Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-08-15
SPORTING IpS.

Before leaving New York "Parson"
Davies, Jackson's manager, will try to
arrange q fourround glove contest be-
tween Kilrain and the black fellow, to
come off some time during December.
Jake Campbell OF Texas, who chal-
ienged Jake Kiirain to fight him the first
week in October, having received no re.
ply from Kilrain, proclaimed himself
champion of the world, and challenged
John L. Sullivan, Jem Smith, Charley
Mitchell and McCaffrey to fight the first
week in October, London prize ring rules
for any sum whatever.
When Pony Moore came to this coun-
try to see the sullivan. Kilrain fight he
claimed to have brought $4,000 from
Kilrain's hackers in England. Now these
same hackers would like to know what he
did with their money, as it Ia we'll
known fact that he only made one bet of
s ,0G0 with Barney Mcguire at the ring
during the fourteenth round, when he
thought Kilrain had slight show OF de-
festing Sullivan. Outside Of that no one
Knows of his placing any money on
either side, but he claims that he lost ii
all in backing Kilrain, just the same.
A dispatch to the New York Police
Gdsitte from London says: Frank P.
Slavin, the champion heavyweight pugil-
ist Of Australia, called at the Sporting
Life office to-day, posted el00, and is
sued challenge to fight John L. Sulli-
van, the American champion. according
to London prize ring rules, for Sl 1000,
the Police Gazette champion belt, and the
championship OF the world. SlaVin also
agrees to meet Jem Smith, Charley Nit
cheIl, or Peter jackson with gloves, or
L.. - osa1, a.
fight with bare knuchles for the cham
pionship of England. Slsvin stands 6
| feet l inch in height, weighs 203 pounds,
and appears to bs more robust and
better built man than Sullivan"
A London dispatch to the Pittsbur9
Dispatch says: "Advices from the Cape
of Good Hope state that Woolf Bendoff,
the well known pugiliss OF this city, and
| Jack Cooper, the champion of South
Africa, have been matched to fight with
the Raw uns, according to London prize
ring rules, for CA, 500 Bendoff's hackers
wagering 50, 500 to OooPor's e., 900. The
| fight is to be decided in September, and
it is creating considerable INTEREST,"
Jack Cooper, the champion of South
| Africa, arrived in New York in the fall Of
1884. On his arrival he offered TO fight
aay weightin America. He stands
8 feet u inches in height, weighs $50
| pounds, and is 81 years old. Shortly
after Cooper's arrival in this country hs
was matched to box Jim Fell for purse.
| The contest was to have been decided al
the Alhambra, New York, but the authori-
ties stopped it. On tie following morn
ing they fought in an uptown hall and
Fell won. Cooper proved he was
scientific, game pugilist. Woolt Bsndcff
is also well known in prize ring circles,
both in England and IN this country.
Neither is tirst-clsss, and it ia a mystery
to know how either could be matched to
fight for 9 900 let alone $4,000.
Peter JACKSON, the giant Australian
| pugilist is stopping at the Americus
House on Fourth avenue, where he will
remain until August goth, when the party
will sail for Europe, jackson is an IN
usually intelligent man and he spprsci-
stes keenly the prejudice against boxers
of his color in this country. On this
subject he said Monday: II have been
very kindly treated thus far in this coun-
try, particularly by the California Ath-
letic Club, which il certainly as square
an organization as exists anywhere in the
world. John L. Sullivan has spoken I'M
kindly of me several times, but 1 have
| never PAID any Rttentlon TO hls remarks.
He has said that he would not meet me
because OF my color. have never chal-
lenged him. 1 challenge nobody. If a
white man declines to meet me before he
is asked, why, it's none OF my business.
l consider Sullivan great fighter, and
he probably has no peer, but he is unjust
in abusing me. Color does not rub of,
and am sure that any OF these fighters
i "a IN nl
man il he thought he could win. A
fighter has no reason to refuse to meet
another, even il his color is not the same.
Why don't Mclaughlin or Garrison re-
fuse to ride in race because Isaac
Murphy has mount in it? They have
just as much right to bar color as have
the fighters. am an athlete and try to
be square man, but these fighters WAC
are afraid to meet 'niggers' make ne yssy
tired.n ''A-' III q s-s1s'