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WHERE ARE THE FIGHTERS WHO FOUGHT HERE A FEW YEARS AGOjl What becomes of all the fighters? [ ed his money wisely.What do they do when they quit | Next we have Tommy Burns, a fru-I the ring or when their lighting days gnl soul. Tommy will be a million-are over? Those were the questions alre if he lives. He has the moneywhich came up during a fanning bee maker’s instinct, the other afternoon. “Why,” said an Jim Corbett will never want forold timer. I can't remember a time i anything under the sun as he retains in the past fifteen years when Mil-his ready wit and his native ability.waukee was as flstically dead as it is It is doubtful If Corbett took any of right now. Why only a few years his great money winnings of the gamesago. almost every second fellow you with him for he was always a spend* . met was a pug and where have they er. The same thing goes for Bob Kitz-•all gone? simmons, who was always a thrifty1 Out of the whole bunch of them the sort of a citizen.only man who made any money and Eddie Hanlon has his little saloon to keep it was Charlie Neary. There in San Francisco and friends enough was Joe Precente, Charlie Berry. Jake , to fill it at all times.Marnier George House. Mike Irish.' Jim JefTries lives away up at the Alex Burke, Otto Kestner. Mickey head of easy street. He earned a lotRiley and dozens of others who have ! of money, made a lot more, and lias all dropped out of sight as f the earth a wife who will help him take carehad opened up and swallowed them, of it.•Out of the older bunch Jack Dougher-1 Jack Johnson will never have any*ty and Kid Sayers are about the only thing, no matter how much money he men who still wear the gloves. makes. He is a natural born spendThen there was Ferry Queenan, j thrift, good old scout, but he was always Ketebel has made some money andbroke and probably always will be. , invested some of it, not enough to}None of the fighters except Neary | put him in the Nelson class, however, have ever saved any of the money , Bat Nelson is the boy who has laid 1they made in the ring Now there away his small change,are still a few fighters floating about Jack O’Brien posed for a time as the country posing as Milwaukee pro- one of the wealthy fighters, but bus!-ducts, but they are not the home-; ness reverses in the past five years grown article. j have accounted for most of the Qua-Young Wolgast stands in a good j Jeer’s coin. He has some Philadelphia way to make more money than any real estate.other Milwaukee fighter. Jimmy Tommy Ryan is another man who.Clabby is also a good money maker, need not worry as long as peach trees but in a few years these two will also, bloom. His peach orchard will keen, ibe wiped ofT the map the same as the the wolf interested, rest. But It was ever so; look down j John L. Sullivan left the ring buwt- i the list of big fighters of a few years od,” took several benefits, needed | ago and see how many of them, out- some more benefits and finally went Iside of the few here mentioned, could on the water wagon. He has done buy more than a bean sandwich. well theatrically speaking, and ha*James Edward Britt, the cream puff more money saved up at the present puncher who made an educated left time tnan he ever had at any on*- ihand win him a small fortune. Invest- j time In his life.
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Escanaba Morning Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Sun, Nov 14, 1909
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