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How many real prize fighters possess
gameness? Very few of the latter day
champions have been severely tested
in this respect. The once mighty John
L. Sullivan, who held the heavyweight
championship of America for twelve
years, never received what might be
termed a hard gruelling in any of his
battles. Even in his bare knuckle fight
of seventy-six rounds with Jake Kilrain
at Riehbuig, Miss., he came out of the
ring with few bruises that amounted
! to anything. Sullivan's hardest mill
was probably with Charley Mitchell,
in which John disabled his famous
right, arm in the early stages of the
encounter, the injury being due to a
heavy blow which landed on the Eng
lishman's head. Sullivan has often de
clared that during the battle he suffer
ed more pain in his arm and the cold
rain which beat clown steadily upon
him than from any of the punches he
received from his antagonist. Although
this fight lasted thirty-nine rounds, or
three hours and ten minutes, neither
Sullivan nor Mitchell was seriously in
jured, both being up and doing the
next day.
This was not the ease, however, with
Hcenan and Sayers when they met in
a terrific fight for the world's cham
pionship at Farnborough, England, in
1S60. They fought with bare knuckles
and for forty-four rounds. They pound
ed each other unmercifully until the
British mob at the ringside cut the
ropes and compelled the referee to de
cide the battle a draw. Both pugilists
were fearfully disfigured, both as to
face and body, but each was game to
the core, standing the severe test witl
remarkable fortitude. Sayers fought
for two hours with a broken arm.
Another wonderful exhibition of
pluck, nerve and stamina was that of
Jonathan Smith and James (Austra
lian) Kelley, who took part in the long
est bare knuckle fight under London
rules on record. For six hours and fif
teen minutes they smashed each other
without mercy at Melbourne in 1865.
When the battle ended, both men had
' to be carried from the ring in a help
less condition. Neither could se
much less speak, while both were suf
fering internally.
James J. Corbett has always been
proud of the fact that he never re
ceived a black eye during his career
in tiie ring. For that matter, Kid Mc
Cov, Young Mitchell, Jim Hall, Paddy
Ryan, Dominick McCaffrey, Bob Fitz-
sinmions, Young Griffo, Billy Myer,
Abe Attell and Terry McGovern neith
er had their beauty spoiled nor got
cauliflower ears, the fighter's trade
mark, during their battles.
Jack Dempsey was one of the gamest
of modern pugilists. Many of his tri
umphs were, wholly due to his unlim
ited. .courage. Frequently when-weak
and' exhausted in a contest with a
heavier and more powerful antagonist,
and his backers ready to throw the
sponge, Dempsey continued to fight
uphill with the pluck of a bull dog un
til the other fellow had enough. When
Fitzsimmons hammered poor Dempsey
! all over the ring at New Orleans in
1891, Jack's seconds begged to be al
lowed to throw up the sponge. Even
Fitz said in the middle of a round:
"I don't want to punish you any
more, Jack! Give it up. You haven't
got a. chance!"
But Dempsey did not know the mean
ing of the word "quit" and replied:
"Not on your life! You'll have tc
knock me out before I stop!"
So the lanky Cor,nishman proceeded ,
to put the game fellow to sleep in the
fourteenth round.
When Jack McAuliffe fought Jem
Carney, of England, at Aevere Beach,
near Boston, he was very ill. His back
ers wanted to forfeit, but McAuliffe re
fused to listen to them and insisted
upon taking a chance to save their
money. It was a long gruelling fight
of seventy-five rounds, with odds great
ly against the American champion, who
suffered agony during the four hours
and fifty-eight minutes that he was in
the ring, but he never showed the
slightest inclination to stop. Finally
the New York gang broke into the
ring and -Frank Stevenson declared
the fight a draw. For years afterward
McAuliffe tried to induce Carney to
meet him either here or in England,
but the Britisher, who was one of the
pluckiest fighters that ever lived posi
tively refused all propositions, so that
McAuliffe was unable to prove which
was the master.
