Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-07
KILRAN FEEns.
Spring Chicken and Champagne is His Diet.
Charlie Mitchell Talks.


Charlie Mitchell Talks.
New ORLEANS, La, July 6.-At 3
o'clock KiIrain s party, consisting of
Charlie Mitchell, John Murphy, Pony
Moore, Mitehell's father in-law, For
ester Of Buffalo, and Joe Roche, were
driven to Moreau's restaurant, where
dinner had been ordered for them by
members of the Southern athletic club.
The party partook of a bountiful repast,
while Jake Kilrain, who had not eaten
anything for nearly twenty four hours
and who was hungry, ate a good
sized spring chicken, after which he
pathetically appealed to Mitchell, his
trainer, to be allowed a second one
After some parley a compromise was
made on a small slice broiled and the
whole thing washed down with three
glasses of champagne. While the party
was at dinner tremendous crowd
gathered on the sidewalks and in the
streets, and traffic was for time greatly
impeded. After dinner Kilrain, Mitchell,
Poney Moore and Joe Roche re-entered
their carriage and took drive
on the asphalt road on St.
Charles avenue to Carrollton and
return. When they reached the gymna-
SUM large majority of the members
were in waiting to receive them, and
Kilrain and Mitchell were introduced to
those present. Among the prominent
pugilists present were Dominick McCaf-
frey, Billy Madden and Professor Dono-
van. While the party were examining
the gymnasium Mitchell was interviewed.
He said Kilrain was in good condition,
weighed 200 pounds, measured fortY-two
inches around the chest and sixteen
inches around the biceps. His condition
was as good as a man could be gotten
into this hot weather. Kilrain had stood
the trip well, and all talk OF his having
drank at Cincinnati was false. Kllrain
had not been in the ring since
December 10, 1887, when he met
Jem Smith. Since then he
had gained experience and was in far
better condition than he then was. He
thought that there was big chance of
Kilrain s whipping Sullivan, notwith-
standing the talk about Kilrain s condi-
ton which was all besh. The best judge
of Kilrain 3 condition, he said, would be
Sullivan after they meet Monday
next. He (MitchelD was satisfied
with it now, and if Sullivan beat
him now he could do it any time here
dllGE. pIOpOSSu 10 give huTdlu JUST
enough exercise TO keep his blood in con-
dition and stimulate his appetite. With
regard to the challenge of Cleary to
fight in the same ring after the Sullivan
Kilrain fight, Mitchell said he
had repeatedly announced he would
engage in 10 more prize
fights as principal and after this mill
would never appear in the ring again.
Cleary would doubtless not have chal-
lenged him had lie not known of this
determination. He should remember
that he had twice met him (MitchelD in
the ring and that he had been knocked
out in fifteen minutes the first time and
in one round the second
DIR. Dougherty OF Philadelphia, Kill
rain S physician, stated that he was in
perfect condition and there was not the
least doubt of his winning the fight.
John Murphy, who is to be bottle
holder for Kilrain, said that Monday
next the greatest battle ever seen would
take place and that Kilrain would win.
He had both wind, was stronger, had a
longer reach and was as clever.
if not cleverer, than Sullivan.
Kilrain felt like a race horse, he
continued, but his quiet, reserved man
ner did not show it. He was an easy
going man, but he would be there when
the time came. If Mitchell had stood
sullivan s fight for three hours and if
teen minutes Kilrain could whip him, he
said
Dominiek Mccartney said he had come
hereto represent the New York World,
and was neutral. He would make an
unbiased report of the fight, and would
not express an opinion as to the probable
pugilism, nd has been referee N nearly