sullivan's bull-like rushes, time after time he was hurled to the earth. Mitchell never for a moment was riled. He taunted Sullivan, calling to Kilrain, “Go at him, Jake. He cawn't fight. You've got him, lad" Sullivan was in- furiated and he hurled deflance at Miteh- ell, saying that when he finished Kilrain he would lick him (Mitchell) in the same ring. Sulllvan, always the idol of the sporting element, won the admiration of all at the ringside by his falr tactics in this battle, Kilrain spiked the big fellow severely In one of the clinches. The blg champion let it pass, but when the thing occurred a sec- ond time and the blood welled through the holes In his shoe as he stepped forward to deliver a blow his only remark in remon- strance was: Crowd Goes Wild. “Don't do that. Fight like a man, Jake." The crowd cheered itself hoarse and there was no more spiking or anything that sa- vored: of unfairness. The heat became intolerable as the sun mounted the heavens. The tall pines af- forded very little shade and it is a matter of record that the mercury registered 107 when the battle was at its height. The bodles of both men, burnt by the sun, were torn where the knuckles ploughed furrows in glancing blows, and the suffer- ing of the contestants must have been ex- treine. The tortures of the spectators were not imaginary, either, for the majorily of them had had no food since the previous evening and there whs not a drop of water to be had for love or money. Then, too, there was the brolling heat, and all wished for an early termination of the fight and a quick trip back to town. Kilraln was a pitiable spectacle at the end of the fifty-sixth round, and time atter time he dropped to the earth to save punishment.. Under a strict Interpretation |of London prize ring rules this would have lost him the battle, but the referee, who had the confidence of everybody and who stood 0 high in the estimation of his fel- low townsmen that they had elected him mayor, was not thoroughly posted on this point, and the men fought on. Mitchell was a madman and it was only after the repeated urgings of his friends who did not want to see a game man cut into ribbons that the Englishman con- sented to throw up the sponge, and it was almost noon when Kilrain was carried to his corner for the last time. Sullivan standing in the center of the ring, his face bruised and swollen, shoyted to Mitchell to “come on and get what's coming to you,” but the Englishman was already on his way to the train with the crowd which broke and ran thoroughly sated with blood for the nonce. In New Orleans that evening, when clean clothing had been donned after refreshing baths, Sulllvan was toasted in magnums as the greatest fighter the world had ever seen. Kilrain was praised for his game- ness and while the glasses were brimming he was tossing in pain under the care of a physician as the result of the terrific beating he had received. It was days be- fore he could leave his bed to travel'to his home in the north. Sullivan's share of the spolls lasted only a few months, and now Jim Jeffries and a colored maf. Jack Johnson, are to fight forty-five rounds with five ounce gloves for something less than a million.' No wonder the old timers smile with scorn, Counterfeit Dollars buy trouble, but a genuine quarters buys Dr. King’s New Life Pills; for constipation, malarla and jaundice. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. and | | cide on FORTUNE IN THE BIG FIGHT| Jeffries and Johnson May Get a| $100,000 Purse. LARGEST CASH PRIZE ON ‘RECOBD‘ | Battle Involves Enormous Amount in Pleture Privileges, deville Eugagements and Count- leas Wagers. How much money will volved by the proposed Jeffries-Johnson | heavywelght championship fight? Next | Wednesday the pugilists will probably de-| the amount of the purse and ac- cording to present Indications $100,00 will not be far out of the w California, which will doubtiess be the scene of the mill, will be represented at the opening of bids by these promoters: Coffroth of Colma, Gleason of Ocean View, Hester of the 'Frisco Mission Athletic club, Graney of 'Frisco and MeCarey of Nand Junction, near Los Angeles. All of these men have stated a willing- ness to bid and as they have unilimited financial backing, according to their own statements, they say the sky will be the limit. Hester has already offered $75,000, but it is generally understood that he