The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-21
REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET
FoR MAYOR,
JACOB W. GRuBB.
CRY SEEGEANT,
CD. TRoMPsoS.
CRY CLEHx,
FRANK BOWERS.
wHARYNAsrIR,
HENRY sEAM0N.
The PrIxe Fighter.


The adapc, so oft quoted, on "heroic" oc-
casions, that she who fights and runs
away, may live to fight another day"
wasnever better cxempliaedthanby Mon
day nights fight in New York citS.ior
such It was intended to be-between Fad.
DIV Ryan and John L. Sullivan. Mister
RYAN. ex.blacksmith OF Troy, New York,
succeeded in pounding the life out OF
door old Joe Goss, on secluded portion
Of what is, or, rather was, the virgin soil
Of West Virginia.
The authorities Of this State manifested
a peculiar anxiety to interview Mr.. Ryan
after that affair. In fact, late lamented
Chief OF Police Of this city even went SO
far as TO 90 all the way to Troy to per-
sonally d eIiyer polite invitation TO Nh.
RYAN to call on the State authorities at
Wheeling. MIR. Ryan GONE how or other
was oyerpowered by the request, and be-
sides slipping from the grasp OF the envoy
from this city, also slipped from the mem
DRY Of the world, which for the tlnc was
circumscribed by the boundaries Of this
city. -.
Il was scandalous, but nevertheless it
was thought to be true that PADDY"
RYAN could have been brought to tread
the soil he had desecrated had it notbeen
for money showed into willing palms in
Troy and ,Huence sent here in the shape
of man named Sherman TO work on the
credulity Of the officers who had the honor
OF the State in their hands.
But this is ancient history. Once more
we are called upon to mention the name
OF that distinguished Bostonian, "Mister"
John L. Sullivan, and the foregoing re-
miniscences we're only called forth by The
connection OF his name with "Mister"
RYAN in his bout on Monday evening,
the particulars OF which were chronicled
in our Geographic dispatches yesterday.
The ISrELLIoRScER wants TO state the
case forcibly. Here were two well
known enemies Sullivan had whip
ped Ryan in Mississippi in few rounds
-pitted against each other for q glove"
fight in Madison Square Garden, New
York city. The affair was advertised, and
the police, from former experiences, knew
what it was to be-simply and wholly
bitter contest between two enemies.
Just why the police waited until Madi-
son Square Garden was full we don't
Know. Why did,they not keep the surg
ing crowd out Of the Garden by warn
ing them that the fight would DO stopped,
and thus saved to many Of them the dol
lar they could lily spare2
1t looks bad for Captain Williams and
Inspector Byrnes that they should have
allowed such distinguished crowd to as
semble, including such well known per-
sons as Pete Mccoy; Lord Charles Bere-
ham Clinton, OF Great Britain; "Dooney"
Harris and Roscoe conkling, and
then at the most interesting moment
step forward and stop tho quarrel. 1t is
really difficult to imagine that Captain
Williams had the temerity to spoil the
pleasure Of the evenings enjoyment OF
the royalty gathered there. When
one reflects that no one was
bruised, that both glsdiators shook
hands-over $1,000 receipts-that the
police were SO prompt, when, perhaps a
murder was being committed in another
unprotected" portion Of the city, and that
Sullivan and Ryan, after show OF anger
before the public, divided the proceeds OF
the sell in the quiet OF some bar-room, it
is time that the sharps OF the metropolis
were opening their eyes to these hippo
dromes.
These "gloye dghts"a are notonly shame
full because they can in measure evade
the law, but they attract class of people
who are not only inaamed by the sight,
but who are encouraged to emulate their
example by witnessing the plaudits of a
statesman mingled with the hoarse and
vulgar approval Of the worst class Of per-
sons, commonly called sports.
Virtue in New York Is strained. The
police watch the big little crimes and let
the little big crimes go. When will there
be reform?