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Wm once held sway in me mm, scarcity of washed out and burned weight division. a. comparison can out old time puslllsts iounsins
be made that is now without its humorous aspects.
About 1861 Big Mike Mccool was heavyweight champion of Amer- ica - or at least he claimed to be the champion. which was probab- ly true. Mike kept s ssloon in St. Louis. Missouri at that time. and in the rear was a large hall which on Saturday nigh was devoted to the noble art of sell
The;'science" of tistiens as
defence. to show him the 'sights."l-le took a the newcomer up Broadway and
sport was becoming very popular. All the prominent taverns in the big cities had gymnssiuma in their back rooms end there was no
around. who could still do an exe- cutioner's Job on some aspiring greenhorn candidate from the "sticks".
Hoping for the pardon oi read- era for digraseing. I am constrain- ed to recount the following "short" anecdote--"A young lrishmaa in New York City met a pal from home at the boat and ceded
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into several saloons. Alter two or three libstions or strong liquor the subsequent ones appeared , very weak, and the late arrival remark- ed to his triend, "Yez have very fine drinkln' water in this coun- try. Pat." To make the "hu- ing" or the newcomer complete Pat took him to Tom l:srly's lam- ous saloon on Broadway and in- to the back ' room gymnasium among the old-time "pugs." Then Pat made a s-urreptitous retreat. leaving the "green" one "on his own. After about an hour Patis conscience smote him. and he went back to nurse the irlend sl- ter his supposedly sure beating up. Pat lurtively walking on the far side from Early's. The "Green- horn" was standing in the door- way in his shirt sleeves. with his thumbs under his suspenders -feeling and looking very much at home. He spied Pat and called to him. "Arrsh Patsy. come over and have s. dhrink. I am now tind- mg the bar."
In order to attract big crowds to
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these tistians solrees Big Mike would advertise the appearance of a number of then ismous pugil'- ists for the next Saturday night. He knew. and many of his aud- ience knew that none at those lam- nus pugs had any intention oi ap- pesring. some of them were prob- sbly'in Europe and others were undoubtedly in Jail. but neverthe- less Mike announced them as sure participants.
when -the Saturday night crowd hsd gathered Mike would mount the stage and apologize for the non-appearance of his advertised stars. There is still extant a. copy of one or his speeches of apology. as compiled and passed on by John B. Mocormlck. a famous sport writer of over (my years ago, who wrote under the pen name of Mac- on.
"Gentlemen, (clearing his throat) I suppose yes all kem 'ere expectin' to see Joe Coburn-spar wid Jim 'Mace. and to see Barney Aaron out-pint Sam Collyer-Well yez won't. Mac was comin' but he slip-
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r.ed in gettin' on the cars. and dislocated his shoulder. He can't be here. I had I. tilligram teliin' me that his aunt is dead. and av coarse he can't spar under the circumstances. An uncle of Barney Aaron has Just died in London and leit him is fortune and he's sailed to see about it, nn' collyer would- n't come to box nobody ilse."
"But I'll tell yez-yez has seen acme good sport wid local talent. and mesell and Sherman Thurston will do do wind-up and I hope ev- eryone will be pleasant am can- genial”. One look at big Mike and the audience decided it was better to be "pleasant and congenial".
The A.P. (Assoc. Press) this a.m chronicles the death of "Cyclone" Johnny hompson. The writer had the plea ure 0! I. long talk with Johnny in Vancouver in the aut- umn oi 1911--alter he returned from his Australian boxing tour. It was at the Woods Hotel. He beat the great middleweight Billy Paplre. is mid-western lighter who was in Stanley Ketchel's class and had beaten all the good mlddles. Papke was touring Australia at the same time.
Noticing s pretty badly cauli- llowereri ear. I ventured the ob- servation. "You've been boxing quite s bit in your day". "Yes." he said. "my name is Cyclone qohnny Thompson". There were some gray hairs in his head then.
and he said he was thirty-iour years old. I .expressed surprise when I
looked him over. knowing that he
lightweight division 4135 lb. limit). He then weighed 174 lbs. in light suit. I naturally asked him how it all came about. He told me the strangest. story of physical change and development I ever heard. He had gained nne and three quart.- ers inches in height and thirty pounds weight during his trip to Australia-believe it or not-and there was the living evidence. is (sit accompli (as it were). It would be a man's sized problem for the physiologists and dietitians to ac- ccunt for the vagaries of nature in
Johnny's case.
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