St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-14
John L. Sullivan, Again Maintains His
Reputation and Downs Burke, the
irish Lad"
Throughout the Five Rounds the Latter
Displays Much Nerve, but Loses
by Points.
Seven-Round Mill in Massachusetts--
Disappointment at Coney
Island.
Hanlan Talks About His Race With
Teemer--Other Sporting
Matters.
The Hard Hitters.

CHICAGO, June 13.-The grand stand at
the driving park and about two hundred
and fifty carriages contained over twelve
hundred persons at 6:14 o'clock this after
noon when Jack Burke, the 'sIrish lad,"
weight ITO pounds, entered the ring to face
John l.. Sullivan, weight 237 pounds.
for five rounds, Marquis of Queens
berry rules. Previous to the event
of the day a mixed program of wrestling and
sparring had been given, and the crowd was
somewhat excited over some blood, easily
drawn, from surprised middle weight
from Bloomington by a wiry little chap in
troduced as Tommy Warren, ex-
feather-weight of the Pacific coast.
The appearance of the champion was sig
nal for an exhibition of enthusiasm, but
when the 'Irish lad' walked jauntily down
the track the crowd arose as one man and
cheered. Some little time was lost in ar
ranging preliminaries and in selecting the
referee. Herman Thurston, in the
meantime, at the sight of the champion,
lounging indifferently in his corner and
looking like giant compared to his adyer-
sary, induced number Of persons to tell
Burke to keep up his heart and he would
knock him out. At 6:23 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 a step or two and
MADE A FEINT,
suggestive of meditated Ieft-hander. He
became slightly more serious moment La
ter when Burke, cleverly lodging danger
Gus highlander, 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 brodght him to his
knees, and left red mark that is there yet.
Before the close of the second round Burke
was wildly applauded, on account of sew
eral clever hits leveled on the champions 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 it closed, however, without any notice
able advantage having been gained
by either. except for some more
of Burke's left hand work on the
champions face, during the latter's
recovery from several terrific lunges. The
third round was uneyentful. At the be-
ginning Of the fourth, however, it was ap-
parent that the champion had decided the
fifth round would be superfiuous. Though
Burke was never
SQUARELY KNOCKED DOWN
he was four times forced against the ropes
and then fell on his hands and knees.
Sullivan forced the fighting and his blows
became so wicked that the referee and
'Parson' Davies, master of ceremonies, be-
gan to look as though they smelt blood,
when the men retired to their corners. 1t
was evident that of the two the
champion was the worse winded.
In the last round Burke got in two of his
best hits on Sullivan's neck and jaw, but
their effect would scarcely have been more
noticeable had they been eXerted on brick
WALL The champion forced the fighting as
in the fourth round, and though number
of times he had Burke against the ropes
and on his knees, he was unable to
get in single effective blow, and the match
was decided 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'' leaped from the ring after the
decision and walked down the track as
jauntily as though five rounds with the
champion was hardly worth mentioning.