can- not recelve a permit for more than twenty rounds. McCarey, who can pull off “forty- five rounds or more” at his arena, is said to be ready to hang up a purse of at least $76,00 and will go higher if necessary. Personality of Promoters. be directly in-| Graney, who has the political backing of John Herget, who was a well known pugi- list fighting under the name of “Young Mitchell” many years ago, has come east prepared to pull of what is practically a finish contest within the city limits of San Francisco and says he will not stop at the $100,000 mark. Gleason, who has secured an option on property at Ocean View, just out- side the city line, feels confident that the new arena he will bulld can accommodate enough persons to swell the receipts to nearly $200,00 and will therefore hang up either a purse or a percentage which he says will be far in excess of any other proposition, Coffroth, who is widely known as the man who managed the Johnson-Ketchel, Jeffries-Ruhlin, Ketchel-Papke, ~Nelson- Hyland and other big ring batties and who can pull off the big fight at Colma without a hitch, appeared to have things all his own way untll Gleason and McCarey de- cided to do some bidding. Coffroth admits that he will have to bid much more-than he first expected, but that he will make a bold attempt to land the match there seems to be no doubt. All of the California offers will be legiti- mate and will therefore command due con- sideration. An offer of $75,000 from Hugh D. Melntosh, while strictly on the level, will probably be sidetracked as he wants the men to meet either in England or Aus- tralia. Other promoters and would-be pro- moters have made alleged offers ranging all the way from §75,000 to $140,000 witn France, Alaska, Idaho, Colorado, Oklahoma Louistana, Kentucky, Texas, Connecticut, Montana, Nevada, Washington and Geor- gla as prospective battlegrounds, but barr. ing France and Nevada nobody belleves that the fight could take place in any of these places without interference from'the authorities. Californin’s Conditions, In California there is no law against prize fighting, but there are certain restrictions within the city limits of Los Ahgeles. Ten round bouts with no decisions are permitted while in San Francisco twenty-round bouts | gw can be held with referees rendering ver- dicts. the cities the number of rounds must be stipulated, but there is no limit in this re- spect 8o that “forty-five rounds” or ‘“one s § hundred rounds” fights may be held ered California. will get the fight. no doubt, and the men will battle for $100,000 In the shape of a purse or a large percentage of the gross receipts, while a side bet of $,000 or $10,000 may hinge on the result A most important item in connection with | the mill is the money moving pletures. bett-Fitssiminons fight t 1897 were shown for three years all the country and netted more than $250,00, but it is estimated that because of the In creased interest in pugllism the reproduc Jettries-Johnson twice Jeftries and Johnson will two-thirds ot it 1s ®ald, and the promoter who | handies the mill will get the rest. In staging the fight the successful numerous privileges Programs, restaurant and bar privileges, cigars photographs and other provide a pretty fair bunch of coin, which | in addition to the sale of tickets may pro- | Johnson six-round bout vide a profit, and there are more than 20,00 spectators, out that the lowest price of admission can- jnot be less than $3. tom figure It Is estimated that In order to secure the full amount of the purse there would have to be 10,000 seats at $3, $30,000; $20,000; 2000 seats at $10, $20,000, and 2,000 seats at $15, $30,000. der to make the fight a source of profit, therefore, some of those prices would have to be raised, stance netting $200,000. Yet that there will be such a demand for seats that the successful promoter can fix any prices he may see fit. will tion | amount Eross receipts. divide at | money, moter let on fons, 4,000 seats at $5, Promoter officlal Corbett-McCoy fight Garden biggest gate, even about thought that $75,000 was box offices, It Is stated semi-officially that $57,00 was the real this affair, field, Nev, In other parts of the state outside of | gw P of the to more th least will have the side. but a dou draw more m The it Y which constitute So all pletur an 'With t ubling oney to be made at © up things coneld trom the es of the