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TERRY M GOVERN. TIIE PUGILIST, • TOPS THEM AM, WITH $78.- 4®000 PER ANNUM. \A4JESSIE BARTLETT DAVIS NEXT.THE CONTRALTO GETS $2,000 MORE THAN M’KINLEY*4*T44A budget of Theatrical Gossip Gather- 4 '*d for the Sentinel's Ivovers of Atousement—Some Attractions That Will Be Seen in Sedalia Soon.4-3J44444When Jesse Bartlett Davis, the great i contralto, went into vaudeville last ♦ season, there was h grc*at deal of talk about her big salary, $!,000 a week.I he fact that she was pulling $2,000 a year more rut of the fire than President .McKinley was dwelt upon at some 'length. When it cornea to theatrical salaries, however, Terry McGovern, thepugilist, who is now traveling with theBowery After Dark,” has them allbeaten. President McKinley receives,a salary of $50,000 yearly; Terry the *1Terrible has a contract with Managers ^Sullivan and Harris for a season of 4fifty-two weeks, for whoh period he 4gets $78,000. That's just $28,000 bet-1 4ter, and he doesn’t have to worry about 4re-election, either. The new star is lt;-4 - -»just 21 years old. and is cetainly a world-beater.” both as a ring chara-pon and as a money maker. In fact. McGovern has. up to the present time, made lots more money than Sullivan.! fu Corbett or Fitzsimmons. His last w fight with Frank Erne. netted him su $14,000.. With Pedlar Palmer he got ult; $10,000; with George Dixon. $12,000; with Oscar Gardner, $('.,000; with Tom- ni my White, in Chicago, $7,000; with ia tht same fighter in New York $0,400; ce with Eddie Santry. in Chicago. $8,500; ov with Billy Rotchford, in Chicago. $§.300 “f Terry defeated Erne in seven minutes, re Palmer in two. Dixon in 24, Gardner in eight. Tommy White in 18 in Chicago, st and eight in Now York. Eddie Santry ar |in 15 and Billy Rotchford in 2 minutes cc Just 84 minutes it took him to get rid th |of that entire bunch; and he received a* $72,200 for doing it! He is next sched- iT44uled to meet Tim Hegarty. lightweight mchampion of Australia.
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Sedalia Sunday Morning Sentinel
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Sun, Feb 10, 1901
Page 3
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IL, USA 13 Nov 2016
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