The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-23
ABOUT THE BOXERS.
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There i no doah4 thst Sullivan
Iailuse 70 whip Chaftey Aitsneii. rigns
o6 he reei, haseloudet bis title g ne
rhampsonship Of tbs world ana yss
III uumtef 81 men Who arc ws.Hnf "
uersgnaisy denansrste that PC pa
evyu~ bnfk in form y suSYsftans,l
snail. The hsx fellow has n.de ? VI
luaI acknowledgement that ne = 10, =
rv,f as he was By demanding tnss ~
future Contestants nns<f nim: BOZ IN
the orthodox squared sireie, but N Z
r;n~ a less than half ffs AREA yss only
crr mxu responds, even TOT . nent
under the old conditions, and ne does
not name Day OF date Tor tbs battle.
r. merely says In eject II have 10
,.ssgn 10 harry. ] am doing pretty
retI thank You. where ] am The
rrirue obiert Of pugslists, nowadays.
!. L. make money. l am arrumuiat-
irv money snueh ex<ier than BY fight
M recsu.e you made fool OF your
.sT and got entyapped into chuinp
~ Itch I. no reason sby ! sbosiid foi-
lov vpur example. Thi> II my harvest
s;we lam basy gathering my crop:
When Il Il pretty well garnsred ! VIII
,-tnrn 10 Aneriea. and then ! viii be
r~sdy 10 talk fight with you, that Is,
provided you come 10 mr. terms
arm not bound - accept yours by any
rule Of the ring. and yoh and your
frieuds can bet your bottom doiiaFs
fhat viii gise you no advantage that
/. Mi enumerated In the bonds, yeiepf,
the London prize ring rules or the
rules az the Marquis OF Queenst<rry
This l. very aggrasaiing 70 sullivan.
No dout,t. and VERY injurious 70 his
l.,,s;n~ss Interests. bot iti<cosnpiimers-
s.rv ~ his prowrss. IL Mr.. Jake Kill
r.in Dominiek Mccartney, Pat killen,
~ Jeu, smith. the English champion,
thought for moment mat hgns
with John l.. was a soft thing, the tsi.
eeraph wires leading 70 bost1n w9uii
- red hot with their earteis OF deh-
snee. Kilrain is playing sharp game,
and II Sullivan does not drop 10 ~ y
will be winning one. lie and MS
advisers are counting on sutlivan re-
verse driving him back into his bibui-
M. habits. Old John Barseyeorn has
whipped every champion that has ever
tackied him. and. unlike men, age
only adds 10 his yigor. He has already
taken q fall out Of John Sullivan, and
II John Il not very careful he VIII
down him for good. Let the big fellow
Keen or praefscing mt the bar for the
~ Il Il < months as he has for the past
,ix weeks. and either Of the four men
I have named will he able TO make a
ehopping block. of him. Tom Hyer
Kent Yankee Sullivan waiting seven
years before he would give him fight,
and fhfu he reaped the advantage OF
Yankees xtalencss. John l.. has
reached the turning point OF Pugiii.tie
life. Liquor now has acun.niatc effect
an him. One defauch hurts him
more nov than dozen spree- did i've
Years ago. -Four months ago nine.
ienths Of the sporting world believed
him invineible. To-day nine-tenths
Of Il have serious doubts on the sub
ject. One defeat would obliterate all
his triumphs and relegatc him to the
gutter. John had better put a curb
BIT on his appetite for strong drink and
take pull on IL. The men who are
anxious TO compass his ruin are indie
fatigabls persistent, and unless he =
untiringiy yigilant they VIII succeed.
There has been q reitefafioa OF the
stories that Harry Phillips paid Jack
Baidock to get him TO induce Mitchell
10 agree Ia a draw. II II i true. as
Backwith. the Swimmer. alleges. that
lsaIdock holds Phillips unpaid note
for portion Of the bride money, the
facts In the case will not long remain
hidden. Jack viii be able to get more
than the face value for IL, and il will
very likely be copied and published.
l think there Is selual to the story
that Sullivan Is contemplating the nc.
cepfanee of an engagement to travel
with John d. Doris, the circus mana
ger. that will surprise good many
people. Doris and Pat Sheedy have
been very chummy this winter, and
wouldn't II he funny II Pat and John
T.. were 20 bury the Ratchet. shake
hands and go 10 Australia with Doris.
Stranger things than this have come
10 pass. aud We all know that history
Is constantly repeating itself. Sully
could do far worse thing.
Old Charley Perkins. of Rochester.
was IN attendance ut the Pimlieo races
nj Baltimore last week, and the other
evening he got TO talking with lot of
young sporting men about cld-time
lighters. Among other things he said /;
"Of all the pugilists ever met, sohn
&. Heenan was the best and the most
gcntiemaniy, He didn't know how
TO do anything that wasn't fair and
square. aud be would never learn. He
looked more like an athletic banker
than thumpcr. and his manners were
"a gentle as iady's. He made friends
by the hundred wherever he went
among all kinds OF people. Once.
~
his fight with Morrissey, an old lady
was taken sick ON the cars. John
nursed her as though she was his
mother. She got so sick that she had
10 be taken To n hotel when we arrived
nj our de tinstion. and John carried
her In his arms from the ears Ia the
house, several blocks away, as though
she was baby. She was so i'll that
she couldn't ride Ia a carriage, An
old preacher who saw his Kindness,
hut didn't know who he was. said,
That man Il practical Christian.
When he was told that the man he
had SO strongly commended was the
champion pug.iist Of America he re-
piled. | regret exceedingly that such
Is the case. Would to God that he
would always put his great strength
to such good use as he has to-day.
The fight between Johnny Hsylin
and Tommy Danforth tarned out Just
~ was expected. IL was simply a
first-class sparring exhibition. and
there i hardly doubt that 1t was un-
,lerssooi that il was to end in y draw.
This Was all well enough for panforth,
but Haylin cannot afford to tribe with
his reputation that way, Ii Is not well
however. to treat the pahlic that way,
When IL becomes suspicious Il will
tighten its purse strings. and that will
he bad for the fighters.
hear that lem Fell + really training
Tor his contest with la blanche. the
Marine. 10 is hard thing "a teach
and old dog rev tricks. and Fell ha.
fought 80 many times withoat pFcpa.
ton that he is no doubt 10th 10 under
so hart work IL he can IN any way
avoid IL. However, he has had 4
couple oi hard experiences With Jos
i.Anncn aud Bob Ferguson. and Il
may hc tina, drraa of third with ths
more acgive sea cadet may have made
him cautious. Trained or not trained
however, he will do his best ~ win
and that the contest will he rel hol
from start 10 finish no enc can doubt
fcll's method II fighting Is not th,
most scientific in the world. his IL i
never dall.
pcmimiCs Mcs'affcev has not vel
made pnhlic the name OF the iistia
g0ishc<i hig one he has declared h.
will battle with before tho 9Th IT Jssiy
Like tho fellow in the play, he ''ain I
saving a word in contradiction OF the
reyort that il l. 1em Smith. Dom ha,
his money hack of him. and can havs
most any fighter ia the ring II he feel.
so inclined, lie dsd not make much
reputation in his 80 With Jack pemEs