THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,
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GREEN LIKE GLASS.
HONG KONG BOWLERS LOSE AGAIN,
THIRD SHANGHAI MATCH.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
The Hong Kong Interport bowl- ers suffered their second defeat here to-day, losing to the Yangtsze-" poo Bowls Club by 15 shots. The green was like glass. Details:-
Hong Kong.
Grimmitt
Yangtszepoa.
HOME SOCCER..
RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S MATCHES.
CHELSEA WIN.
London, Yesterday. Division. I. Liverpool 1, Sheffield U. 2. Portsmouth 1, Manchester C. 0. Division II.
. Bristol C. 1, Stoke C. 1; Chelsea 8; Bradford 1. Notts. F. 0, Clapton O. 0. Reading 0, Preston N.E. 0.
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Jim Corbett is another ex-cham- plon who is well fixed. Tim has kept busy in vaudeville for so many years that he has cleared quito a fortune, and, being amart he has kept it. Jim started as a bank clerk and could buy a couple of banks now if he wanted to go back to the old trade. 26 sight
None of the other heavyweight champions over kopt much of the big money they made fghting and sahowing, John L. Sullivan, blew his.na fast as he got it until he became wiser in his old`nge, earn- od enough to live on with a few years of monologues and lectures; and retired to a farm in Massa On demand chusetts. John still had a few thousand dollars when he died. About as much as a champion of to-day would get for two weeks on the stage.
. Division II (8). Bournemouth 2, Norwich C. 0. Brighton 2, Merthyr T. 1. Palace 2, Fulham 1. Exeter. C. 1, Southend U. 2. Swindon T. 0, Plymouth A. 0. Torquay 2, Gillingham 1. Watford 4, Coventry 2. Division III (N). Hartlepools 2, Darlington 0. Wrexham 8, Tranmere 1.
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"FITZ" DIED IN POVERTY. Wire Bob Fitzimmons, the greatest On demand fighter of them all, world's middle- weight, heavy-weight, and light-Wire heavy-weight champion, in turn, On demand had about a hundred thousand dol- lars at one time but lost it through playing the stock market on tips from his friends.” Bob made
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about enough to live on in later. Bucharest fights and vaudeville engagements, and died poor after skating along the edge of actual poverty in hist Inter years.
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Tom Heeney doesn't depend on any faney. footwork in his bouts, but he didn't fall to impress the
technique. He is here shown boxing with Jay Lawless, of Harrison, NJ. experts by his "boring in one of his sparring partnera at his Fairhaven camp.
DOG RACING.
CHINESE AGITATION IN SHANGHAI
COUNCIL POWERLESS.
Shanghai, Yesterday. The Municipal Council has issued
a statement about greyhound rac- ing, in which matter there has been
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somo
without
HOW BOXING CHAMPIONS HAVE FARED.
Tommy Burns made a fair stake [By Robert Edgren.) as champlon. Big money, for those days when he demanded and got Jess Willard, former heavy 80,000 dollars for fighting Jack weight champion, has just made Johnson in Australia. Burns went two sales of Hollywood business into business in Calgary, Ontaríó, lots that he bought after the Firpo and after various financial ven- fight, clearing a profit of 218,000 tures in this country and England
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Jack Johnson says lawyers got
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being British) could make a ruling The first two years his hotel lost dollars paid in the ring before the had a fur coat and a few dollars The last two heavyweight cham Electrical Supplies.
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much agitation against gambling, dollars. Jess has done well. since went back to the "ight game" ag/thing they couldn't take away from Glendale, led by Chinese public bodies such he got out of the oil game and manager of a not particularly suc as the Chamber of Commerce.
into real estate. They took him cessful Belgian heavyweight.
-HOW THEY ARE NOW. The statement declares that the for about all he had, in oll, drove
John L. Sullivan, when he died, Jack Dempsey is no less than a Council is powerless to stop grey him back to fighting again, and hound racing in the Settlement as
Jess saved his pay for the Johnson his money. Probably he had a had approximately 6,000 dollars millionaire, When he was the long as there
doubt and Firpo fights by putting the couple, of hundred thousand when and a mortgaged farm. John's working end of a Kearns-Dempsey whether the pari-mutuel is legal money into something
ha was champion, His legal one boast was that he had earn combination he never put a nickel or illegal, and pending the deci- stantial than a lease on a hole in troubles made him akip out to ed over a million dollars and had into the coal mines, oil fields, race alon of this issue the greyhound the ground.
Europe. He lived in France, Eag-thrown it all away.
tracks, &c., the promoters of which Dentist. tried to use his name. All his clubs are carrying "on
Jim Corbett, sixty-two years of land, and finally Spain, where he licences from the Couricll. The Jack Dempsey is reported to have played a bass fiddle in a restaurage and one of the youngest "old earnings went into good bonds and
sold his Los Angeles hotel for ant. Ife made a little money fight- men in the country, is wealthy real estate Council are regarding the licences 650,000 dollars, clearing up a hun- ing but not much, and at last but not furnishing figures to ad Gene Tunney should be in the as in abeyance until such time sedred thousand on the deal. If he headed back toward the States, vertise it.
millionaire class after the Heeney the British Authorities. (the clubs made that amount he earned it. fought Willard in Cuba for 82,000 When Bob Fitzimmons died he fight. He isn't a spender
plons millionaires! That's enough. so much money he had to go back fight began, and went back to in his pocket. sweeps are now available for me to fighting to pay interest on his Europe because he was still in Jim Jeffries could probably dig to make the hard slugging, hard mortgages and cover expenses legal difficulties in Chicago up 400,000. to chase the wolf from drinking, hard living and fast Then he paid off the mortgages Eventually Johnson came to the door.
spending old-time fighters turn and, with the aid of his brother Mexico, boxed a couple of exhibi- Tommy Burns has his health and over In their graves and groan. Joe, put the hotel on a paying tions, and crossed the line to give enough to run whatever business They made their few thousands
himself up. When he was square he goes Into. Another heavyweight champion, with the law, he was also broke. Jack Johnson has a 6,000 dollar thought of having so much money Jim Jeffries, lost practically every- He made some money in coloured car. That is, he had a 5,000 dol- that they'd be business, men." thing he had a few years ago vaudeville, and recently has tried lars car the last time I saw him, They were sports. There are no Peltzer, the German runner, has through heavy investments In a fighting again although over fifty when he was visiting Gene more "sports" In the fighting been reinstated following a satis couple of bunk companies. Since years of age. He has been stop Tunney's camp near Chiengo last game. Business men all, and per factory explanation-Reuter then Jim has made quite a lot of ped by a couple of husky, gents he September. His name was painted haps the world's average of intol [Peltzer was suspended for fail- money in real estate, and is again would have knocked looping with on the door, and on the spare tyre ligence and progress hasn't lost anyth by, the change. But they ing to participate in a Franco-Ger- on easy street. Just now he is ease in his good days. A pathe cover
estate were an interesting lot those old- man athletic meeting on Sunday doing a vaudeville turn with his tic figure, Johnson still smiles his Willard is a wealthy rea Tast.]
near timers brother, Jack Jeffries, more for the "golden smile. That's the one operator,
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