The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1905, Page 7

1t ‘was this n to me to “lay and the price message scheme the rob- exp at y Tug Wilson's Quick Touch and Getaway. down tarted the way, I expe & at Tacor ma Father Never Welghed Over 130. ptor, had Boxer,” for ng a whole matters said 4 Paris end praised as the most per- fect of human shapes. I mention it omly ow what & remarkable thing it is at I should be the of a father who never we ds. velghing I got ncles and side were meaning “The Big o the yardstick t have much of a e are some of the ut upon me during start life, y '3 Boston's Pt er, Boston G! nmer Jack, Spartacus Sullf of the Prize Rin n, Boston's Pride Suliivan the Wonder, Prizefig Grea Caesar, Champlon F he Ring, etc. Pr for the son of a father amaged any scales. How He Tied Up Street System. Several times in my crowded hours I he street car tem of Boston out When I opened my cafe, in that town night the horse cars couldn’t run through Washington street because all p there was & jam of people pack- om wall to wall for a couple of rds on both sides of the cafe. Neither Blaine nor Cleveland ever drew e bigger crowd in that town, and even the Ben Butler crowds looked small com- pared with that push. Sports came from all parts to attend that opening and those who got into the middle of the crowd didn’t get out again for hours. That Ing" was one of the big things In the history of Boston told me I was a house afire for playing eir business and if I'd move away and never come back to Boston, he'd pay my \are as far as'I'd go. But I wasn't to blame-because the streets Were too narrow. Soon after this when a horse car got ou track on Washing- ton street and six or eight men had tried to it it back on the fron, I Hfted it on alone, I sent word to the street railway official that what he needed at the head of his outfit to keep his arks gaing all the time was a Sullivan or two. They've got a Sullivan at the head of the system Refuses = Fortune Rather Than Fight a Nezvo. t Marvin Haft's brother has ely has. It's e been looked for. ng to gain bs negro. I have almost goaded Into meeting the colored brother, byt I took a second think in time. A club in San Francisco hung up a fortune for me to meet Peter Jackson—there was $20,000 in it, and nobedy ever questioned my ability to I was insulted the country to the to stampede me noticed th. end of other in the attempt into that fight, and I was angry enough from one one time to throw principle to the ds and give Jackson his. Another time I almost came to a set-to with , but I am glad to say When T gojout to battle with a man I agree that he is of equal standing. A e 1 of a white man ss to the negro to let between negroes e should be drawn ned nothing by meet- if he had lost to the brother it would have been his Iam g to admit that Hart d a great deal of provocation, but he had as much as I had to meet never every negro to do well and my On to seeing white boxers meet ot based on any petty ite man to meet a 1 doesn’t pull the negro the white man’s level, but rather s the blonde down to the brunette’s. 1 bet that if Hart could start his ca- T over again he’d cut the dark meat his. 2 f the hardest turns at training'T r a fight that never came got ready make a demonstra- p of Dominick Me- ver made it. It is quite McCaftrey was Irain before the b Club of Boston. Kilrain ap- some reason McCaffrey did how up. The head man of the Cribb b—a Mr. Appolionio, I think it was— nounced to the members of the club McCaffrey be allowad the place because of ure to come to the scratch. ose who never heard of this Cribb b of Boston, I may say that it was de up of the b bloods and kid glove ut of Bos Only members were owed to attend its affairs, one black uld bar any candidate for member- . and only men whose people, came r in the first cabin of the Mayflower ly. The fighters, of course, whose s came over in the Cephalonia, were red for their occasions. There was an- r Cribb Club in Boston later on, but at was a different kind of club, and dy could get into its affairs if he had the price at the door. Well, after the failure to meet Kilrain, McCaffrey fought Pete McCoy in the old sor Theater in.Boston. The bout wasn't a decision, and I was fn McCoy's corner and told Dominick what I thought him. He declared that he could not wallop McCoy, who was & breezy cheerful fighter, but he could lick me. added some things—words which, all the world over, mean fight. He Goes After Dominick MecCaffrey. o At that time, only the boldest kind of men used the kind of language on me that McCaffrey did, and as he made his boasts before quite a crowd of folks, I made up my mind to make him eat his words. A match was made and we were to meet in Philadeiphia. I went to Patsey Shepherd of Boston and told him I want- ed him to train ms for the work on the hide of the bold and boastful Dominick. “I'll train you upon one condition,” said Patsey, “and that is that you'll do ab- solutely what I tell you as regards eating and drinking, especially drinking.” I made the promise -and