Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-15
BuRKE's SCIENCE
Ayails Little Against the Champions
Weight and Brute Force.

Ayails Little Against the Champions
Weight and Brute Force.
CHICAGO, June l3.-The grand stand Of
the driving park and about 25O carriages
contained over $4,000 persons at 6:l4
o'clock this afternoon, when Jack Burke,
the Irish Lad, weight 10 pounds, entered
the ring to face John L. Sullivan, weight
237 pounds, for Eve rounds, Marquis of
Queensbury rules. Previous to the event
of the day mixed programme of wrestling
and sparriug han been given and the crowd
was somewhat excited over some blood
easily drawn from surprised middlsweight
from Bloomington BY wiry little chap in
roduced by Tommy Warren, ex-feather-
weight of the Pacific coast. The sp-
pearsnce Of the champion was the
signal for an exhibition of enthusiasm,
but when the Irish lad walked jsuntily down
the track the crowd arose as one man and
cheered. Some little time was lost in ar
ranging the preliminaIies and in selecting
the referee, Herman Thurston. Meantime
the sight OF the champion lounging indif-
terently in his corner and
Looking Like n Giant
compared to his adversary induced a num-
Der of persons to entreat Burke to
Keep Up your heart my boy and you'll
knock him out. At 623 time
was called. The champion smiled as he
shook hands with the little man in front OF
him and looked as though he would laugh,
when the latter danced backward step or
two and made teint suggestive Of a
meditsted left handler. lie became slightly
more serious a moment later when Burke
cleyerly lodging dangerous right handler,
hit the champion rafting blow in the
chin with his left. Almost instantly Burke
was dealt a heavy blow in the back Of his
neck, which brought him to his knees and
left red marx that is there yet Before
the close of the first round Burke was wildly
applsuded on account of
Several Clever Hits
leveled on the chsmpi on's face and neck
while in the act of lodging blows that
would have felled an OK. In the second
round Sullivan began to realize that his
adversary possessed an amount of nerve
dexteritY and science that would make up
for great deal that he lacked in weight
but closed, however, without any noticeable
advantage having been gained BY either
except for some more Of Burkes left hand
work, on the champions face during the
lstters recovery from several terrific luuges.
The third round was uneventful At the
beginning Of the fourth, however, it was
apparent that the champion had decided
that fifth round would be superAuous
Though Burke was never squarely knocked
down he was four times forced against the
ropes and three times fell on his hands and
knees. Sullivan forced the fighting aud
his blows became so wicked that the referee
and Parson Davis, master of ceremonies,
began to look as though they smelled blood.
When the men retired to their corners it
was evident that Of the two
The Champion Was Worse MINDED.
In the last round Burke got in two OF his
best hits on Sullivsn's neck and jaw, but
their effect would scarcely have been less
noticeable had they been exerted on brick
wall The champion forced the fighting as
in the fourth round, and though q number
Of times he had Burke against the ropes and
on his knees he was unable to get IN 8 sim
gle effective blow, and the match was de-
cided in his favor owing to the fact that all
knock downs, such as they were, were on his
side. Otherwise the points were nearly
equally distributed. The Irish Lad lesped
from the ring after the decision and walked
down the track as jsuntily as though five
rounds with the champion were hardly
worth mentioning.