The evening world., 1889-07-04
OFF FOE THE BATTLE FIELD.
A LARGE NUraER OF SPORTS BOUND FOR
THE BIG FIGHT.

Jimmy Carroll and Joe EuInE-worth Are
Matched ut LRst-Greek George and
Nicholas MaiusO TO Wrcstlc-John l.. Ii
Be-ieRcd with Challenges in Anticipa-
tion of His winning the Fight.
Gotham has been pretty we'll cleared of her
class of sporting men interested in pugilism.
Most of them are bound for the big fight.
None Of the sports anticipate any difficulty in
bringing off the match, in spite of the howl
of protest and warning sent up by
the Governors of the States wherein the
fight might occur. The accusation by some
of Sullivan's more hot-headed adherents,
that Kilraln's party is at the bottom of the
effort to prevent a meeting, Is unjust. The
State governments must necessarily frown
upon a prize-tight; but it will be rather diff
cult for them TO enforce their edicts forbid
ding it. on account of the large extent of ter
ritory that must be guarded and the thinly
settled condition of the country.
Sullivan declares that lie is in finer trim
than ever: And this despite the. statements
of physicians who attended him in his COM
paratively recent illness. The doctors say
that il takes q man three years to recover
from the effects of typhoid fever and say that
Johns legs will be apt TO give out. To offset
lIlb llC pulllNul . Cllh huOlo iOlN-bnApl'H6
performances.
Jimmy Carroll yesterday received n letter
from the Southern California Athletic Gu
Offering q Al ,50O purse for q fight between
him and Joe Ellingsworth, 81, 900 TO the
winner. $500 to the loser. Jimmy immedi-
ately telegraphed his willingness to meet
EllinRsworth. The battle will probably occur
some time in August.
MI M. r..1l Cl,E, ,,slI u;,o - ,..o 60,
Frank Bosworth and Arthur Upham to battle
for. The Club has been looking for II man
to meet Bosworth for some time. The fight
will take place the first or second week i'll
August at 1856 pounds. Upham claims to have
done wonders in Connecticut and Mussa-
chusetts fights.
The wrestling match between Greek George
and Nicholas Romano Maluso, will occur
about the 18th inst. III New York or Brook
Ign, the exact locality having not yet been
decided on.
The opinion of California sporting men is
that the much mooted question of the worlds
championship lies between Peter jackson
and the winner of the Kilra,n Sullivan fight.
which, they think, will be Sullivan.
There seems to be very little rest for the
weary. Poor JOIN l.. has already q swarm
of challengers gathering at his heels III view
of n possible victory over Jake, of Baltimore.
Here is Mr.. Pony" Moore anxious TO match
Charley Mitchell again against Sullivan in
case the latter vanquishes Kilrain.
This means that - the boxing champion of
England, :" with the accent on the " boxing"
will foreswear his reiterated declaration that
he will engage In no more finish fights. Com
ing from such an excellent authority, it must
be true. Chnrley's .papa-in-law does not
make assertions of this kind merely for the
sake of talking.
Pony" Moore is not an Englishman, as
generally supposed. He is an American
born and bred, and a New Yorker at that,
He was born In q house on Barrow street,
and did not settle in England until long after
he had acquired q competence in the negro
minstrel line. This is how he made his
money not by horse racing as commonly
believed. Judicious real-es!ate investments
realized very handsome profit on the ducats
earned by the donn.ng of burnt cork. And
now PONY " has an " estate" baronial in
magnifcence within Alblon's borders, and is
a leader among the swell English sporting
set.
In the rnce for the Sharpless Cup to-dpy on
the Schuylkill, the Cornell. Pennsylvania,
Crescent and Paramount Fights meet. Yale
has withdrawn. AS the course is but n mile
and-a-half in length it seems probable that
Yale feared to risk defeat at the hands of pre-
sumably less skilful rivals.
Yale's big crew, doubtless, could vanquish
the lighter Comedians in a four-mile contest,
but in n race affording opportunity for a big
burst of speed the boys from Ithaca are very
speedy indeed. Had not Yale men asserted
so positively that the Elm City cracks would
enter for the Sharpless Cup. their withdrawal
could be attributed to a natural desire to
break training " after their eight months
continuous rigid work.
But Pennsylvania. which has q very
- gritty" crew. will have two chances of
redeemlng her defeats on the Thames for
besides the Sharpless Gun race to-day. there
is the struggle for the Childs Cup tomorrow.
The talked Of trip to England next year of
a college athletic team to compete with the
redoubtable athletes of Oxford and Cam
bridge merits encouragement. In the field
meetings this year our college athletes have
displayed such prowess that their success
abroad ought to be very marked. A COM
parison by actual contest between English
and American collegians would be highly
interesting. May the scheme materialize.
The half-mile race to-day at the Prospect
Harriers' games ought TO be rather interest
ing, md no doubt this event alone will draw
a crowd to Washington Park. Tommy Con-
neff Is at scratch. Banks, DevereuX and
Corbett, with handicap allowances, should
make the finish exciting.