Cor- in over arson C aftair that sum will in the ploture pro- to advertising, cush- things will for not 1t hat as a bot- In or- in each in- it 1s expected In short, the fight than any glove contest in the history of the ring. other Some Former Gate Receipts. last MelIntosh tigures. is supposed but that While ‘When Johnson whipped Burns tralia winter for a $35,000 purse which Burns recelved $30,000, gross recelpts exceeded $100,000, although never gave out Next to this affalr, in to there 1t amount. the largest purse ever fought for in this country was $69,715, the result of the first Gans-Nelson -battle at Gold- Jeffries and Sharkey fought for $67.000 atl Coney Island, while Jeff and Fitzsimmons mixed it up for $83,000 at the rame place. Corbett and Jeffries drew $62,- 340 in 'Frisco, a record for the Earthquake City, taken in Aus- of it 1s said the the the Madison Square hav is some doubt e drawn the 1s generally in at the Aside trom where other fights have drawn big money, as follows: Nelson-Britt (196) Gans-Britt ... Britt-Young Corbett Jeffries-Fitzsimmons Jeffri Britt- | Burns-s: Johnson- O'Brien-Fitzsimmons . Corbett-Nelson (1904) . Corbett-Nelson (1906) . Ruhlin .. Nelson (1904) tires <etchel $18,311 36,000 92,266 31,800 80,487 26,90 1700 is pointed finish | Britt-White apke-Ketchel rien-Kaufman Nell-Tenny Nell-Hyland Johnson-Hart In New York under the Horton law Cors bett and Sharkey drew $8000 at the Lenox Athletic olub Fitizsimons and Rublin fought for #5000 In Madison Square | Garden. Sharkey and Ruhlin proved & magnet for $40,000 at Coney Island, while Sharkey and McCoy drew $37,600 at the Lenox Athletio club, The Jeffries-Corbett | battle at the island netted $35,00 and the McGovern-Erne bout in the garden proe duced $32,00. SharKey and Fitzismons at- tracted §2,000. McGovern and Dixon got $24000 and Choynski and McCoy split up $20,000, Gans and Herman battled for $50,706 |at Tonopah, Nev.,, and when Nelson and | McGovern hooked up for six rounds in Philadelphia there was almost $25,000 in the housa Kotchol and O'Brien drew $20,000 for ten rounds in this city last | winter and about the mame amount for | six rounds in Philadelphia. The O'Brien- in Quakerville he purse is $100,00 netted about $17,00 and the Driscoll-Attell accommodations ten-round bout here drew $18,000 Corbett and Fitzsimmons, together with | the late Dan A. Stuart, who managed | their fight at Carson City, cut up $22,000 after all expenses had been paid.’ The Corbett-Sulllvan fight at New Orleans in 1892 was for & $25,000 purse and a $10,000 side bet, which was considered big money in those days. Jetfries and Johnson therefore will fight for a record breaking money prize. It is also a sure thing that several millions of doliard will change hands on the result. Since the fight was first broached Jeffries has made nearly §75,000 out of vadueville engagements, while Johnson has picked up $30,000 In the same way, in addition to about $30,000 accruing from his victories over Kaufman and Ketchel, and a bunch of coln from the Johnson-Ketchel plotures The winner of the coming mill will have a chance to clean up an enormous sum of money. It Is safe to say that he can draw down a $2,000 a week for an uniimited en gagement on the stage, while the loset will also be in a position to pick up some soft money with which to soothe his i jured feelings. Anson Not for Murphy. It is scarcely probable that either Johw Montgomery Ward or old Pop Anson will allow himeelf to be used as Murphy's tool to beat President Heydler. It there. really were a crying demand and cause for the removal of the National league head, then either of the veterans mentioned would be highly acceptable to the game for the place. But the simple fact that Heydler could not be wheedled about to sult the president of the Cubs does not constitute a popular demand, nor cause. Ward and Anson, therefore, men who have given | 50 much of their brain and brawn to the | upbullding of a clean, strong game, cannot | be thought of as stooping to the level to | which they would have to descend to yleld to Murphy's insistent appeal. UNION PACIFIC The National Corn Exposition Omabha, Neb., December 6 to 18, 1909 Will Interest You Be sure to see the Union Pacific Exhibit of products raised in Oolorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington California and Old Mexico. 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