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Donnelly !s Liked.a. By Akron, Ohio, Critic'I'lie following neat ami interesting wrltc-iip of Johnny Donnelly is from •,:ic trusty lyiwwrlier of Jack Gib-iicrls fiV iiii Akioh, Ov paper of Thura* day:Johnny Donnelly's fisilc career h’amIs a.jolt to the ,610 ironies who preacr.lo fKcfr sons that,perseverance einl plugging fl’-ong wlra In. tho long run. Donnelly's career is a knockout to the ijlii timer who lella the ]ml of today that he must slarl at the bottom and take the Impipfc in order to rise frail) I he ranks: :Johnny illcl nothing of tUc klml. r 1 is carcpr Is' brief. Ho ambled around in I he amateur game a while,, waft forced to turn professional, went cast—anil to. and behold ho was fighting windups hi short order.Remember Johnny Donnelly?Three .years ago and more this same tad used to crawl through hie ropes .at ’fJooilvicli hah and bathe away, Jiiftl for the fun of It. Had a good Job. no family to support, times were good—why should Johnny risk hi a fiK'tdi beauty in ike ring for (i few paltry dollars? ■. Tin: SI limp. * ;Itul there came a' lime when job's wcfcnT lt;tuKe so good nr pleiiUfuj. Johnny sunk with the business sUimi, woke up one:morning to fiiul himself Auf of a Job:-ami the world terrifiejlwith talk bi a panic,. .!. lie tried.to calyh.on with.another 1 oh. but •wuFu'I succdsslul. ‘ M: j j Then .he .was * lured ,,rroin thj* j straight and narrow of amateur box- j Jiig; intotfib professional game with j Its lilthy jucye. * '* ] \- IVoiWcVs,; here gave him a fc\v j in-clSmlnnry scraps but Johnny didn't • IbokjVpHUo.ao good as he did in tliej aifiat'euV k^Vic.; Sooii 'after lie’ droij-l pod cut af si ft lit and the-name of-Johnny. Dcnnchy.was .forgotten here, j -• 1 •’ Sl'Cllt KjUfL ' I |• Two years ago this month Donnelly hopped on a rattler traveling cast, landed’iii Newark, N. J.,-anti took a-long breath.• '.Some* well meaning filouds took him In hand and a week after his ar-j j rival he. was matched with Young I Jack Demi)soy at a Newark club. Hewon easily. Then for the next two*I months he appeared each week ut|| the same club in Newark, and roso id the heights of a main bout fighter.Lot's’jump over the details of Ddu-J nelly's career while away from Akron. I.cl's only recite the-facts. \He fought in Jersey City,' won a fight* and also woo himself a wife there.Then he moved to Uulontown, Pa., and lutri several fight :»l the big clubs iu Philadelphia. He bad two or three managers* among them Dan Morgan, who Vosses Jack Urltton, the welter-weight champion.... ., Fought Good Hoys.Ife had over 30 fights and against: such boys as: Johnny.Unnmuic, Tommy Elm, WI {lie Herinn n, Whi tey Filzgcratd, Phil:'Salvador, Johnny llay, .Roliby Wnrd, Rnilor Joe Kelly, George Fox, Jimmy Duffy and Hymtc cioid. - ‘:His only set hack was from Hymto Gold, with whom he accepted a matcli one afterucion, rode all night on a train and fought the’next clay. Gold scored a technical knockout over Donnelly in .Ihrcp rounds and two weeks later Hymic gave Lew Tondlcr a gront scrap. * *As we’ve said hrtfnro, Johnny is hack home again. . lie’s with Rernie Strapji ami Art Simms. :i pair that sent'Johnny Griffiths through some of bis greatest fighls.Slrupp T.IkcA Him.Slrapp mid Simms are all steamed up about bouncily. They're taking him to Pittsburgh Monday night to hght llay Pryel.During Tho iiiontli of June Ktrapp wants to show Donnelly again In the lighter's old hoiub town. Strapp figures putting him ou with Alex Hart, then give.Donnelly** chance against a iig time lightweight July 4.To Hie above wc’can only add— watch Strap pmul Simms, noinemlier wiiat they did for GrlllUhs and Hilly McCann. It's a long time since cither ncrulc or Art have had a real ring prospect, so you can bet thoy're going to make up for lost time with tho return of Johnny Donnelly.i
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Daily News Standard
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, May 13, 1922
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