Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-13
snLLIYAN-KlLRAIN.

A MYTHICAL Southern Syndicate Supposed
to Have Ten Thousand Dollars.
NEW ORLEANS, June 12.-Of late the
New York dispatches concerning the Sui
Ivan Kilrain fight have been making re-
Deated allusious to q Southern syndicate
which is supposed to be ready togive SlO,-
600 to have the fight take place at a point
10 be named by them. The most searching
inouiries among the sporting men oi TINS
citv have failed TO reveal the existence OF
the snpposed syndicate, and the general
balief ameng the best informed sporting
man hare is that there is no such syndicate.
Soma time ego Harry Maynard tele-
oranbed Budd Rensud, of this city, asking
him if he would give $4,000 for the
fgbt To this Mr.. Remand wired back
That he did not think that sum could be
be made out of the excursion at this season
of the wear, but at the same time he ex-
nressed his willingness to run the excur-
sion for Sullivan and Kilrain for ten per
cent. of the gross receipts
To this message he never received any
renIv. It is extremely improbable that all
this talk about Southern syndicate has
anv other foundation than the very slender
and unsatisfactory one given above. There
il no city in the South near which the
fight could take place without danger Of
interrnntiOn that could afford to give as
much for the excursion privileges as New
Orleans could, and it Is equally certain
that II anvbody here should depend on
making more than $1,000 out Of it he
Vonld lose money. A very large proper
t;on of the men who could be depended
nnon to pay high prices for tickets to at
tend prize fight will be too busy with
the horse races in the North and West to
oo anywhere to see prize fight.
Snortinq men here are astonished that
the nnOilists should have decided to stay
away from the South during their tlainlng'
II has not been too warm for training here
at apv time during the present summer,
and last season, while 900 in the shade was
seldom reached. the highest point touched
vas 97O Thus far the nights and early
mornings have been delightfully."- cool.
Ns,ther Of the Principals Expects to Fight
BALTIMORE, June 12.-ThOugh the date
set for the Kilraia-Sullivan fight is lees
than a month off, neither of the pugilists
i vet dowu to hard training. Mitchell,
,Sbo is to train Kilrain, is here now, stop
n;no with the fighter, at his home. Kill
rsin now weighs 2O5 pounds, and as $50 is
his fiOhtipg weight, he has got to come
down 25 pounds during the next three
waels He is not in as prime condition as
Ss sbould be within few weeks of the
1reatest FIGHT of his life. From the time
of his arrival from Europe until within a
Csw davs ago he WAS living high, and, 1t
Il said drinking considerable champagne
4e is now. however, become very
abstemious. and is doing club exer-
c;ss every dav, pounding the bag and run
ming and walking several miles, but he D., mas
not vet gone into actual training. The
;mnTession is growing here that there Will
49, - q hitch in the arrangements, and the
bottle not come off. Betting men are as
vst nIacinp very little faith in the talk ol
'bs nupisiists or their hackers. Kilrain
b;msslf said to-day that he has heard SC
inch doubt expressed about the matter
that he will not believe Sullivan means
bns;nsss until he gets into the ring with
him Still he does not propose to take
anv chances on Sullivan backing out Just
now. He is going into training ss soon Is
he can settle on a place, and If Sullivan
bscts down the world will know who II
tbe better man of the two.