Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-07-19
SULLIVAN CHALLENGED.
Bill Nye Comes Up to the Scratch With
Square Proposition

Bill Nye Comes Up to the Scratch With
Square Proposition
New York World: Bill Nye, the Staten
Island Pet, recently handed to The World
the following document with a request
for immediate publication and two copies
of the paper forwarded to his address,;
10 Col. John Laurence Sullivan, Boston,
GdSS.-Sm: see that at your testimoni-
al last evening, in Music hall, you guaran-
tse to lick the next man you stand up
against. | also notice with pain that for
some time you have been unsuccessfully
looking for your peer, and like Goliath
of Cath walking up aud down before the
regular army and begging in loud and
ungrammatical terms for some gentleman
to come and tread on the tail Of your
coat.
The only sling know anything about
Is your best weapon, and so ! shall not
name the cling. l want to meet you on
equal terms, and so | propose only such
conditions as shall be fair for both OF us.
hate to see man making a wreck of
himself while waiting for some one to
meet him, and so l have decided to chal-
lenge You.
have only been waiting till l could
get trained down so fiue that removing
my speotsoles and the cotton FROM my
ears would make half the difference in
my weight, and now that have reached
that point yearn to get hold of you.
now challenge you, John Lawrence
Sullivan, late Of England and France, but
now of Boston, Mass, TO meet me any
where in the United States or IN auy
r-na nj nj will
be assured to both, either in q sixteen,
twenty, OF twenty four foot ring, with
bare knuckles, to talk into a phouogrsph
TO finish, for $4,000 side, the gate
receipts and the cham pionship of the
world.
| select as my timekeeper q large four
pound Waterbury watch and name as my
seconds Noah Webster and Lydia L. Pink
ham.
In case we are broken up by the police,
before the contest ia finished, the purse
shall go to the one having the best of it
at the time OF the interference.
As my bottle holder select ex GOV. st.
John, ot Kansas, and as sponger ! shall
bring an acquaintance Of mine who Dor
rows my Nm brellas and sells them.
1t shall also by part OF the agreement
that the press be fully and freely repre-
sented, each correspondent or reporter to
have his expenses paid to and from the
contest by the loosing party, whether the
place selected be in this country or in
Europe.
All kinds of talk shall count. Every
thing goes-slang, blow, brag, bluster, old
lectures, second hand responses to toasts,
itslicised wind, old Fourth of July ora
tions, contempt for other pugilists and
inpsssioned appeals for some one TO
lick will score. Each man sh2li strip ct
less than 1876 pounds and be allowed
bale of tin foil and box of bronchial
troches.
The free list shall be suspended with
the exception of members of the press,
the Prince of Wales and such of your
favorite wives as you desire to favor with
tickets.
The time oocu pied shall he six dsy ;,
or 30 a finish, straightaway or catchas
oatch-osn. No profanity 20 be allow
ed and no language to be used which
the press shall consider improper for
publication.
Each contestant shall be entitled 20 a
copy OF his remarks made during the
encounter ana may copyright same for
publication in book form afterwards.
am no pugilist, buf when pugiiism
gets within the reach of common Con
versation list aud ConservatOr of CAB, /
think 1t is q shame that you have remain
ed unchsllehged so long. / may be no
match for yOu, but if you will meet ms
on the above terms and the boys Will see
that ws nave fair play, will guarantee
that l will make it interesting for you,
and that so far as 1 am concerned it shall
be no hippodrome. BILL AYE.