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Thw Miami Now Monday, May 24, 1982 BEAU JACK, from 1 A W'A v-w-' that his knee was healed. The doctors didn't look too closely because everyone that was concerned wanted Beau Jack to fight. At the time, he had pulled more cash customers into Madison Square Garden than any fighter in the game. But it took only four rounds with Janiro for the truth to come out. "I tried to throw a left hook and I missed," said Beau Jack.

"All of a sudden my knee snapped. The knee cap split in two. The thing was broken in five places. My knee up and I tried to push it down and keep fighting. I began hopping around the ring trying to fight on one leg.

The referee stopped the bout. I didn't want to stop. All ray fans had paid to see me fight. They deserved to see a better show." i. I'i- 'I A fighting George I ee, a local favorite, in the semi-feature.

"Richard likes to move, but sometimes you forget what you planned to do," Heau Jack explained. "I told him that this guy was ripe for a couple lelt jabs then an upnercul. I figure we had to beat him decisively to win a decision in his own backyard. Hut in the first round Richard doesn't stand there and jab and uppercut like I told hint, So he comes back between rounds and I told the other guy in the corner, don't take his mouthpiece out, don't give him any water. "Well Richard finally realizes what we're telling him.

He quits running, stands there and gives the guy two quick jabs, then the upper-cut. The fellow went down on the apron, got up and Richard did it again. That time the guy went down for good." With the training and the two jobs, Heau Jack gives adversity very little time to work on him. A half year ago he was going blind with cataracts on both eyes. Two months ago he had an operation that removed two from the right eye.

In another three months he ll have the left eye taken care of. Then it was just a little over two months ago that his house turned down. Among other things, the fire destroyed all his old clippings and pictures and trophies. And yet Beau Jack said he still has his most cherished boxing mementos. "Becoming a big star in boxing wasn't nothing to he said.

"It never was. Now for one reason or another, I don't have a penny left from my fighting days. That's not important anymore, the best thing is all the fine people I met along the way. If it wasn't for the fans that cared about me, I wouldn't be getting the honor that I am. The way 1 look at it, I'm a lot better off today than when I first started." ou.4.-.

1 i4 i tion into the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame. Although he was taken into the Boxing Hall of Fame 10 years ago, Beau Jack is yet to be honored by the legendary arena where he became a favorite son. He fought In Madison Square Garden 27 times from 1941 to 1949, including 21 main events where he drew 355,092 people and a gross gate of $1,578,000. And that doesn't count his wartime fight with Hot Montgomery in August of 1944. For that fight, a fan had to buy a War Bond to get in.

The bout' grossed $36 million. And so on June 2, Beau Jack will be inducted into the Garden's Hall of Fame along with nine other men. By the time the New Yorker had finished reading the piece, the shoe-shine was done. As Beau Jack knelt down on the floor to help the man slip on the his shoes, the fellow's mood seemed to change. He was a bit uneasy.

And as Beau Jack labored to lace and tie the man's shoes, the fellow fumbled with his money, folding a few dollar bills together and pressing them into Beau Jack's hand. He seemed embarrassed to have his onetime idol at his leet. He thanked Beau Jack and departed quickly. Beau Jack smiled as he watched the man leave. He sensed the guy's mood, but it didn't ruffle him.

"I've heard a lot of people say, 'A boxing champ shinin' they can't seem to take it. I just say I'm here and if you got any shoes, I'll shine 'em. The days of being a star are over. The money's gone. I'm just glad I'm healthy and able to work, I'm proud that I'm not afraid to work." And work he does, 16 hours a day, five days a week.

He takes an early morning bus from his Northwest Miami home to the Beach and works eight hours shining shoes in the barbershop. Then he changes uniforms and heads to the Doral kitchens, where he spends the evening shift washing dishes. Finally, at midnight, he heads back to the bus stop for his ride home. He has followed this regimen since shortly after he retired from the ring in 1955. And because of it, he's been able to help put several of his 15 kids into college.

Beau Jack is an amazing man. His star has faded and yet he shines. He offers remarkable proof of how a once well-paid, athletic hero can be forced to return to humble surroundings without having that sour him on life. 4 Beau Jack has not left the fight game. And he still approaches it with the same unselfishness with which he always did.

