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OLD-TIME BOXERScrappdrs oflhe Year** Gone Bye Managed© Fit Into Other Vocation*.NEW YORK. Nor. I.—John• 1 ace. tli#* olfonte globe trotter, has none « heel ana toe In and out of more ports an any other boicr in oipuvilif, end * wanderings Mvt kept him well post-l regarding the whereal»ouls of most of he ohMUnrs who were earning their ihree •quanta per when Jack won hi* cakee by Wilt I* pu thin*. .... ^Orii'e rtcvnt y unbuttoned hit lowermaxillary lo the talent of digging up anaHoatint a hou of the knuckit^uiiurt of altar Jays fob an inuuinitivg Scribe. and t l« altogether prohahlt that'the veteran oxtrig fan* of the count ty will he gl«*d o hftr of the whereabouts of many olIto hiha old boya. .___' “Georg# Gardner la now In Chicago penalng amokeg/* aatd Oiuee. .« Ini dnrr la back In Minneapolis holding dowr. a political Job: Billy Murphy Is In Auckland. New Wand. working Mi si it t ■ Auatrallan Jimmy Ityan la In tnasaloon btialnaaa In Baltimore; Mysterious Hilly Smith and Tommy Tracy are In I ortland, Ore , and Jimmy CJurdner has athirst parlor In UeweU, Maag.My od friend. Kid McCoy, whom fought drat in Cleveland and later In outh Africa. Is s movie actor In lxs .ngales. Mike (Twin) BulUven Uworklua r his father In Boaion and Jack (Twin) uliivan la a boxing Instructor In the my. Honey Mellody la employed m he navy yaid at Charlestown. M iss.;1 Dan i'rcedon haa a aaloon In Broken Hi I, Australia; Stanton Abbott Is alive and ..ell in Providence; Jimmy Van lieeat ia • orbing in a cafe in Superior. Wis., and .diadnw Murray is In 8t. Paul.glads, the Maori, in Salt Lake.•*ite* entiy I ran into Herbert Slade, tha Maori, m Hal t\ Hake CUy. He was sent o America by the late Join Maoe to fig**? John U Bui Ivan, lie is farming and got, ng along nk e y. Ed Smith, bettor known na Denver ltd. and hit brother, Paddy. »r# in buslnes* In Everett. Wash. Jimmy ..iurray Is living In Panama, and Eddie Hanlon la a boxing instructor in the army. •Jtkir Pacific coast boxers now living in. an Eranoisco are George Green, tin original Young Corbett, AI Nell. Ale* UnvtflSM, Toby Irwin, Dutch Thurston and Young M tobeli.“A lot of the old boys are making • god living in New York. The ast 1 heard of Prank Erne he was conducting a boxing school. Young Corbett la working on the stork exchange; Andy Walsh andWilUe PI tag era Id operate oaies In Brook-i n, Matty Malthawi is In the theatrical..u*mesa, and* Willie f-ewia is running a roadhouse In the Bronx. Jack Hkeliy u ,w h sporting writer and Jack McAulllte» going overseas to do war work. Kid.liffo ia a boxing Instructor Jack Dow* ney Is a oerk in a city court. Knl Mo-. at tiand haa a poHti« a' I b and Kid ami is act if.g iu the moviea,••Peter Malm is dnwug a ck In New York J«».* H* :i-«*in. Da divan, Boer Hodei and dosegs of leas, lights may be * u on the stiee’a of the tug city anv day. All in a.i. the oid u a « * doingI pretty well,'*«i
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Lincoln Sunday Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Nov 03, 1918
Page 9
Full Page
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John H.
IL, USA 17 Jun 2018
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