Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-06
Eureka Daily Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER G, 1854
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By far the. most interesting speech
heard in this city for many months
saws the New York Sun, was the one de-
livered on Monday evening at the bene'
At rendered to Mr.. Allen, the prize
fighter. by young Mr.. Sullivan OF Bos-
ton. the present champion OF this
country. MIR. Allen was once champion
of England and also Of this country IN
I'll his great strength and undeniabie
skill happened to meet the unapproacha-
bIe science of Mr.. Mace, and never was
Darwin's great principle of the survival
Of the fttest more vigorously presented
for popular realization than in that en-
c~ounter. At the end OF ten rounds, Mr..
Allen. whose gameness never was ques-
Toned. saw such a terrible and inevitable
defeat coming nearer and nearer that ne
finally gave up in despair, Now Mr.
Allen has come again to this country to
regain his lost title of champion, and to
do this he has challenged the possessor
of it. Mr.. sullivan. The two athletes
never mel until Monday night, when, as
Mr.. Allen in ring costume mounted the
stage in the Madison Square Garden
bearing the gloves, those symbols OF
peace which entitle him to carry on his
profession in public, the challenged man
stood up, too, but dressed in the suit OF
clothes which he had just worn from
Boston without attracting more atten'
ton than must always be given to the
figure Of a man which is q miracle OF
symmetrical strength. Mr.. Allen came
to fight with Mr.. Rookie, but Mr.. Sulil-
van came to address the audience. lie
spoke with great directness and with
such surprising facility that n cannot
but think that the accomplished Mr.
Madden, when training him for his COM
bat with Mr.. Ryan, judiciously BALANCED
his physical tuition with a certain amount
of intellectual exercise that might b'
useful to him at some future day. Well
the most interesting thing shown by MIR
S%ullivan's speech was that the days o
the prize ring are about ended. There
no money to be made by it. The re
strictions against fighting are now so Sc
we're in most places that a maj
must either take a long and i~ncon7enien
Journey to some out OF the way spot tina
possesses a Sheriff whose sporting sym
pathies would prevent u~nfriendly oppc
sition; or on entering the ring he be
comes a fugitive from justice, and tn
Jail door stands open for him somewhere
with a fair prospect of shutting ats
him. As for the title of champion, NJ
Sullivan regards it with philosophical il
difference, and says if Mr.. Allen wanr
it he may have it. He would be happ
to prove which is the better man wit
gloves; but the state OF society now
such that the prize ring has become su
rounded with such forbidden barriers Thu
even for him, in the exuberance Of h
youthful and peerless proves, 1t I
longer has any attractions. There can
no reason for questioning the sincerit
OF Mr.. Sullivan's objections to fghtin.
for in Mr.. Ryan he faced a better ms
than Mr.. Xii ~~@ possibly be AO", az
whipped him as easily as Mr.. Mace hs
whipped Mr.. Allen. No! prize fghtir
is practically a thing Of the past, al
nothing has been Of such use in produ
ing so general and eficacious hostility
it as the universal publicity given !
it Through the columns OF the press.