The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-07-11

which iloorcd him, and for q moment lao
was thought 10 be aenseloss,
KllrnIn Game ~ Smiling.
In the twonty-oighth round Kilraln
came up m Hing 10 the scratch. EASY,
little fellow" no remarked 10 Sullivan
aa the latter gave him q stinger In the
right cheek and an equally strong dcllv-
cry In the left riba Several more blows
wore exchanged and ltIlrain had to drop
again The same story was now repeated
round after round, the excited crowd
yelling d0rlsiyely aud suggesting that
Jake ought 10 fight only woman, IL
was apparent that Klrain was deter.
mined 20 be gam0 80 long ~ ho could
keep on his legs, but the crowd was not
In q humor 10 admire his courage and
brute tenaoity, Now and again he would
manage 10 got IN some blows ON various
parts Of Sulllvan'a anatomy But he
invariably dropped when II seemed cor
tain that retaliation was inevitable,
In the thlrty-fourth round q blow be.
hind and under the right ear fclled XII
rain like an OK. Thore was some good
fighting In the thirty,Afth round, XII
rain getting two tremendous upper cuts
that made the occupants Of the stand
give vent TO prolonged ooh In the
thirty.siXth and thirty.seycnth rounds
kilrain walked around too much for
Sulliyon'e patience and n thousand voices
In the crowd yelled coward
Kliraln AFRAID of Punishment.
II was light touches on both sides,
walk Nrounda, clinchng and dropping on
the part Of Kilrnin from now on, Sulli.
van evidently piticd his opponent, for
times without number he gently pushed
him away with his open hands, when he
could have delivered blows that would
have settled the mill then and there, In
the thirty-oighth round the referee again
insisted that Kilr0in should fight and
not walk around, Donohue objected,
but the spectators howled him down,
Sullivan delivered two terrific body
blows in this round and u third In the
breast that sent Kilrain two feet bnck'
ward In the ropes, where he fell In q
heap, In the forty-fourth round, when
Sullivan began to yomit, the kllrOinites
shouted 20 their man 10 go for sullivan
In the belly. Kilrain could not be per
suaded, however, 10 put up his fists un-
I'll his opponent had Indicated his readi.
ness 10 proceed, In return for his con-
siderntion he got blow In the neck that
felled him Ike an OK. So II went on
round nftor round, every one ending In
Kilraln going down. In the afty.fourth
round Kilrain succeeded In
Getting ON suliIvan's Face,
But tho latter got Kilrain's head in
chancory and pummellcd him TO his
hearts content The next round ended
by KiliUin falling 20 the ground com.
plctely exhausted while endeayoring 20
spar. kilrain was knocked down In the
sixticth round, In the sixty.second he
wound his arms around Sullivan until
the referee was forced 10 tell him to
break away and Sullivan himself urged
Jake TO be u man, In the sixty.third he
received u telling blow just under the
heart, and IN the sixty.flfth Sullivan
went at him with u rush. In the next
round the Boston boy forced him against
the ropes and banged him right and left,
In the sixty.sevonth and sixty-ninth
rounds he knocked him under the ropes,
while In the Exty.eighth he sent in two
frightful upper cuts While falling in
lllV hlANl7Hllln lNNulu hlIUlu NUNkUN
hold Of Sullivan's legs Somebody In
the crowd shouted "lIe's dying, John;
hit him hard Sullivans only response
was 10 turn toward the direction from
which the voice came with look of
disgust, From this on TO the seventy
fourth round Klrain dropped ut the
slightest movement Of Sulliyan's fist, A
breast blow felled him In the seventy
fifth and when time was next called ho
failed 10 rise.
ISilran Anxious to Keep the Fight Up.
Kilrain was toeing the scratch when
Donovan threw up the sponge. He pro.
tested that he was able TO continue but
Donovan suid there was no sense In
standing up 10 be knocked down. The
defeated man was bundled up and hur.
rlod 10 n carriage and driven to the train,
Ho bitterly bemoaned his fate and actu-
ally wept, All his friends stuck to him
and cheered him up except Mitchell,
who seemed deeply chagrined, and held
aloof. Sullivan and his party also hur-
ried TO the train in carriage, and the
two parties were soon on their way to
New Orleans
Kilrain seemed 10 suffer more ment-
ally than physically. He said he had
Sullivan whipped twice, but was unable
to follow up his advantage. He said he
could not understand what was the mat
ter He seemed able 10 stand punish
ment, bat could not inhict any. He felt
almost as II he had been drugged He
could see that Sullivan did not feel his
blows. Donovan, Stevenson and others
sponged Kilrain and gave him draughts
OF whisky and water while he was talk
ing. They comforted him as much os
possible, and though they had every rea-
son to feel blue over the result they did
not lot him notice their regret Dono.
van said TO the reporter that the hcatand
exercise had done more than the blows
TO exhaust Kilrain.
WIN Meet sullivan Again.
Kilrains faoe did not betray the great
punishment he had received, He had a
cut under the nose, across both lips and