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SLAVIN. OF RING
FAME. GOES FRONT
LONDON, July 1.—How Frank
Gotch, champion wrestler, mixed
wrestling with boxing against Frank
Slavin, the veteran ring man, in the
Yukon, is a story just told here for
the first time.
Slavin, who has grown much
grayer than he appeared twenty
years ago as a ring favorite, is now
in England with the latest Canadian
contingent. His little mix-up with
Gotch happened years ago when
Gotch, under the name of Kennedy,
was at Dawson in the Yukon trying
to fix up wrestling matches when
everybody wanted to see prize fights.
Here today Slavin staged the story
with Jack Londonish settings—griz
zled miners looking through blue to
bacco smoke at the ring in Dawson's
main emporium. Gotch. failing in
wrestling matches, agreed to take
Slavin on for a ten-round bout
“In the first two rounds he came
at me strong,” related the soldier
fighter. “I floored him two or three
times. Then, in the third round, he
dodged in and before I knew what
was happening, he gripped me
around the waist and threw me up in
the air.
“I laughed, the refree laughed,
and in fact we all laughed. The
referee said, ‘Do you claim a foul?’
“I said. ‘Well, if I dont I suppose
I’ll never be able to come back into
the ring again,’ so, of course, I got
the decision. But the big American
farmer got more money out of it
than he ever got for his wrestling
bouts up there.”
Slavin just now is delighting Brit
ish sporting writers with his remi
niscences. They flock to the military
camp where Slavin’s regiment is
waiting for the call to France.
In Slavin’s fifty-four years he has
been a pioneer in the Australian
bush and the Klondike, as well as a
leading prize ring favorite in Eng
land, America, Australia and Alaska.
Before he was 18 he had made ?12,
000 in the Australian gold field. He
then came to England and closed five
years of boxing with his defeat of
Peter Jackson. Then he went to
America and drifted into the prize
ring limelight by knocking out Jack
Kilrain in less than a round. San
Francisco was the next sten.
“Those were the days before the
big strike on the Yukon,” said Slavin
today, ‘but I decided to take the trip
there through British Columbia.
When we arrived in Alaska my pard
ner and I staked a claim on the
Fortymile river and I started to
Skagway—600 miles over the ice be.
hind a dog team—to get a guarantee
for the concession. I got the con
cession, and they gave me the offi
cial mail to carry back to the gov
ernment at Yukon. The concession
is still working today—in fact, it ha8
a hydraulic plant capable of handling
15,000 cubic yards a day.”
Slavin related the cutting of the
White Pass trail from the summit of
White Pass to Lake Bennett in 1897
When he returned home his wife had
given him up for dead.
“I made the first map of the White
Pass and the railroad there now does
not leave the route that my party
followed by more than 40 yards at
any point,” said Slavin.
Slavin has been a Canadian justice
of the peace in late years. Slavin’s
only son, Frank Charles Slavin
(named after Charlie Mitchell)
stands 6 feet 1 Vs inches, like the
elder Slavin. He is a sergeant-major
in the Yukon company of the West
ern Scots, and expects to come to Eu
rope to take a hand in the fighting.
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