"The only thing I can do is to fight." The real story of the
biggest little man who ever lived Chicago's World Champion Jimmy
Barry & Captain James Dalton Patrick J. "Reddy" Gallager, and
Arthur Majesty Jimmy Barry came from Chicago's "Little Hell" where
a man fought at least once a week to have a good name. In 1887 at
sixteen Jimmy and his brother Michael were two of seven toughs
arrested for complicity in the assault on a Chicago police officer.
Jimmy, helped by Mike McGurn family and the great lightweight Harry
Gilmore, straightened himself out. Ten years later Jimmy was the
undefeated bantamweight champion of the world. In 1881 Captain
James Dalton was the first Chicago man to meet John L. Sullivan in
the ring. Dalton had a long fighting career, meeting many top
heavyweights of his day. He was a tug boat captain on the Chicago
River and operated two West Side saloons before being killed by a
car in 1932. Barry and Dalton are buried within fifty yards of one
another in Evanston's Calvary Cemetery. Reddy Gallagher was a top
middleweight who met Dempsey in Cleveland and John Herget in San
Francisco. After a successful boxing career Reddy became a
successful businessman, sporting editor for the Denver Post and
died as the wealthiest prize fighter of his day. Five Catholic
bishops are buried with Gallager. Arthur Majesty is virtually
unknown. From Toledo, Ohio he moved to Peoria and then Bloomington,
Illinois. Majesty taught boxing, attended Illinois Wesleyan
University and worked for a Bloomington newspaper. He fought the
great Tommy Warren five times - once before the largest crowd to
date to watch a boxing match in Chicago as the final preliminary
match before Sullivan met the "Irish Lad" Jack Burke. Majesty died
fighting under an assumed name in Nelsonville, Ohio in 1891. The
stories of these men are told here and provide insight into the
history of prizefighting at the end of the nineteenth century.
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