Tommy Ryan, the retiring middle
weight champion, was another wonder
ful fighter with a word of gameness.
In 1S91 he took part in one of the hard
est battles in ring history when he
went twenty-six rounds with Danny
Needham at Minneapolis. His remark
able courage was also shown in five
terrific mills with Mysterious Billy
Smith, while the same quality was dis
played when Ryan was unexpectedly
beaten by his pupil, Kid McCoy, at
Maspeth. McCoy made Ryan believe
that the match would be a fake. Ryan
as a result did not train properly while
McCoy got into the ring fit to fight for
his life. Ryan discovered the trick as
soon as he put up his hands, but it
was too late to quit so he took a
fearful beating for eighteen rounds and.
was literally cut into ribbons. It was
because of a great loss of blood and
complete exhaustion that Ryan sank
helplessly to the floor, one of the worst
butchered pugilists ever seen in a
ring.
It was the phenomenal grit of George
(Kid) Eavigne that enabled him to beat
the Giant Killer, Walcott, in the most
sensational ring battle on record. Thev
met at Maspeth in a fifteen round bout,
with the condition that Walcott had to
weigh 133 pounds ringside and also had
to knock Lavigne out to win. It was a
wicked fight from the start and Ea
vigne took such a lacing in the first
eight rounds that his left ear was hang
ing by a thread. He had a broken
nose and was actually bathed in blood.
Many short haired experts were so
shocked that thrfy wanted the referee
to stop the slaughter, but Lavigne soon
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showed that he was full of gameness,
for he rallied later en and administer
ed such a beating that Walectt groggy
and Heeding, wanted to quit in the
fifteenth round and would have done
so had it not been for the threats from
his managed, Tom O'Rourke. La
vigne's gameness won a barrel of mon
ey for those who had nerve enough to
bet against Old Black Joe.
Of all the men who have figured
conspicuously in the ring not one ever
possessed more courage and endurance
than John Morrissey. When a very
young man Morrissey came down from
his home in Troy one day and visited
a saloon on Centre street where Col.
Rynders, Dutch Charley and other
rough and tumble fighters held forth.
Morrissey after a few drinks declared
that he could lick any man in the
crowd. He was "double banked" then
and there but he made such a deter
mined stand against his antagonist that
he was sent to the hospital. Izzy Laz
arus, a competent judge of fighting
men who saw the battle royal declared
there wasn't a man in all New York
who single-handed could whip Morris
sey with a hickory stick in half an
hour.
A few years after this row Morris
?el became a professional pugilist and
was anxious to win the championship
from Tom Hyer, who held the title at
that time. Each man had a desperate
crowd of thugs behind him when they
came together. Among the Hyer gang
was Bill Poole, who enjoyed the repu
tation of being the best rough and
tumble fighter in America. In fact
Poole was the leader of the Hyer mob
and did not overlook a chance to taunt
and sneer at Morrissey. Some time
after the battle Poole and Morrissey
accidentally met in a snorting saloon
and after a heated argument they
agreed to fight it out, rough and tum
ble, at 7 o'clock the next morning on
the dock at the foot of Amos street.
When Morrissey appeared at the scene
of action he was attended by a soli
tary friend, while Poole had about fifty
of his gang along. Morrissey natural
ly objected to their presence, but Poole
said with a sneer:
"Oh, never mind them! They won't
hurt you. I'll be enough."
Then stripping to the belt they faced
each ether to . do battle. . Morrissey
quickley planted L.s left in Poole's
eye. Like a flash Poole stooped and
catching Morrisey by the heels he pull
ed the hitter's legs from under him. j
What followed has always been the
basis for a dispute. Morrissey always
that Poole was well assisted by his
gang, while Poole on the contrtry, in
sisted that nobody but himself did
Morrissey any harm. Whatever really
happened, the fact remains that after
being the under dog in a brutal combat
for twenty minutes, Morrissey said that
lie had had enough and was allowed
to go home, practically beaten to a
pulp. But Poole was also a fit subject
for hospital treatment. This unmanly
contest however proved that both
men were game, but it caused much
ill feeling. Poolo wTas finally murdered
by Dave Baker. Paudeen, Dad Cunning
ham, Ed Turner and others, who had
been run out of California by the vigi
lance committee.
