Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-08
TIE CHAMPION.
A Personal Description rof John Z.
Sullivan, the Pugilist.
HIS wild Animal" EsoolE----TES
"DOTmOuse'' State OF EEis
intellectually.

"Je@' in Detroit Free Press.
What remains of or glory? Echo an
swers what, and truth proudly points her lin
ger 20 the monogram on the windows Of No.
ia Washington street, and the sign above 1t,
"I1ha !. Sullivan WHAT hath the north,
TIC south. lie east Or the west, or all creation,
TO coruare with him in lofty eIninence!
John himself saws he is the best man on the
continent" and the continent don't seem in
clined u Z ny it. OF course there are differ
ent kinds Of best There is Joseph Cook, for
instance, faciIe princeps in real goodness, as
all men. particularly himself, viii admit. Mr..
Sullivau's virtue is Of another kind lie
resembath rather the late Col Shark, of
whom it was said or sung, that
''lVhen on the shady side ne stepped,
To the other side creation crept."
John Is The Unquestioned champion of all
pugiEsts lis the voice of the slugger;
hear him complain that there are no more
worlds TO conquer. Let him rest easy. To
every man cometh his Waterloo, and J. L. S.
will yet find his'n. Meanwhile, he is a type
of the times and worth little study. His
bar-room, Of which so much has been said, is
not particularly palatial. A good deal OF
money has evidently been expended III gid
ing, glassware and brasswarc, and there is q
nude picture on the wall, nearly life size, rep
res ting the Birth of Ven;S" which prob
abb --ast u good deal more money than it is
artis, lily or commercially worth. The fair
Aplr,..-.-e j. painted in the approved Partisan
style 81 ,.rt; that is. she has not pretty face,
and he h.rcy,- : more Suggestive Of the cor
set-educai., toEieva"l, than Of natures
mold, m Eois Cr.ina. ! bust of tie pro-
prietOr Of tn }.>' . suruo'Eits the cOrlIice OF
wood owe. Jilc -" 1t i; cat il some sort Of
hard, yellow WOO! All j, p.or likeness. So,
by the way, are /, Che photographs and
prints OF the great i.:,u.
None do him iust.c., EcT al make him ap-
pear a coarse, thick! NJ bi,;,,er, when he
is not. He has regular iratpi>,s, a straigh5
nose and clean-cut mo.Ita, winch would be
handsome but for the liz. .rged droop at
the corners not completely ht,i Fl by his jet
mustache. 1t is also InarroI q little by a
tendency, 10 doubt a legacy from his early
smuggling days, to throw his under Jaw out, in
the well-huoWn conventional "what-1'yer-
soy exPI tssion which, accompanied by q
pitching down of the head and q curving Of
the shoulders is the tough boys" favorite
method Of carrying dslnay into the heart of
an opponent. John has got over the what
d'yer-soy period, but the prctrUding jaw ap-
pears at times as q relic Of the obsolete age.
But for il be would he handsome and even
a pleasant-lCol.ing man until you looked into
his eyes. Pretty hard eyes to describe. did
not even note their coIo., the expression Of
them taking M al ones attention.
Once ! saw in Central park q lion which
had been recently imported and had not &C
qgIired the conventional base stare of the
meaagerie. When You looked at him and
to catch bis eye he looked, not at you, but
through aud beyond you, with a compre-
hensiTe, open gaze in which the human being
before him occupied no more attention thar
the mote III tie sunbeam Well, that is just
the way the Slu9ger looks at one, or through
one-a wiid-anmal look, but not wild look
You feel that, as an ordinary human, you dc
not even block his light There is another
expression, and it is also an animal one, a
quick, sharp way OF glancing about, without
moving his head, which convinces me that
would not care to try surprising him with
one under the ear. For the rest, the cham
pion boxer.would not attract ones attention
on the street by any apparent superiority of
strength or skill He does not look tall or
strong beyond the sons OF men, but they say
that when he is undreSsed he looms up and
becomes =. giant. He did not strip for me-
Neither did l interview him, save in the
mute and modest manner of an humble adj
mirer afar off.
l wish ! could add that the Hon. Mr. Sui
Ivan had another and finer nature, that in
his privata and unprc.esSional life he is an
admirer Of Emerson, and always carries q
copy of Omar Khayyam" i'll his grpslcE I
am constrained to say, however, that Johns
finer intellectual nature is still ''dornouse, u
if, indeed, it hath any germ Of life at al. He
is sluggcr, ami nothing else. l doubt il he
even succeeds as a vender of the beverage
which oUt-SlUGgeth al sluGgers. However,
he IS youH- yet, as was said of Jim SmaIls, p"
and there Is 10 knowing what q BoStonian
may sprouU into with the growth Of the inner
life. TO quote again from the Concord
Philosophy" Feeling implies solf-actio1,
the egoalu'uistic percep5ivity, not only il re-
action Of the environment as in nutrition,
but IL producing the impression maize by tie
environment within the soul OF the animal
This reproduction IS accompanied, co-rela-
lively and cO-oriinately, b. an unconscious
causllity, or inference, which transfers tie
occasion Of tae feeling 10 an external world. -