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thewa or Kid Broad.SUnrkfr's “Cawllflower.”Tom Sharkey will soon undergo n 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 fight trith Gus R util In at Coney Island last spring. Sharkey, who depends upon receiving a hard blow to deliver oae in return, stopped mo3t of the punches during that affair with his head and ear until the latter was crushed nearly Soto ft pulp. It now hangs nt one side and. as one of Tom's friends put It, •looks like one of Mepbistopbeles* fcorns.” Sharkey's hearing is also threatened, and he Is afraid that he will become deaf if he docs not attend to the ear. lie expects that the operation will kevp 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 J-avigne are on tUe lint. Broad bad an operation performed on his about six months ago. lut it was not successful. Sharkey told a reporter that he will spend $£.000 if le can restore the member to the condition it was in before he Jecame a fighter.“I hate to go around with such a mutilated thing on my head/’ lie said. “I think it would improve my looks 100 per cent, don't you? Anvbody who meets me can tell that 1 am a fighter by just gazing at me. I saw a doctor today, aud he says that he will make me a new ear if necessary, and I bet Til be just as pretty as Matty Mat*
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Elyria Republican
Elyria, Ohio, US
Thu, Feb 21, 1901
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