Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-06
prGILISTS AND BROKERS.
TWO CLASSES or MEN WHO
HAVE TAKEN A TUMBLE.

COMMUNICATIVE CircumstancesV w hi I'll
nave Brought About Their Downfall
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shining Lights.
NEW YORK. Jan. 4.-Pugilists and bro.
tors are no longer fashionable in New
York. Both are now more or less identI
fed with gamblers, but whether this has
ANYTHING to do with their lapse from pop
MARTY or not is a question. There is,
however, no question about the steadily
increasing Importance OF the New York
rambler. He permeates the town. His
calm, pale, and usually sickly-loOking
face is encountered in the oil, produce,
and stock exchanges, at the theatre, the
opera and the hotel, in the park, on the
road. at the races. He is invariably clad
in the most fashionable clothes, and he
increases in members every day. l often
wonder why they are such a sickly-look
ing lot of men. Most of them are appa.
reptly diving OF consumption. They move
slowly and are monstrOusly suhdued.
StIll they are loyal lot of men to one an
other, and valuable friends at all times to
men who float about town.
The pugllist was at the height of his
popularlty and fame in New York about
Jour years ago. Since that Tune TIE
"dueer' matches and hippodrOmes have
gradually destroyed public confidence in
lighters until now there are only two men
in the pugiEstIc world whom New York
ers at large believe in. They are Sullivan
and Dempsey. Both Of them fight TOR all
they're worth whenever the time comes,
and neither is addicted TO writing innu.
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most noticeable thing about the great
popularity OF pugilIsm here few years
ago was the number of men who pTotited
hY Suliivan's fame. Tug Wilson, Shade,
Fryer, Bill England and several other
heavy, cumbersome and stOlid plugs who
were really nothing more than second.
class fighters, were made Gemi-gOds bY
their own insuiferahle blowing fora while.
Perhaps the man who has made the most
reputation out of Sullivan, however,
is Paddy Ryan, This gentleman's
he was very handsomely and com
pletely thrashed by Sullivan about
i've years ago. since that time Ryan has
lived aud grown prosperous on the
strength Of The defeat. He has talked
more about what he proposed to do and
done less than any other man alive, and
bis facility in writing challenges is mar
Vicious. just now ne Is flooding the press
with forecasts of what he is gong TO do
with Jem Smith, the present English
champion, whom Sullivan will not cross
the water to fight. Ryan's plans are
enough to startle Smith, but they won't.
Nor will they particularly interest any
one else, for everybody seems to have ar
rived at the conclusion that Ryan will
never put up his hands again. | know
him well. BE is a powerful and heavy
man, good natured and gentlemanly, and
be is everything that a pugilist should be
EXCEPT a fighter. Dempsey has won
forty odd battles since Ryan has faced a
man.
MITCHELL AND BURKE ARE CAPITAL IL
Illustrations
Of the money that n0n-fghtinG pugilists
can get out OF the public by Infinite boast
ing. MitchelPs reputation was also made
through being whipped by Sullivan. He
knocked Sullivan down. ! was within
four feet of the pair when the Touchdown
occurred. The big fighter was balanced
on one foot and preparing to move for
ward when Mitchell caught him a heavy
body blow and landed MIN. Sullivan
sprang to his feet and knocked Mitchell
over the ropes, under the ropes. off OF the
platform and fat on the platform until the
police stopped the fight out of pity for
Mitchell. Ever since that time the Eng
lishman has claimed that be could have
whipped sullivan if the fight had not been
stopped. All through the ring there is
the same tiresOme and endless blowing. !
Mouth fighting goes on everywhere; real !
fighting is n rarity. The result of all this !
IS seen in the apathy Of the public in pu-
gilistic matters. The plugs have killed |
the goose that laid the golden egg. Spar !
Ing matches, even between well known |
men, are sparsely attended. Pugilists |
are no longer followed about the streets |
or exploited in the papers, and New |
Workers haven't a bit of confidence in any |
one but sullivan and Dempsey. These
two men are not handled by ''managers" |
who run faro and roulette tables at night |
and WORK the prize ring exactly as they |
would a horse OF their own in q heavily |
staked race.
The decline Of the broker is Obvious. A |
lew years ago he was Onsidered dash
ing, shEewd, wide-a wake and Jolly chap, |
VINO was welcomed everywhere on &C
count OF his generosity, snap and hilarlty.
lie wore too much jewelrv, perhaps, was
a bit OYerdressed and talked shop con-
stdntly, bat all this was considered rather
me in view of toe great Ego" Of the fes
tive young broker. He posed as a ladies'
man, as rule, and was at the theatre
very often with ladies more or less glar-
lngiy attired. The crown of his dashing
career was reached when he felt that mis-
name was coupled with that OF some
pretty burlesque or comic opera divinity,
and he took the chat OF his fellows con-
corning her with a smile Of Vaulting and
lridePeent seH-satisfactiOn. He had great
lueas OF what bowling swell should be
IKE, and his .ondness for cabs and cham
payne amounted almost to "a passion. He
w6rshipod the little tin gods of ''the
streer' with a species OF noisy devotion
s0at took the whole world into it's conf
lence, and was hail-feilow-well-met with
every body, from a ticket speculator to a
waiter. There were so many talky and
pushing young Wall street men about
mat they carried things before them for a
"hile, but a short time ago there was a
good deal OF quiet but determined rebel
ION on the part Of the more substantial
sluh men against the noisy and bolster
nus money traders, and less and less of a
disposition 10 put up with their eVerlast-
ing Chatter about shops, "tOny girls"
great rackets," and the Ike. They were
very heartily blackhalled az the clubs in
every instance, and then the heavy de-
lressioniell Oh the market and they found
uelr means cramped. Then the dashing
'oung broker discovered what an extra
,lulnasy difference there was between
i'shmg young broker with money and
ue same person without money. IL was
shock, and cruel one. The general
'uohe, too, began to discriminate be.
"een brokers and operators on the mar
Nc'' a confused idea bad previously OBJ