ENDS SEASON WITH A DEFEAT.

I concluded the siege of 1901 in old "Jonahville," Milwaukee, tying up with Charley Berry again. We -met the night after I had cleaned up big middleweight Walsh, and I felt as though I was due to close up the final chapter of the reason by licking Berry. He pursued his same old tactics of stalling, holding on in clinches and dancing around the ring, keeping out of
harm's way, and as a result I hardly got a chance to hand over my sleep pills during the fight. I just couldn't shake the hoodoo, and though I was giving him the worst of it whenever I got near him, and at the finish was smothering him with blows, he was awarded the decision on "points." So ended the hardest and unluckiest year of fighting experienced by me during my entire career - 1901.

SYNOPSIS OF TAD'S LIFE.
(BY BAT.)

T. A. Dorgan (the cartoonist, who has several illustrations of my career in this book), known the world over as TAD is a very unique person, indeed. He was born amidst flowers and sunshine. He first saw the light of day in San Francisco, Cal., Sunday, April 29, 1877. He was reared in the same neighborhood as Jimmy Britt, Frankie Neal and Joe Kennedy, which is known as South of Market.

When Tad was still a good sized kid his folks moved over to the Hayes Valley district.Incidentally he was compelled  to move along with his folks.He was still in a neighborhood of such noted mitt pushers as James J. Corbett, Joe Choynski and others of  note, and consequently got interested in sports such asboxing, foot racing and, in fact, every sport known to
the kids.

As a mere stripling he befell an accident to his right arm, rendering that wing paralyzed. He has been compelled to earn a living with his one remaining mitt his left, or south paw which, by the way, is a sure enough ''bread winner."

TAD A 'REAL SCRAPPER

He went through grammar school and graduated at the head of his class. While attending school he was a frequent visitor to the fighters training camps and drew many cartoons of the fighters doing their training stunts. He also got so that he could use his mitts or rather his remaining mitt, and had all the boys of his size buffaloed with his skill as a glove wielder.

Graduating from grammar school he went to the Polytechnic High School, where Miss Van Vleck gave him his first real lessons. After graduating from the Polytechnic High School he secured a job from the San Francisco Bulletin, drawing fashion plates for no salary. After six years of working on that paper he had worked his way up to being a "Sporting Cartoonist," and was receiving the largest salary ever paid a man in that department on that paper. The last year's work was of such rare quality that all the leading papers in the United States were bidding for his services.

ARTHUR BRISBANE LANDS TAD

Arthur Brisbane, one of the cleverest editorial writers, and, without a doubt, the highest salaried newspaper man in the world, sought his services. After out biddingall others he secured Tad's "John Hancock" to an agreement to work as sporting cartoonist of the New York Journal, where he has been dropping them ever since with "one punch." Tad, in my estimation, as a cartoonist, is in a class all by himself.