The daily gazette., 1882-07-18
ONE GENT.
TUG WILSON'S PLUCK.
Standing Up Before Sullivan Through Four
Rounds, Like Man, and winning His
Money.

Rounds, Like n Man, and Winning Hi
Money.
The great glove fight is ended and "Tue'
Wilson is the lion of the hour. He stood uI
successfully before John L. Sullivan for foul
ronnds in Madison Square Garden last night
and took the best his boasted antagonist
could give. Fifteen thousand people were
present, and the fight is thus described
sullivan began a terrific onslaught on
Wilson'S face and chest, evidently having
made up his mind TO force matters from the
outstart. Wilson seemed dazed at first, but
responded splendidly until he was sent
against the ropes by terrible right-hander
IN Tire mouth. He succeeded in landing one
oioW, and heavy one, on Sullivan's left
Jaw, but in attempting to parry the return,
iost his equilibrium and left his guard open.
In an instant he was sent staggering against
tne ropes again with another sledge-hammer
blow in the face. No sooner had he re-
covered and faced his opponent than down
he went again.
| TUG" TRIES THE DROP TRICK.
From that moment Wilson changed tao
tlcs. Instead of running the danger of
having his brains added he adopted the old
drop trick. Six times he avoided punish
lnent by this dodge, and, when time was
called at the end of three minutes, Wilson
went to his corner with confident smile.
Inc second round opened with skillful
ie1ntmg for few seconds and then Sullivan
began his sledge- hammer business again.
BLOWS that seemed capable of telling an OK
were rained In upon Wilson, who seemed
almost powerless to ward them off. He
dropped five times, bringing Sullivan on
Top OF him twice, and once nearly throwing
MIN over the ropes. By this time the people
were wild with excitement, They cheered
ana hooted and surged toward the ring
until the police had to drive them back
Both men were getting angry, and their
seconds were bounding excitedly about the
stage. Chambers kept close to his man
with large handkerchief, tanning him
continually with It. Before this round had
closed Wilson had "dropped' seven times
IN all, but appeared to be getting weak,
Betting was now 100 to 40 in favor of Sulli-
van, for it seemed nothing short of a
miracle for Wilson to be able to stand
another three minutes of such terrible
punishment.
Sullivan appeared to think SO himself, and
started in when time was called for the third
round to prevent his opponent from drop
ping" He managed to close with Wilson
and administered some telling blows in the
chest, but the willy Englishman wriggled
away finally and dropped again. He was
SLOW i'll getting on his feet and came up
''groggy." The audience seemed to become
suddenly infuriated and cries came from all
parts of the house to knock the Englishman
over the ropes. One straight blow from
Sulliyan's shoulder almos6' did this, but |
Wilson recovered in time to get another
stinger under the eye and went down |
again.
lie accepted the full ten seconds allowable |
under the rule to get on his feet, and man
aged weakly to parry a terrific under-cut
aimed at him as he turned. Sullivan's vio-
lent exertions began to tell about this time, |
Tor when Wilson again dropped and grabbed |
his legs, the American fell heavily. Both |
men got up slowly and Sullivan, despite his |
evident weakening, stuck to first principles |
and finished the round as he had the others, |
by close, hard fighting. 1t was evident at |
the end of the third inning that Wilson's |
cunning trick might save him after all, but
enough the audience showed no
with the Englishman whatever,
and Sullivan was requested several times to
kick "Is Fad coffin"
THE LAST ROUND.
The fourth and last round was equally as
vicious as the first three. Sullivan felt that
his laurels were slowly slipping away from
him, and stepped up to the scratch with the
lir of a man determined to do or die. He
At once began to press Wilson hard, batter
ng down his guard as though it did not ex-
81. AGAIN ulu tne EngHsn champion at |
tempt his old dodge, and then Sullivan did
that brought the house TO its feet
With volley of yels and cheers. He stood
iirectly over his exhausted opponent, who |
Knew that he must face his man inside of
zen seconds or lose the fight There was no |
escaping another of those terrible blows.
Wilson waited until the last second and then
rot up and tried to dodge, but was knocked
Utmost senseless against The ropes Sullivan |
continued to fight hard, but Wilson's last
lrop and rise ended the round and the fight
Nobody seemed particularly pleased. The !
eceipts were $50, 900 and the expenses 81 800.
Wilson received the 81, 900 stake money to-
light at Harry Hills, and the half of the
let receipts will be paid over tomorrow.
Wilson was knocked down twenty-seven
lines during the fight, eight times in the
lrst round, nine in the second, five in the
hird and five in the fourth Before the fight |
Degan both men were summoned to the side
If the ring and submitted their gloves to the
Inspection of Captain Williams. That officer
himself as satisfied, and good
shrugged his shoulders at the
aughter of the audience. Wilson, holding
II 900 in his gloyed hand, then ran over to
where Sullivan sat and offered to bet that
lmout that he would not be knocked out
Sullivan declined the offer, saying there was
llready enough money on the match. Both
men. shook hands when the fight ended.
Sullivan at once left the ring, but Wilson
to receive the congratulations of
lis friends.