The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-29
AMONG THE BOXERS.
What Nay Follow the Arrival
Of Kilrain.
Sullivan . Mighty Good Man Yet
what KiIien's Challenge Amounts
te-Dempsey and Mitchell


anu C4ffkas l. Tf0FeFDkakly AttEtls even
sporting capital. However. If he viii
agree 70 pot himself into good hands
and do a nearly right as possible,
have no doubt that ten or twenty men
can be found who will be willing each
10 contribute 500 To stake on his
behsh This will enahle him 10 cover
kilrain's money, and certainly Jake
cannot command any greater sum.
Even il he could, he would be foolish
- ask fight for any greater amount
than $500 4 side. In fact. that j. too
much money 10 be pat up IN stakes.
] have ever noticed that when large
stakes were dependent upon the
result of fist fight the temptation for
crooked work Is almost irresistibie.
II John L. and Jake are matched.
there Is no doubt that kilrain Will
have much larger public following
than he wouid have had before be
went TO Europe, but il BIZ no means
follows that be 80. win the battle.
we all know now that sully's hibulous
habits have somewhat impaired his
Stauiipa. but there's the run-just how
much no one can tell To utilize an
old Joke. even If his constitution is
gone. there i no telling how much
strength and vitality there may be in
his bylaws. Then again. il report
does not lie. Kilrain has been enjoy ing
himself pretty well since he fought
Jem Smith. When Sullivan goes on
a spree be is so foolish that be throws
all restraint 10 the winds. and nine
times out OF ten he is guilty OF some
drunken freak that, as nv old dead
and gone Teutonic friend Jake Gard
ner used to say, stands him in the
papers" | don't mean to say that
Kilrain has indnlged in any such alco-
holic excuses, but he has been the CO.
favoIits of the English sporting world
with Charley Mitchell, and the pugi-
list who goes its gait for 3 season or so
is not likely 10 be greatly benefited by
the ordeal He ard Sullivan are about
the same age. He is not as quick on
his legs as Charley Mitchell is, nor is
he as cunning a fighter. Had Mitch
ell been only a shade less agile on his
pins than he was, he would have been
Knocked out in a few rounds. 1t is
even asserted that he was out in one
round. but that he got the benefit OF a
few seconds extra time TO round TO
in, and Jake is no better at taking
puni .hment than Mitchell showed
himself to be on this occasion. On the
other hand, kilrain is taller, heavier
man than Charley, longer in the
reach. and a much harder hitter. IL
Sullivan only straightens up and trains
in earnest, what an excitement q
match betHeea them will createl
don't think Pat killens challenge
TO ki.rain amounts 10 a hill OF beans,
and am iuclined to think it Is being
m aae. first, for the notoFiety it will
give Killen to have his name connected
at present with kilrain, and, secondly,
to give him a loophole through which
he can escape from a fight with Mike
Coniey. He affects to regard the
Ithaca giant as man with no repgta-
ton: hut the fact that Jem Smith. the
champion OF England. was willing 10
make match with Conley etfeetually
disposes OF that plea. kiilen must
either agree to light kilrain ac-
cording TO the London ring rules
or TO meet Conley. Unless he
takes either horn OF this Gilep.Jns
people will belieTe that hi, Challenges
mean bounce. " and not business.
The u-3f--n between Tom Lees and
!lm- -ly Carroll is off, as the following
liter shows
Arc. i6. 1883.
DEAR FRIEND. drop you line 10 in
form you that the match between Carroll
md Lees is off. after me engaging the the
alter aud ordering the bills Tom Lees
backed out OF H. He said there was no
money in it, and the weather was too
warm for him 20 get fit, aud Jimmy Car
rail- he heard. was good man with no
name. and IL he 90; bested he wanted to
get some money by IL. He said he went 70
see Dempsey, and he Dempsey promised
20 give him go when X got cool. ana
! from what he could learn Carroll was as
good a. Dempsey, with no name 50 ne
| Jeff for Boston tonight, and won't meet
Carroll. ani | win have to try 10 get some
other man to fight Carroll, but not on that
| date, as the manager objects 10 having any
one but Lees and Carroll. 50 have had u
couple Of weeks. both time aud money,
| thrown away with the champion of Aus
trslia socially be is q good fellow. He
| told me Dempsey is training, aud that
| Dempsey told him he would punch
| Mitchell in the nose the first time he meets
Mitchell Your friend, BILLY MADDEN.
II Dempsey told Lees that he in
tended to punch Charley Mitchell in
the nose the first time he met him. de-
pend upon it be meant Il, for Jack is a
man at his word. BY the way, Mitch
/ ell will not lie here with kirain, being
!
account of a little engagement with a
police mag istrate. growing out OF his
| ti cSence at "A prize tight there. IL is
| i ist PISS ibie that cunning Charley felt
| that Jake kilrain would be the star oi
the reception on the arrival OF the
| E,runa, and that he delayed his de-
parture IN order that. like the Just IN
| the 10 Il, he might have a boat o, his
I ,.-,.sf ,...ss-,,r.... Is,,, hare tsh3~f AZ
/ has 4 III. head. in more WAYS than one,
and there Is GOOD deal Of level surface
orr X. top. When be does come he
/ sill find that Jack Dempsey really
does mean = sight, and when he faces
him ia u Twenty -ioHr foot ring he vi
be ia w convinced that the Nonpareil
/ car eight a. few men in the worl,i can.
Cal Mccarthy and Eugene Horn
| berker viii meet in about two weeks
| and settle their little dispute The
friends OF the Harlem Dutehman say
| that he has been praCticiHg good deal
OF late with his rieht hand, and they
| believe THAI he will make Mccarthy
taste its honey montgomeEy carly ard
often when they meet P'iaps he
will and then, again, p'raps Charley
NAV have something 10 say ahout Il.
Frank Murphy and Johnnie Haviin
have agreed 10 let their stakes stand
and increase them another thousand
dollars. They viii fight again in less
than three weeks, when Havlin hopes
O. have his legs in better condition,
and Marl,hv feels sure that be VII
have hetfer luck ny the way, Havlia,
I Il wise. vii take A leaf ont Of hi- op-
| ponent's took. ami discard his fancy
/ full tength tights when next they
meet. Murphy's fighting drawers
were not a. handsome As Johnny 5
! skin tights. but they were vastly more
/ seryiccahc. They Cont0rgied close
/ u q this share Of the waist, and
/ consequently. dil not Zip down a.
I Hayliu'> a8d thus his leit Wa al
/ wavs ia IL proper place, Shile HAY
/ has VA. nearly ali the time down e
his hip joinss Then agaIa. y urg hy''
were cai of lst helow the knees, and
were a. looss and a. side there a. q
ehild's psntslettss They 90 81 h
easily roliesi up 70 his thighs, and had
hi. leg crguspci - Hav-ia's did thes
could hs hand rub. Ell. This wnn'C
have helpes ham greatly ia the sAsi
fight
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