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Sharkey** “Ca nil flower.”Toni Sharkey will soon undergo a painful operation for what is generally known in sporting parlance as a “cauliflower” ear—that is. the ear is twice? its natural size and is still growing. The disfigurement results from his fightwith Gus Kuhlin at Coney Island last spring. Sharkey, who depends upon receiving a hard blow to deliver one in return, stopped most of the punches during that affair with his head and ear until the latter was crushed nearly into a pulp. It now hangs at one side and. as one of Tom’s friends put it. “looks like one of Mephistopheles’ horns.” Sharkey’s hearing is also threatened, and he is afraid that he will become deaf if he does not attend to the ear. He expects that the operation will keep the ear close to the head and not extend to one side, as it does now.Sharkey is not the only pugilist that suffers from a “cauliflower”ear. George Dixon. Matty Matthews, Jimmy Handler, Kid Broad. Young Griffo and Kid Lavigne are on the list. Broad had an operation performed on his about six months ago. but it was not successful. Sharkey told a reporter that he will spend $:.(X0 if he can restore the mein- ; ber to the condition it was in before he became a fighter.“I hate to go around with such a mu- , tilated thing on my head.” he said. “I think it would Improve my looks 100 per cent, don’t you? Anybody who meets me can tell that 1 am a fighter by just gazing at me. 1 saw a doctor today, and lie says that lie will make me a new ear if necessary, and I bet I'll be just its pretty as Matty Matthews or Kid Broad.”
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Monmouth Evening Gazette
Monmouth, Illinois, US
Mon, Feb 04, 1901
Page 2
Full Page
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