The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-12
THE GRRAE FIGHT.
Sullivan Unable to Knock Out
EugIand's Champion.
Observation-Disclosures.
A Graphic Description of the NIili.
An Exhibition OF Fair Play---Thc
Bostonians Surprised at the
Ncws---sullirnn's Defeat


plete surprise to everyone, but especial!
to Mitchell. Pony Moore, MITCHELL
iather.in.law, was wild with dcllgh
when the draw was declared. He threw
lhis arms around AIitchell's neck ant
kissed him. Mitchell was NIL smiles de
spite bungcd eyes and swollen temples
He Is great man forever, and deserves
the greatest credit. His triumph is un'
deniable, and he showed abundant
pluck. 1t is impossible to understand
how Sullivan can recover from the In
jury to his reputation. Ills defeat is
duo above all to his folly in altering his
style of fighting, replacing with caution
and diplomacy the daring slugger which
made him always victor In a few rounds.
He began by being cautious, playing
thus into Siitchcll's hands, and kept it
up until a driving rain and exposure
had set him trembling and robbed him
Of the vitality necessary to send his
slelpe-hammer like blows. Twice dur
ing the fight, he could certainly have
won on his old tactics by pressing his
man, but he did not do 20, fearing ap-
parently TO lay himself open and unwil-
ling to take any risks. Nogreater change
could be imagined. It was a bull imita-
ting fox. Toward the end Of the fight
Sullivnns friends saw the mistake and
urged him to go in and finish, but il was
then too late, for Sullivan no longer had
energy in him.
THE FIGHT ny ROUNDS.
When the men went at each other at
l2:47 o'clock the tnctics Of both soon be-
come evident. Sullivan's plan was to
wait for a chance to get his right on
Mitchell's neck and knock him sensclcss
with one blow. Mitchell, until the very
end, kept clear Of Sullivan's head, and
devoted all his skill to keeping his own
head out OF reach and getting his fist on
Sullivan's stomach. The fight bfgan in
the greatest silence and intense, excite
.ment. Sullivan led off with his left.
Mitchell tried body blow, but Sailed.
Sullivan landed lightly on Mitchcll's
head, who aimed n body blow again and
was stopped. John for the iint time let
go with both hands and knocked Mitch
ell down. The latter was carried to his
corner by his seconds, Baldock and Jack
Kilrlin. Sullivan did not go down and
walked to his corner. A lot of vancouver
ing and sparring at distance for an
opening was sandwiched in between the
blows. The four following rounds were
like the first, with variations. Sullivan.
went to the ground but twice on his
hands, fell backward once by slipping
md another time in wrestling. The CON
clusiOn OF the seventh round was
brought about by punishment inflicted
by Sullivan or BY MitChell's falls in run.
Mug away from his big adversary. In
the final round, when the draw was ar
ranged, Sullivan knocked Mitchell
down again and again, certainly not less
than fifteen times, but Mitchell showed
most wonderful ability to stand punish
ment.
FIRST BLOOD ron MITCHELL.
Sullivan finished the seventh round by
knocking Mitchell down with blow on
the left eve. In the seventh round,
MltchclpS nails scratched Sullivan's face
and brought blood. When Mitchell
claimed first blood all laughed, hut
Mitchell explained it was because he had
bet. In the ninth foul was claimed
by Mitchell going down to avoid punish.
mcnt, but sullivan declined TO press the
point. The referee warned Mitchell.
lT.Ig :, I,,,,, T,nI., ,ts,r, claimed ,lurin,,
the fight, but sullivan invariably dc.
Clarcd he would not pot coin that way,
and withdrew the claim made on his be-
half each time. In the fifteenth
round sullivan could have won
the battle had he wanted to foul.
The fourteenth concluded with an
awful right.handcr ON the temple, which
sent Mitchell down like u shot. lie
WIS knocked scnSclcss, and ON coming
up for the fifteenth had an enormous
bump on the side Of his head unl was
too shaky "a have withdoOd or escape
Sullivan had he rushed in his old way,
but sullivan let the chance 90 by. The
sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and
nineteenth rounds were a succession OF
knOckdowns, but the arm had not all OF
sullivan power back nl H. anu Mllchcli
kept coming up The thirty.sccond
round lasted twcnty.Onc minutes. After
that the rounds got ridiCulOusly long.
Mitchell kept rushing away from Sulli-
van, who could not get a hit, us he was
chilled by pclting rain andtOok to stand.
Ing in the middle Of the ring, while
Mitchell and Bonncll deliberately
wake darounl the edge Of the ring.
The ioriy-iourth, the last round, was a
farce. sullivan could not knock Mitch.
ell out, aud Mitchell could not finish up
Sullivan except by time, and when
Mitchcll's friends proposed 10 make il Il
draw il was accepted, though bitterly Op.
posed by Phillips, Sulliyan's hacker,
and Others OF his friends. The fight
lasted . h0urs and II minutes. At least
two hours Of daylight remained. The
fight wls beyond all question fair aud
square aud on its merits,
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