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Nomadic Fighter of Earlier DaysLocates Many Old-Time Boxersv . tty ' dock i sent to-Ainerica by the late Jam Mace.International News Sports Editor. ! to flgiu John L. Sullivan. He is farm-NKW YORK, Nov. 5.—John (Jack) j *ng aucl meeting along nicely. Ed. Grace, the chronic globe trotter, has ( Smith, better known as Denver Ed., done the heel and roe in and out. orJRhd his brother paddy are in business more ports than any otbe-r boxer in J to Everett, Wash. Jimmy Murray is captivity, and his wanderings have j living in Panama, and Eddie Hanlonkept him well posted regarding the whereabouts of most, ot the old-timers who were earning their three squares per when, Jack won his cakes by mitt-pushing. :Grace reecntly unbuttoned iiis lower max'll iary io the extent of digging up and locating a host of the knuckleduster of other days for an imiuisi-tivc scribe, aud it is aUogethcr probable that tho vctciau boxing Cans of (lie country wil be glad to bear of the whereabouts of many of the old hoys.George Gardner is now in Chicago dispensing- smokes, said Grace. “Oscar Gardner is back in Minneapolis I holding down a political job; Billy i Murphy is in Auckland, New* Zealand. I working as a tailor; Australian Jira-I my Ryan is in the saloon business in (Baltimore; Mysterious Billy Smith , and Tommy TriLcy are in Portland. Ore.. and Jimmy Gardner has a thirst parlor in Lowell, Mass.My old friend. Kid McCoy, whom I fought first in Cleveland and later in South Africa, is a movie actor in. L03 Angeles; Mike (Twin) Sullivan is working for his father in Boston, and Jack (Twin) is a boxing instructor in the army. Honey Mellody is eaiployed in the navy yard at Charleston'll, Mass.; Dan Crcedon fuis a saloon in Broken Hill. Australia; Stanton Abbot is alive and well in Providence; Jimmy VanMeest is working in a cafe in Superior. Wis., and Shadow Murray js in St. Paul.“Recently I ran into Herbert Siade, | the Maori, in Salt Lnlte City. He wass o. boxing instructor iu the army. Other Pucllic coast boxers now. living in San Francisco are George Green, the original Young Corbett, Al Neil, Alex Grcggiaus, Toby Irwin, Dutch Thurston and Young Mitchell.A Jo* of old boys are making a good living in New York. The last 1 beard of Frank Erne lie was conducting a boxing school. Young Corbett is working on the Stock Exchange; Andy Walsh and Willie Fitzgerald operate cafes in Brooklyn; Matty Matthews is in the theatrical business, and 'Willie Lewis is running a roadhouse in the Bronx. Jack Skeily is now a sporting writer and Jack McAuilffe. is going overseas to do war work. Kid GrlfTo is a boxing instructor, Jack Downey is a clerk in a city court Kid McParcJand has a political job and Kid Broad Is acting in the movies,“Peter Maher is driving a truck in ' New York. Joe Berstein. Dave Sulli- 1 van, Boer Rodei and dozens of lesser' lights may be seen, on the streets of the big city any day. All fn all, the old boys are doing pretty well.”
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Logansport Pharos Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Nov 05, 1918
Page 5
Full Page
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John H.
IL, USA 17 Jun 2018
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