Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-16
JOHN L. AND PADDY RYAN.
Their Agreement to Meet iva the West
TO Thump Each Other.

lSdIlS vi Ills COunUTylne0. since That
event Ryan has fired challenges at Sulli-
van with praiseworthy perseverance, and
the sporting public has been looking on
with interest, ready to come down with
its hundreds and its thousands whenever
1T should please the fighters to fight.
But these great men have been as hard
to bring together as are the effete mon
archs of the Old World. Sullivan's
friends declared that Ryan would rather
talk than fight. Paddy's friends said the
Big Fellow was afraid, and things were
getting very much mixed, when yester-
day the clouds of doubt and bitterness
were dispelled by the glad tidings that
Paddy and John had come to an under
standing, and in the near future would
punch each other in the far West.
Early in the afternoon Ryan was wan
dering around the Police Gazette office,
his big blue eyes filled with the sad look
of hope deferred, and expressing his
private belief that he, Paddy, was a
sucker, and that Sullivan was never
coming. But he did Sullivan wrong.
Ever as he spoke the Pride of Boston
and his friends climbed from Bound
Brook train, which had brought them
from Philadelphia, and fought their way
through bowling crowd to the ferry
boat. If it had been an Arctic explorer,
the Father of his Country or Grover
Cleveland, the crowd would have gone
to the ferry and stopped, But it was
Sullivan, and the crowd didn't stop. 1t
paid its three cents fare almost to a man,
and left hardly any room on the boat for
wagons. Mr.. Sullivan stood the adula-
ton as long as he could get air enough to
fill his big lungs. When that gave out
he went outside, chartered an empty
truck, and climbed into it with Arthur
Chambers, Arthur Pierce Callum and
William E. Harding, who accompanied
him.
A glance of Sullivan's eye told the
crowd that he wanted the truck to him
self, so they let him have it, and wor-
shipped at distance during the rest of
the trip. On the New York side Sullivan
hired two-horse carriage, and offered to
pay for the use of the truck. But the
driver intimated that his truck had be-
come sacred to him, and refused to take
any pay, like the Paris cabman who car
ried Victor Hugo for nothing and the
Berlin coachman who extended a like
courtesy to Prince Bismarck. Sullivan
showed pleasure at this evidence of de-
votion, and was whirled to the Gazette
office.
Paddy Ryan stepped bareheaded to the
door to greet him, and escorted him po
litely to the inner office, where business
was to be transacted. There sporting
men of note were thick as blackberries.
and each man had from one to dozen
suggestions. Sullivan listened to them
all with patience, and then had the arti-
cles of agreement drawn up as he liked.
He said he had had enough of law, and
! SO the affair must be managed so as to
preclude all danger of his being arrested
or otherwise troubled. Every precaution
was taken to this end.
The coming fight was mentioned in the
articles as fair stand-up exhibition with
| small gloves, according to the new rules
of the London ring. The said exhibition
to be for the sum of s., 800 "a subscribed
purse), the Police Gazette diamond belt,
and the championship of the world, the
winner to receive in addition two-thlrds
of all excursion money, and the loser one
third.
The fight will occur on the 10Th of June
at place to be chosen by the principals,
or bv the donor of the belt in case they
should fail to agree on a location. Both
men must appear in the ring between &
and 10 a. M, and Harry Hill will hold
, the purse until the winner is named.
When nothing more remained to be done
| but to add the signatures every one
| sighed with relief, and Sullivan and Ryan
= sat down to have talk, while Jere Dunn
5 who killed Jimmy Elliott, winked al
' Matsada Sorakichi the wink that makes
' Americans and japanese brothers, anC
' took him and Lord Dashington Murphy
! out for drink.
r The champion and ex-champion sa
side by side for long while, and every
Que had good chance to compare them
Sullivan looked every inch a fighter, anC
! the greatest compliment that could b.
' paid him from the fighting standpoin
2 would be to describe him accurately. Hi
polished shoes, his glossy hat, his fin
q blue Prince Albert coat, and his new
3 spring trousers of a remarkable yellow
. hue were exactly such as a rich and pros
y porous champion would be supposed +
7, wear. His coat bulged out in every di
rection, under the impulse of his swellin
y chest. Jumps and ridges rose on hi
? arms and legs when he moved them
6 and a big cigar stuck in the left-han
: corner of his mouth and pointing roun
E toward his ear, completed a picture {
a noble independence. Sullivan was i
= splendid condition, as sober as any Judg
q could be, and his clear skin and appear
ance seemed to contradict the storie
4 told about his heavy drinking.
q Paddy Ryan did't look so much like
y fighter as Sullivan did, but he locke
4 very fine, too. His stylish black suit +
- to perfection, his face was wreathed
smiles, and big green emerald shon
y below his auburn moustache.
4 No one seeing the two men togeth(
. would ever have supposed they wei
g going to fight. Whatever Ryan said Su
Ivan concurred in, and when Sullivan
= cigar went out Ryan leaned over towar
e him and gave him light from the clgf
W he held in his mouth. Sullivan locke
I his thanks, and said:
. cater all, Paddy, it's just matter
business; where's the use OF hard lee
ings?" ,,ro1poddu
l., "And. Paddy" said Sullivan, "if | liz
ut Won I'll shake hands with you, and II y'
s. lick me I'll shake just the same"
a RYAN said he would shake on the san
&c nrinciples. Both men said they Wou
es have no difficulty in agreeing on Piia
of to fight. and each declared his Wlllln
of ness TO fight anywhere, provided the
10 babitants had plenty of money ana ~ U
at MAGISTRATES were not too severe. IL
is fir5t will probably occur in Montan
10 near Butte City.
ID At 4.3O D. m. the principals went
ne TavIor's hotel in Jersey City to sign
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