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cwWhen Jesse Bartlett Davis, the great contralto, went into vaudeville last season, there was a great deal of talk about her big salary, $1,000 a week. The fart that she was pulling $2,000 a year more out of the fire than President McKinley was dwelt upon at some length. When it comes to theatrical salaries, however, Terry McGovern, the pugilist, who is now traveling with the “Bowery After Dark,” has them all beaten. President McKinley receives a salary of $00,000 yearly; Terry the Terrible has a contract with Managers Sullivan and Harris for a season of b fifty-two weeks, for whch period he gets $78,000. That’s just $28,000 better, and he. doesn’t have to worry about re-ePection, either. The new “star” is just 21 years old, and is cetainly a “world-beater,” both as a ring cham-pon and as a money maker. In fact, r , McGovern has, up to the present time, made lots more money than Sullivan, Corbett or Fitzsimmons. His last fight with Frank Erne netted him 8 $14,000.. With Pedlar Palmer he got a I $10,000; with George Dixon, $12,000; n ! with Oscar Gardner, $6,000; with Tom-»* my White, in Chicago. $7,000; with jthe same fighter in New York $6,400; d ! with Eddie Santry, in Chicago, $8,500;with Billy Rotchford, in Chicago, $8,300 11 Terry defeated Erne in seven minutes. °* i Palmer in two, Dixon in 24, Gardner in ie; eight, Tommy White in 18 in Chicago, ie! and eight in New York, Eddie Santry lt, in 15 and Billy Rotchford in 2 minutes Just 84 minutes it took him to get rid of that entire bunch; and he received $72,200 for doing it! He is next scheduled to meet Tim Hegarty, lightweight champion of Australia.:e3a-ieie
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Sedalia Weekly Sentinel
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Fri, Feb 15, 1901
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