stuck to it. The- training was as stiff as Patsey could make it, and there wasn't any drinking in it at all. When the time came for the battle in Philadelphia I was as fit as a fiddie and Dominick MecCaffrey might well bave felt a little weak around the knees at the prospect that was before him. But to give him credit, I think he was as eager for battle as I was—and I was simply crazy to get him within a comfortable ring and before as large a crowd as he had when he made his orig- inal defl. The night the battle was scheduled for there was 2 mob of sports gathered in little old Philadelphia to see it. If John D. Rockefeller or J. Plerpont Morgan or any other geeser who owns all the money had dumped a cartload of gold In front of me as an inducement to have me call that fight off I'd have given him the Jaugh. There wasn't money enough in the mint to have got me to let Dominicik off, even If he had wanted to duck the meeting, which he didn't, Philadelphin Police Spoil a Good Thing But just as we were about to start the ball agoing, in came a flock of po- lice and they declared the whole thing d app! THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. BEGAN TO WATCH IT; HIS EYES POPPING OUT OF HIS HEAD - off. Say, you might have knocked me down with a feather. All my hard training had gone for nothing, and there was Dominick within arms reach and they.wouldn't let me show him, Of all the thousands who had looked forward to that battle, I was the most disappointed, and T don't know hew much liquor I used in drowning my sor- Tow. Patsey Shepherd wanted me to go back to Boston, but I remained in Philadelphia a couple of w most of this time I wasdn a 2 — = i \\v pt boxing In the East that unless things are made more limber in the States East the whole of the game will be transferred to Nevada and California. Boxing Is a sure thing for at least two years longer in California, and Nevads will come In as a strong claimant for this sport. Out in Nevada there are 30,000 miners in twenty-five miles of country that takes In the richest gold camps in the world, and nearly avery one of them stands ready to pay 38 or 310 a crack for the right kind of boxing shows. When some promoter opens up this part of Nevada to fight- ers, I can see things drift away from the East unless things are changed. Watch the size of the crowd that will see Jimmy Gardner and Honey Mellody at Goldfleld, Nev., within a couple of months. It is a fortunate thing that Californis @id not kill off the heavy-weight con- tests, for if this had happened, this cream of the sport would be driven to the secret places and that would be bad for all hands. The public takes mere stock in one battls by us big fellows than they do In fifty fights by lighter fellows, no matter how clever the .lat- ter may be, and I can’t ses why there F ) is this cranky desire to kill off the | sport by barring the big fellows from i * doing the things nature built them to F= 15 do. Frames like mine wers never in- | | tended for ribbon counters and such. | They were made for athletics and the | Joy of healthy struggle Why dom't | the legislators set out to legisiate the } =ip out of colts and the sap from rum- | | | | | | | ning in the trees? It would be as sen~ sible. Disappearance of a Colored Wonder, There was a colored brother who mysteriously disappeared from a camp I was in some years ago, who, if he had been kept In captivity long enough -to have trained, wodld have put Peter Jackson and all the other chocelate bruisers into the second rate class. I don’t know where he came from. All I knew was that he sald his name was Julius Wilson and he wanted to be a fighter. Some of the fellows with me | tried him out and they told me he surs - had a terrific punch and couldn’t ba hurt with anything softer than a ham- mer. I thought I'd take him in hand as & curiosity and while I was fishing for bass in the pond near by I told him to come and talk it over. He stripped to show me his bulld, and he surely did have the goods. While he was telllag what he could do, a dirch pole which had been used to eateh live bait and which had been thrown into the pond began to rush through the water, stop, stand on end, dive and do the funniest - stunts. The coon began to wateh it, his eyes popping out of his head, and as it made one very swift dive he grab- » bed his overalls and hat and dashed into the woods yelling that the place had “de ha#nts.” % We afterward got the pole with = big bass on the end of the Ilime - Wa found that a small shiner had taken the hook on the iiae and the bass had S taken both when nobody was intending Nother time will do,” was his come- WO ST 0 that eullud baek, without the flutter of an eyelid. and Do miwbed I had a good mind, to pay him the :"::fl;m n his color ciass money, for such a nerve as his ought cause he didn’t wait to find out '= to. be coddled, I haven't used the full was doing. [ never laid eyes om name.of my friend, but the afterward. Yn!:oul:r.km sports may be able to guess it. I send a warning to the lovers of “Continyed Next Sunday.) | | |