The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-30
sULL1vAN's TRAVELS.

sULLrvAN'S TRAVELS
After that Sullivan Travelled through the
country offering prizes to any man he could
not stop" or knock senseless in four rounds
under Queensberry rules. Ills success was
marvellous.
In several trips through the country he
knocked out no less than sixty of the largest,
most powerful and slillful pugilists to be
found. For years, the man who could con-
trive, by hook or crook, to come out of four
round bout with him in possession of his
senses was regarded as a flstic hero worthy of
the most distinguished honors, second only to
those of the champion of champions. Tug
Wilson, by dint of falling at the slightest
touch, succeeded in lasting out four
rounds, and he went back to England with
more money for the performance than he had
made in the whole course of his life be-
fore. Often the police would stop contest
! before the four rounds were up, fearful that
his opponent would be killed or seriously in
| jured. This was done when he fought Charley
/ MITCHELL Alf Greenfield, Paddy Ryan and
| Professor Latin at Madison Square Garden.
| On his trips Sullivan made vast sums of
money 1t is estimated that nearly half
million of dollars have passed
through his hands since he began his
fstic career ten years ago. He was
feted and made much of everywhere by men
who admire great physical proves, and the
result was the common one with men of his
profession. He became addicted to the use
of strong drink, and many of his escapades
while under its influence were far from being
creditable to him. He broke his left arm a
couple of years ago in fight with Patsy
Cardiff, and for a while he was COM
PEELED to retire from the active work
of pugilism. Then opponents brought
controversy between him and Kilrain.
The latter challenged him to fight for the
championship, and Sullivan, owing to the
crippled condition of his arm, for the first
time in his life was compelled to decline the
invitation. Kilrain assumed the title of
champion of America" but his claim to it
under the circumstances was not generally
acknowledged.
SULLIVAN IN ENGLAND.
When his arm became we'll Sullivan made
a trip to England, and there attracted the
greatest attention ever paid pugilist He
was petted by lords of high degree, and the
Prince of Wales conversed with him for
nearly twenty minutes at boxing match at
the Pelican club. Unfortunately for his rep
utation, Sullivan permitted himself to be
drawn into a prize ring fight with Charley
Mitchell The contest took place near Chan
lilly, III France, over year ago. In the
third round, when Mitchell was all but
defeated, Sullivan so injured the biceps
muscle of his right arm that he was
unable to use it effectively thereafter; a cold,
dreary rain soon after set in which chilled
him to the marrow and made his teeth rat
tie like castanets. Towards the close of the
battle neither man was able to hurt the other
and eventually they made a draw of it. This
result of this fight led many Of Sullivan's
friends to believe that he was no longer the
pugilist he had been, and that his alcoholic
excuses had undermined his constitution.
He returned to the United States, and last
fall he was attacked by a complication of dis
orders which brought him to deaths door,
When he recovered he had partially lost
the use of one of his legs. He had friends,
however, who had faith in his recUperative
powers, and they backed him against Kilrain
for the match under consideration. At pres
ent he is training on the farm of Professor
William Muldoon, the champion Graeco-Ro-
man wrestler, near Belfast, in the western
part of New York state. Ee is reputed to be
doing remarkably WELL and his hackers think
that he will be as well, as quick and as strong
on the day of battle as he ever was. His OPP
ponents think otherwise, and the question
will be definitely settled when he and Kilrain
meet in what the lovers of boxing call 1.-THE |
squared circle"
J. 3. C'NIACoN') MCCORMICK