Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-24

9o0> Neutrality-suspicious. WV OhkSs AsOs1sAsR
lhsv gave him. for half dozen rounds
Mclean knooksd him around joss = be
pa.xsed. BY that time, however. haf-
1ington vaa sick Of that manner Of con-
Quoting The proceedings. and aid. n .
tone u diseust: I've had eooa9h OF
this Eualfah fighting. and nov I'm ao-
ing 10 show yoa itt1s Amesisoa 0ghs-
ING A - rid thAe b HIT Mclean
one biov Ike The chuck u hastssinx
ram, just oboye ~ Dask On ~ pei OF
shs ssomseh- nsLaan droppsd. eos up
snd fell again thres ttmea bat ~ dcns.
Tbat one blov settied the Aeh1, and hs
didn't get over ~ s1eeos Il = Tor tvo
years. Whist . jubilee ~ Whias had
when Harrington Ros beck: They made
him . present Of stsll IN Warrington
masksS. illuminated b, and esvs him .
reception there. Half u Nov York Wa
present. All! II vas no d,aGSscs in
Shoss days 70 b . snooenfnl fighter.
ANDY Mclean hAd beushsg named
John, . dHoVor oot IN Ohio. Whsn
John hsasd how Harrington bad
knocked Andy out b. 90 snse Of dis
sstisdsd, and cana On hers 70 shov him
that theirs voYe some moro 0cL6ans
left. He vailed into HasYin9Son's stall.
down IN the market. and announced
himself. I'm . brother Of Andy Nc
Lean. and want 70 fight yoo.' HarrinR-
ton said thas bis business there VS.
- ling meat, not fighting. and advised
Mclean 70 go away. Bat the drover
began tn bluster. and finally wore Har-
Yington's patience oo:. Al last Har-
fington said: Very veil IL you want
70 fight come right over % HobokeH
with me. and I'll accommodate you,'
taking OF? bis check apron as he spoke.
Well, they wen. TO Hoboken, and Har
rington licked John just a. he had
Andy. with single blow, only the
drover happened 10 catch his dose right
on his jugular vain, and how long 1t vas
before be go: his neck straight again |
don't know. That droveY was 8 feet
inches in height, built very large. raw
boncd and muscular, and 80 inches
taller than Harrington, and when Bill
knocked him out with one blow that
settled his fighting reputation. Nobody
sftsr that. wanted TO fight Bill Harrin8
ton.
"in 1884 Deaf Burke, tho champion OF
England, came over here. and match
WAS made up between him and a mar
named Jim OConneIl, who WAS tesch
ing sparrin1 in New York They fought
up on Harris Island. in 1875. and it wa,
= bitter, hard fight. for the Irish feelina
vas stirred mp against the English
Burke won in nine rounds. The lrisf
were desperately down on Burke, ane
when in 1887 hs fought another Irish
man named ORourks. down in New
Orleans. and licked him, the Irish fac
ton, in their rage, broke into the rims
and attacked hin, intending to hammer
him ~ death. He managed to get out
| mount horss and escape. They fires
shots after him a. tho horse gall0pe(
away, lackily, however. without hittins
him.
in 1875 an English fighter nance
Tom HUMPHREYS came over, and while
he was looking for a fght in basines'
| way. he fell in with Jim Bevins on'
they had violent quarrel. Bsvins Wal
a baker. and, BY tee way. Is still alive
They fought over in williamsburRh Oh
day that people said was the coldes
svcs seen in America. II was so colo
that yellow Yaek,' q big negro, VIII
vas up in a tsee looking At the fight, &C
tusily frozs stiff there. But Bsvins AND
Humphriss kept each other warn
enough. Humphries had the best Of j
for nearly an hour. but finally Bevin'
lot 60 . right handed blow on his GA
that started tho blood from ears, nos
and mouth oil together, and whippe(
chs Englishman The feeling between
the Two men and their friends was vsry
bitter, and out Of that hRht grew sever
al other savage ones.
IA hard fight vaa that between Johl
Teal, a butcher. and James Joralemon
q caulker. IL waa q gruoGe fight. AND
vas won BY Jorslemon. In thoss day
the boys would havo . row in dapc'
house ut night, and make up mattel
on the spot to 60 somewhere and fight i
Ous the next morning. There was n,
shooting or cutting. such ~ you hear %
nowadaya. but good. square, honest
manly fighting.
The cold business fighting really be
gan With Yankee Sullivan, who, afts
be came over from Ireland tho soconC
time, tn 1891. fought successfully Ion
Secor. Vince Hammond, Bill Beel anC
Caunt. and whipped them ali. Will
the exception Of the match with Ham
mood, all these fights were devoid o.
ani@osity. He whipped Hammond il
six and ons-hAlf minutes, out at tn.
Schuylkill Water Works, and within
len than that time more 5000 peopl,
we're nQhtinR over the fight.
Then came the bitter fight betvesr
Hyer and Sullivan, on Feb. 7th, 1S49
which vas the result Of . long standiuG
difference and . bar-Room fight in who'll
Sullivan gos badly whipped. He VA,
again badly whipped In the ring, vher
Hyes R0s away With him in Is rounds
within II minutes.
"rhs lase Rrses Aahts in which thsr.
vas dsep animosity between the moi
vsrs between Yankee Sullivan and Johr
norSissey, on Ont. 18th, 1853. and b.
tween Jehn 4oR1iassy and John q. Hes
nAn, fought % Oel. 22d. 1853, both ol
which veee. - oil he world knows
ven By 0osfiasey."
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