The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-20
PUGILIST1C.
The Coming Contest Between Sullivan and
Mitchell-Joe EIliugsworth's Prospects.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal

The Coming Contest Between Sullivan and
Mitchell-Joe EIliugsworth's Prospects.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
New YORK, June 19-When the champion
slugger, John Lawrence Sullivan. dropped into
New York on his way home from the West he
was chock full of good intentions. "No." he said,
when one of the boys asked him to take some
thing, II amt drinkin'" The good resolutions,
however, did not hold out, and the next night
the big fighter was roaring drunk. 1t was on
this night that it was decided that Sullivan and
Mitchell should face each other at the Polo
Grounds on July 5. Pat Sheedy had engineered
the match with great ingenuity. and Sullivan
talked loud and bold Mitchell was nothing to
him. toy to be broken, as it were. In truth,
however. there was flavor of alcohol in his
talk If there is one man that Sullivan looks
upon with respect in pugilistic way he is
Charles Mitchell. He knows what Mitchell has
done, and believes that he can do better now.
If they do face each other on July there will
not be any kind of a fight The police of this
town have habit of stopping all of Sullivan's
fights that take place here, and should the fight
get any way warm at the Polo Grounds, the
policemens' clubs would quickly separate the
combatants But the Polo Grounds are large.
Thirty thousand spectators have crowded them
before, and ST. ticket to Sullivan fight" is
moderate price. There is wealth for some one
in the exhibition. This is not fight for a stake,
by the way, but it is division of the gate
ceipts between winner and loser, the latter to
take 80 per cent Thirty per cent. of $4,000 is
little fortune all by itself. Mitchell is only too
delighted to get any kind of a show at Sullivan,
and in the instance of real fight taking place,
there is any amount of money to wager here
that Sullivan will not be the winner.
/ was told by an old sporting man. the other
day, that there were good grounds for believing
that Joe Ellingsworth was the coming middle
weight. There is good deal of talk going the
rounds" he said, ''about Fogarty being able to
do up Ellingsworth, but / don't think that he
can They say, too. that if they had fought
longer at their mill in Jersey City that Fogarty
would HAYS won This is not So Ellingsworth
has surprised everybody, and in fight to finish
with Fogarty wocld stand big chance of win
ming The whole secret was this: Ellingsworth
was physically incapable OF training for his first
fight with Foeartv, and coasd only exercise his
arms and shoulders. When he met him he was
weak on the legs He has never met a crack
professional before. and was surprised and dis
heartened the way his rughes were met In the
last fight it was different Ellingsworth was as
strong as iron and in first-cass shape every way.
There is no doubt, however. that he
was afraid of Fogarty in the first three
rounds. He had no confidence in him
self and was a good deal unnervea- These
rounds were Fogarty's chance. but he didn't take
advantage of it. After that Elinesworth got
courage and had it been a fight to the finish he
wanld have won. as toward the ond Fogarty WAS