On his two off days from Doral each week, he heads to the city boxing gym at Moore Park and spends a good -six to seven hours daily working with the young fighters. He does not get paid. Around the gym he is known as a task master. "I tell the boys if you want to get in the limelight and have people love you and come and see you and talk about you, you've got to give them, action," he said. "You got to give them everything you got and that means staying away from what's bad for you.

especially drugs. I want to keep the boys out of trouble and let them enjoy boxing like I did. I don't let 'em have an easy ticket around me." Such was the case Saturday afternoon at the pro fights in the National Guard Armory. Beau Jack had Richard Brown, a young fighter he trains from Broward Countv, ODnnnnnnnnnDnnannnnnnea AVOIDS TRANSMISSION Et TMilliHWvi -MtvI PROBLEMS SFRviur. qd pi npini nvro is vcadc 31 The Miami News WILLIAM SNYDER Beau Jack in his shoe-shine shop at the Doral Hotel: "The days of being a star are A -r" 'unnj nr in TRANSMISSION T0WIU6 i unn WITH THIS AD! ri OPEN MON-SAT.

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"Usually they couldn't find me. I was always at home. The biggest thing I liked was going to see shoot-em-up cowboy pictures at the movies." There was no pretentiousness involved when he began his fight career. Managed by Bowman Milli-gan, the steward at Augusta National, he moved to Springfield, with his new mentor who had a job running the Longmeadow C.C. there.

Beau Jack began shining shoes at the course during the day and fighting at night in nearby Ho-lyoke. "Something like 50 members from Augusta had chipped in some money to sponsor me," said Beau Jack. "When I finally started making some money I tried to pay them back but they wouldn't take it. I was someone they had seen come up the hard way, they were proud of me." In the ring, Beau Jack's spirit was just as indomitable. That was never more evident than in his 1947 fight with Tony Janiro.

Three months earlier he had broken his kneecap, but as the Janiro fight approached he did a tap dance to convince the two doctors of the New York State Athletoc Commission 51 I gotten a hold of it, another guy jumped up and snatched it. I had to blast him a good one to get it back." Beau Jack learned to take care of himself and at the same time got plenty of help from his grandmother. "She taught me how I should live after I became a man," he said. "She died when she was 112. When she was on her deathbed she called me in and I promised her I'd never smoke or drink, that I'd always work hard, try to do right and get along with all folks.

"And I've kept that promise. I've never drank liquor or smoked and at times it's been hard, especially when I've been invited to a friend's house for a party. I say give me milk or a Coca-Cola and sometimes they get a little put out. 1 say that's the way it lias to be when you're living up to a promise like 1 made." Beau Jack carried that personal standard into the boxing ring with him and even under the most trying circumstances, refused to bend. "There was a certain lightweight champ, and 1 won't mention his name because he's dead now and can't defend himself, but he really tested me once when we fought.

He kept calling me a name, a racial name. I said that name don't bother me, I've heard that all my life. Then he spit in my face four times. "I didn't do anything, but it was getting to me. so my trainer said, Enough of this, drop the bomb on him and let's go That's all he told me, so the next round I went out and waited for the chapce.

Pretty soon the guy whistles a right straight past my jaw. That was my opening. I dug a left hook into his side and three ribs popped. As he was on his way down I had one mure chance to nail him, but I backed away. The crowd realized it and cheered me for it.

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His grandmother gave him a pet name right off. He was born Sidney Walker, but she changed it to Beau Jack. "When I was just a little one, I used to follow her around and swat at her apron strings," said Jack. "She'd stop and let me have my fun and then she'd say, 'My Beau Jack is gonna be a boxer She always seemed to know what was in store. "I didn't have a chance to go to much school.

We lived on the farm and it seems like I was always hoeing or picking cotton. Then I'd grab my shoe-shine box and walk into town. I'd shine shoes around there and pretty soon I got to working at Augusta National golf course." It was there that Beau Jack got his first taste of fighting in the ring. "We had what you called Battle Royales," he said. "It was a show for the golfers.

They'd put five of us in the ring and blindfold us all. Then we'd start swinging. When only two fellows were left standing, thev had to fight a four-round fight. "Well when vou'd start out blind- The fighter in 1942 folded you couldn't tell when you were going to get hit. I used to stay-real low.

The first time I did it. the only two guys that were left at the end was my brother John Henry and me. I hit him in the stomach with a left hook in the second round and knocked him out. Afterwards he was so mad he wanted to fight me because I had won. I told our grandmother and she forbid him to fight any more.

After that I was the only one allowed to box. "After the Battle Royale the golfers would throw money into the ring. We'd pick it up as fast as we could. Augusta was Mr. Bobby Jones place and he called me ov er after 1 won once and held out a crisp $100 bill.

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