Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-17
SPORTING GOSSIP.
Nete and Comment ON the DOings
OF ssthe Fancy.D

featherweight championship and purse
of 800, arrived in San Francisco, hav-
ing crossed the continent with Young
Mitchell AMI Billy Jordan. The papers
of the Bay City speak in high terms OF
the boy, and the impression seems very
general among the knowing. ones that
Tommy's name will be Dennis after The
two bentams meet.
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Still. YOU can't "most always generally
tell" Tommy is made OF cap i stuff
and is more tnan little bit OF general.
Arguinp. as Tom Flynn, of the Chronicle,
mcst learnedly does, from the fights each
of them has had in the past, is not al.
ways safe or satisfactory way of sizing
ND men. You cannot reason on pugil-
Jam by the methods of the syllogsm.
However neatly you fix your major"
and "minor" premises, you are apt to
fi1d your conclusion completely at fault.
Like all sports that do not come under
the category of "sure-shot games," there
is a glorious uncertainty about the ring
which often upsets the calculations of
the knowing ones. Ask Nose Gunst, if
you don't think so.
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Some of us are old enough to remem-
Der that terrible fight between Hesnan
and Sayers, which was 30 gamely con-
tested and 80 unsatisfactory in its issue,
and it will also be in the recollection Of
many how the Benecia Boy was finally
whipped by Tom King. Yet Tom King
was never dreamt of as having a chance
with Sayers. Even Jem Mace, who, not
withstanding his splendid eparring abil-
tiles and his persistent blufing of both
Heenan and Sayers, knew better than
anybody that he had no chance with
Sayers, whipped Tom King easily.
Now how would you 60 to work to make
pugiistic syllogism out of that a la
Thomas Emmett Flynn of the Chronicle? !?
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The only thing that makes US hopeful
that Warren will win, is that, somehow,
all the Eastern fighters that come here
meet their Waterloo on the Coast. Why
this is so, we do not pretend to say, but
certain it is that they don't cover them.
selves with much glory in their en-
counters in the Golden State.
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Young Mitchell, who has just made a
tour of the East and been accorded a
grand reception, earning golden opinions
and getting gold-headed canes, is, to our
middle-weight in America, and we have
day wearing the champion belt in that
class. Besides being an A l artist with
his ''mauleys," he is modest, courteous
and square young fellow.
The San Francisco Sporting Ne,CS, the
first number of which appeared on the
9Th inst, and which promises to be the
ideal organ of sport for the Coast, sug-
gests that our man Ellingsworth should
tackle Mike Lucie. No, thank you, gen.
tlenen. Ellingsworth wants pone of the
Marines "leavings." He offered over
and over again-or rather the Southern
California Athletic Association backed
him-to face the Marine, and he does
not now propose to have the man the
Marine whipped foisted off on him. We
want the San Francisco sports to under
stand that we take no back seat in this
business from them, and any time they
choose to trot out the best middleweight
they have got, man and money will be
found ready here to give them satisfac-
ton.
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By the way, speaking of Ellingsworth,
here is shabby bit of spite-work on the
part of Johnny Reagan. In letter to
member of the California Athletic Club,
be very gratuitously goes out of his way
to give slap to Joe. He says that
"there are twenty-five men in this city
(meaning New York We presume) who
could lick Ellingsworth. This is yel-
low-dog snarl on the part of Reagan
which Ellingsworth can easily afford to
despise. But We should above all things
like to see meeting between the two
men in the magic ring, just in order that
Johnny might get the conviction beaten
into his head that he, at any rate, is not
one of that fabulous twenty-five"
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Without prejudice, we venture to pre-
dict that Reagan will have got what the
Irishman called his "bellyful of good
sbatin'" when Mitchell is through with
him in October. Then Filings worth will,
we doubt not, stand ready to give Mitch
ell all the show he wants-the fight, of
course, to come off in this city.
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Warren and Griffin meet on the 2Sth,
Dempsey and La Blanche on August
9th, Killen and Joe McAuliffe on Sep.
tember 18th, Meyer and Jack McAuliffe
in the same month, and Reagan and
Mitchell in October. These events, to-
gether with the fights which are sure to
be arranged by our two local clubs here
in the course of the season, will keep the
interest in the manly art alive, and the
knowing ones busy in picking out the
winners. OF course we are not
overlooking the meeting next month
between Kilrain and Sullivan, nor
the fight between Charley Turner,
the colored Hercules of Stockton, and
another colored "pug," Wiley Evans,
which comes off on Wednesday evening
in San Francisco.
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A gentleman in whose judgment we
have every confidence gives the follow.
ing tips on these events in the order Of
mention: The winners will be, bar acci-
dents, Griffin, Dempsey, Killen. Jack
McAuliffe, Mitchell, Kilrain and Turner.
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It makes one sad to learn that, in spite
of his grand physique, the drain of dissi-
patton has brought Sullivan down to a
pitch when even his own friends decline
to put up money on him against Kilrain.
He is said to be now ga gray-headed old
man." In spite of all the ugliness of his
disposition, which always was an often
sively prominent feature in him, there is
no denying that, at his best, he was un-
questionably head and shoulders above
all his contemporaries. Indeed, we ques-