Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-16
FISTIC PHILOSOPHY.
Talk with a Man who Can Whip
Amy Other Man In America.

Chicago Special to Cincinnati Commercial
"Do l think Paddy Ryan a game
man?" said Mr. John L. Sullivan, as he
stood among fifty of the fancy, in
Guiding Billy Madden, Pete Mccoy and
Paison Dawes, in Mike McDonald's
store this afternoon. "Of course | do.
No man ever yet took off his shirt to
fight in a ring unless he was game
man, for he knows very we'll what he is
going to get. ."
Some OF the newspapers said that
Ryan looked terroT-stricken as soon as
he laid eyes on you. Is that true?'
Not at all. Ryan did very we'll until
l struck him once or twice, and after
that he was dazad-I might say about
half crazy"
as it true there was not a body blow
struck during the whole ight?"
"Yes, that is fact; there wasn't
one"
"Do you think Ryan's nose is broken?'
Il do not; it was that blow in the
nose that split his lip, and knocked him
down, but | don't think it broke his
nose"
Some of the newspapers represent
that Ryan was whipped by being
knocked out of his senses until after
time was called by your last blow, and
that blow was delivered on the neck; is
that true?"
''No; that is a mistake. On the last
round l fought him down, and he fell in
a heap from a succession of blows on his
head, not from any particular one. His
strength was overcome and exhausted. "
'How did you feel when Ryan struck
you that blow on the left eyer"
He didn't strike me there with his
fist; that black eye came from his falling
toward me from weakness, and striking
me with his head; in fact, he struck me
no blows on my face. His blows all fell
on the back of my head, which was
much better for me.
''Did you part on good terms2'
ooh, yes; we shook hands pleasantly
at parting"
"Are you thinking of another match
yet2'
mo, not yet / don't mean to be a
prize fighter more than year or two
more"
DO you think a man is apt to get
killed in the ring?"
mo; do not. think whenever men
are killed in the prize ring it is in conse-
quence of their having something the
matter with them, like heart disease"
Have you scruples of conscience
about f1ghting?"
81 have not. never fight a man to
kill him-I fight him only to lick him."
Doesn't it generate great feeling Of
hatred7"
Not at all. Sometimes, when it is
in dispute which is the better man, bad
feeling springs up, but there is no bad
feeling in fight, or after it..
Billy Madden is considerably proud of
his protege, and he said he would match
Sullivan with gloves against any living
man without gloves. He says specua.
tors are trying to work up another
match but he doesn't know living man
in America, England or Australia,
who would be likely to fight
Sullivan. He says Ryan said when
Sullivan first struck him he thought
telegraph pole had been showed
against him endwise. No one would
ever guess, from his appearance, that
he had been through mill" within a
week. He is slightly yellow under the
left eye, and there is a speck of blood
shot in the eye, and there is a small cash
on the first knuckle Of the left hand,
, which came in contact with one of Ry-
ans teeth, but with those exceptions he
appears to be in the flower of health and
| spirits