The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-23
THE SPORTING WORLD.
The New York Clipper
Determines to Hold
No More Stakes.
The MICH TALKED SULLIVAN
AND KiLRAIS MILL.
Sporting News and Gossip.


TINES OF an important decision reached
by the managers OF one of the oldest and
best-known papers In the country. The
paper Is the New York Chgtfr-known
oil over the world as one Of the best, II
not the best, sporting and dramatic au-
thoritlei in the world.
/ Tor years the Clipper has been holding
STAKES for meetings Of all sorts, and IT
has been the medium through which am
bilious boxers have made known their
warnings TO meet other Sspiranis for
/ tistic hOnOrs and the stake money
When Sullivan s.. 900 was deposited
there ii was taken by the public as mat
ter of course the paper was reliable, and
$1,000 is biz money 70 put into an I'M
tried newspapers safe. Then along
came the kilrain people, clothed IN a
suit OF whitewashed surety and honesty.
/ They wanted receipts, and all that non
sense, and the talk OccasiOned by the
withdrawal of the money, when the re-
ceipt was refused, was OF heavy calibre-
The Clippers action was upheld through
ont but the bother OF the affair was an
moving
Vow the Chppsy people have decided
10 wash theif hands OF Oh such business,
AMI hereafter they viii not print chal-
lenges for boxing matches or prize
fights, and they will not hold forfeit
money OF stake money for any aolt Of q
cOntest-nOt even 4 talking match This
is important 10 sporting men who have
always looked upon the Idpper as the
mouthpiece and Bank Of Iiitiana
a GAME or BLUFF
When we old sports used 10 60 10
school years and years ago. We were
taught that bluff meant rough. OF
coarse IN manner OF appearance, and
that II also was the name OF q steep
perpendicular bank. NOWADAYS there is
a new definition of the word, and, under
the able instruction OF Jake hilrain and
Charley Mitchell, we are being taught
that it means 10 say y0n are going 10 10
something you never intend doing, OF
that you can DO something il is impOssi-
bic f0r you 70 accomplish. That's what
! "hluh Is, and that's what Mitchell and
Kilrain are doing And they are doing
il arlistically, too.
That they are buffers" cannot be
+ gainsaid, but the report that they are
/ fighters has not been strengthened by
/ anything they have done DO Won know
what they remind ue Of lou have no
doubt seen big dog in charge Of a homo
and YOU have also seen how the lli,le
pups sneak ia Oh aim and try 10 get the
mOrscl They arc afraid 10 Jump in and
+ fght him Tor il 80 they content them
selves with making bluffs al the big dog
and the bone. and keep the resi- Of tie
dogs Interested. That is just what sulli-
van and kilrair and Dempsey remind
me Of. Sullivan and Dempsey are the
f big dogs, and their championships and
regulations ara their bones. Kilrain and
Mitchell are the little dogs that make q
living by making bluffs
/ do not wonder now that good sports
should become disguised with such &C
/ tons. Anybody who has any dirt in him
at all would sour on the windy men
from England After all the talk about
/ punching John L. into pulp, and after
all the talk about putting UP money, all
/ Mitchell and Kilrain did was 10 send a
man TO Colonel C0lvin, Of the CLppsr,
} a ten-time sport, ana Offer 10 put UP thu
/ $1,000 as cover for Sulli9ans. Then
they asked for 2 receipt Think OF il (.
\ receipt The idea of one sporting
man asking another for receipt, especi-
ally when the holder is Q man who knows
m0ie about such things than any man
+ living, and Who has held more money.
7 OF course il was refused and the
sports who represented the pseudo
champ ion withdrew the green5acks in q
dead rush
Thal started a discussion right away.
No one knows who had offered the
money, no one knew where he gOt il or
where he came from or where he went
He disappeared a. completely as facial
beauls does under shogt.am blows ia =
tWentJ -four foot circle Then Killain
went 70 Chicago 10 give exhibition
matches with Mitchell | saw Richard
L. Fox shortly after the withdrawal OF
the money, aud he denisl all knowledge.
Richard II not himself evidently There
was n tine when he was willing 20 do
anything IN order 10 bring about meet
ing, even 10 running the risk Of having
20 loob sideways through haliinch bars
in order 10 get a good view of anybody
In the corridor, but now he b as shy AS =
maidea upon whose view is bursting for
The INST time the fragile petals Of the
flower OF love he IS like a dove in IL
rain-stDrm lie seems afraid 10 come
ont OF his cage until the storm IS over Tor
fear OF getting his wings wet
There IS an impression, however
that Hlchald IS doing d little blufting
himself, and that, instead OF bIng En-
tirely free from having anything 10 do
with backing Kilrain, he is doing all the
backing Though Nj Clarke Maybe
Richarl u himself again Who knows
anyway the money was Withdrawn, and
II seemed as II all chances Of 20 between
the tW,3 were al all end
Now, however, comes q dispatch from
Boston, which has rekinded the smoul.
deiing life OF hope IN the breasts Of those
who love science aud muscle, and,
although | am not very sanguine, yet
there nav be something ln it, a. the
burglar innocently remarked as he took
the hinges of Of bank safes front door. !
Ii seems that when the CLDper refused
10 give a receipt Tor the money, some
one, presumably the mysterious Mr.. !
Clarke. sent telegram 10 Captain Cooke, |
OF the l0lice Nees, Boston, asking If he !
would sct as stakeholder, and if il was
the cusl ON for his paper 10 give receipts !
for money deposited. The answer said |
the Poli'e Meas had been in the habit Of I
giving receipts when they were asked /
for, but If they had 20 deal with people /
who were not good sportsmen enough to +
lose without going to law, the money /
was paid over on the referees order \
The closing sentence was, ave will hold
the stakes"
Kilraln was wired and asked By Mr.
Clarke" whom | am beginning 10 think
Is spelled Fox, what sort of a fight he
wanted with sullivan, and the reply is
alleged 10 have been ANY sort OF
fight Sullivan wants" Kilrain is brave
very brave at a distance and very reck.
less, too; and | honestly think he ought
to be awarded the championship-as
long distance fighter.
The boys who kept this part of the
world in a constant state of excitement
this year in the great struggle for the
pennant have caught the Kangaroo by
the hind legs, and he is theirs The first