The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-08
AMONG THE FIGHTERS.

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AMONG THE FIGHTERS.
what some ar the Great s'uxiIi.ss Are
Doing.
John Lawrence Sullivan, champion Of
thc world il taking good care of himself,
and the prosniscuous challenges which
have lately been issued to him dom i'm
terfere i'm the slightest degree with his
sleep, says the pugilistic authority OF the
New York World. The big fellow In willing
tn meet jackson, Smith. Mct'airrcy. Sla-
vin. Kilrain or any living fighter who can
produce enough of what he calls ''collat."
''I'm out for the sugar." Says Sullivan.
'Let these fellows put mp the dust and
then see il ! am not sill i'm the arena"
He does not take as much stock i'm
Parson Davies wonderful AUS
tralian as most people do,
hut he offers tn meet jackson at the Cali
fornia Athletic club IL that pr sspero,Is or
S"iln,as,"n hn w"i a n.d u" he a p%ssS %I s ~ ,Ss
purse i'm the cases of Slavin, McCaffrey or
kilrain at $4,000, and ne confidently ex-
tet directly after the slight misunder-
standing which he had will tho Missis-
.ippgi~ "%,horities some month. ago II set
John L.: Kilrain a he will
his return from the south; Billy Carroll.
of Baltimore, says he will find $1,000 for
kilrain to net with thc big fellow on the
these things into consideration il looks as
though statement means some
thing. Sullivan says that u he and Kill
rain meet again the fight will not last so
long AS did the battle Of Richburg. On
the other hand. Kilrain says he will he i'm
orabIe occasion, and will do his best to let
the. big fellow know he is fighting.
and there are a rod many people who
with the champion. Slavin's manager
writes ;hat he will Pat Up Sio;oO9 On his
IL certainly does look as though Sullivan
was in for u light with somebody. To the
casual observer IL naturally appears that
situation at present, for he can dictate his
own terms; but surprising, for instance,
that the mississippi courts decide that the
Kilrain "a world OF good and they should
gracefully accept the invitation of remain
ing there u year? Perish the thought
George Godfrey, the colored pugilist,
who ruined the calculations Of most pug
ilistic experts by soundly thrashinR Jack
believed capable of whipping Sullivan.
has caught the European fever, and will
shortly sail away from these shores tn the
as. n bloomin' likely mug for "a black
un," and What "a jolly puncher =. is," il
h h., suits the tastes 81 the Bri'ishsrs:
much underestimate is proven by
his recent Victory: Only "a few
wise people, ana decidedly few at that,
gave him credit for what he showed Hmm
self to be-. He was considered out of the
race altogether, and odds Of two to ono
after he bested Godfrey, thai il was the
hardest light of his life, and Jackson has
whipped some men of great renown. The
BOstonian viii make money ON the other
side, without doubt, and il is not improb-
able that he will try to get another "go''
with the wonderful Australian. England
isa Mecca for fighters.
In the pugiiistic world Australia seems
tn tie gcttin more than her share, of the
honors. Right in the wake of the victories
that Billy Mccarthy of Melbourne shocked
ont kelleher. Su,iivau's friend and Bos-
toms second c,ioi "a pugilis', In n rounds.
There is no doubt now that the country
beyond the seas can produces fighters who
can hold their own IN any part OF the
men left yet who may teach these for
cigncrs n thing ar two about Yankee
tically whipped in the Nth round, but he
took his medicine like u little major, and
there is some consolation nm this for his
Tommy Warren, featherweight. who
built up n reputation by paying several
whipping them, has had the monumental
nerve to bring suit against the California
Athletic club to recover $500, which he
warrcn-Frank Murphy hippodrome.
Warren will not recover the $500. and he
VI ,h s" country, narS !" rGnii, :snSKs p aco nh,r h p"r,
had enough of him.
The puRilist from the smoky city, Pat
Farrell, is anxious To get ON u match with
the "Marine," and has po sted a forfeit of
$3.50 To show that he means business. Ii
lis safe to bet that he will not have an Oh
p~ortunity tn show La Blanche how well
| he can High within the next six months.
| The former follower of the sen is perfect
ly satisfied with himself at present, as
any man naturally should he who is max
ing money so fast that il IL "a burden To
carry IL tai the bank. La Blanche is not
IA Tn hRhf snI Ia. - sp. Ia
proper thing in declining to meet anybody
until he takes i'm enough of the coin al
the realm over his bar in San Francisco
to make him independent of the worlds