Previous to the killing of Poole, Tom
Hyer had agreed to a battle with Mor
rissey at a well known sporting resort
on the outskirts of New York city, but
on arriving there Hyer offered Morris
sey the choice of pistols. But the lat
ter declined, saying that he wanted to
fight with nature's weapons his fists;
It was a fiasco, all right, and it was
also the cause of an attempt to murder
Hyer by a tough named Turner and
others. Hyer was game enough, how
ever, to clean out the whole mob, even
though he received a slight wound in
the ribs.
Rough and tumble fighting is out of
date in New York. There are very
few good offhand scrappers now as
compared with the days of thirty years
ago. Bill Bradburn, now of Pittsburg,
and formerly of Chicago, is considered
the peer of rough and tumble fighters
in the middle west. Bradburn gaimed
a lasting reputation in the Chicago
stock yards, where he once received
$3,000 to keep the cow punchers in
order. He has indulged in fifty battles
outside of the ring and has never suf
fered defeat, although there have been
times when but for his dead game
make-up he would probably have been
killed.
Brooklyn Jimmy Carroll is said to be
the best roui'.Ii and. tumble artist in
New York city. He is a very peaceful
i citizen imtil arousedwhen he becomes
a most dangerous, opponent. Carroll
in his ling career was hot only a clever
boxer, but also a' finished wrestler,
qualities that serve-vhim in good stead
when rough house tactics become nec
essary. Like his friend Bradburn, Car
roll is known as a dead game one.
Noted New Yorkers of this type who
have passed away cr are out of such
i business were Dick Croker, former
boss of Tammany Hall; Awful Gard
ner, Tim Campbell, Phil Lynch, John
Flood, who fought John L. in the ring;
j Kit Burns, Owncy Geoghegan, Jimmy
Elliot, who was killed by Jere Dunn, in
Chicago; Billy . O'Brien, Jim Glass,
Crow Murray, Phil Clare, Billy Dwy
er. Alec Brown, Liney Tracey, Pat
sey Marley, Joe Cobburn, Arthur Mul
len, Butt Riley, Con Oretn, Dan Kerri
gan, Rockey Moore, Bill Clarke, Reddy,
the Blacksmith,; Harry Lazarus, Bob
Smith and other fearless rough and
tumble fighters'. ",
The pluckiest men in the ring have
not always been the champions. Fiddle
Near', who died in Newark a. couple
of years ago, could stand, the gaff with
anybody, although lie never got into
the championship claps. He could take
or give a beating with as much grace
and ease as a king drinks- a glass of
wine. Night after night, in all sorts
of weather, the game Fiddler practi
cally fought his way homeward. He
usually started about 0 o'clock at Har
ry Hill's eld sporting resort, where he
met two or three in his class or out
of it and after receiving a good punch
ing he would take up a collection some
times to the extent of two or three
dollars. Then he would go to Owney
Geoghegan's boxing resort on the Bow
ery, where he would repeat the per
formance. After that the Fiddler went
to Billy McGlory's dance hall, where In
met all comers. By that time the night
was gone and Neary hustled across to
Brooklyn, having taken part in nearly
a dozen fights. If he happened to be
knocked out in any cf these little tilts
he simply waited until ' he could - get
his bearings again and was then ready
to go cn. He was a happy go lucky
fellow who . cared nothing for hard
knocks. The Fiddler was as game as
any fighting man, even though he did
not battle for a championship. Even
on his death bed the old fellow was
imbued with the same' characteristic,
for as life's candle was about to be
snuffed the Fiddler whispered to the
doctor:
"Tell them I died game!"
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