Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-06-30
TWO CHAMPIONS.
THB LIY2S AID BATTLES Oh SULLIVAN
AND KIRAlN
Szr,ss, Of ts Nr Who VII F.gl. 1r tie Great
P-glsa. Prs Mex. M,-a-81l Have
Wu Many Contests.


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John J.. Sullivan gives the following In
teresdng account Of his rise TO prominenes
as q champion in the fstic arr:
CIV first formal match was with old
Joe Goes, nine years ago this spring. Be
fore that I had number Of set-toOs with
men of lesser reputation, and had bssted
them an without arg trouble. COmmanc-
ing with Ccss, have met an Corners and
have never beer defeated, and do not ex-
nae. to be. ualess I shoold keep in the
ring until am as old as Cess was at thar
time Joe was moi. too Old t0 make good
fgbt lie wae man of fine physique, a
good boxer AID i0l of gril and endurance
bur. iu su entirely t7ieldly way, Invent for
him as bard Gs I vas able tO. and 10 t0ok
ONLY three minutes To- 10 him up.
Son after the fight with Goss, Sullivan
had a 20 with Gsor2e Rookie in New York
and detested him In seven minutes. The
following wiuter be went TO Cincinnati
aud fought John Donaldson for purse OF
$500. This took ten rounds and a total Of
twenty minutes. A few weeks later be
knocked ont Steve Toylor liz short order
az Harry HIPS in New York. BY thas
time he hsd begun to attract attention,
and q regular fight was arranged between
him and John Flood, for q purse Of ST., 600
with kid gloves. Sullivan trained care
fully for t1e f-ht, meaning To- win If pos
gble The hatLie occurred on O barge IN
the Hudson River, near I0nkers, 10 May.
1--i. and was fnished 10 ei hi rounds with
"a total OF sixteen minutes OF sctaal
fighting. Alter the fight with Flood,
Sallivsa ws-t cn au exhibition tour. AT
each place l rd-r Of 500 was made 90 The
man who cou.d s-ard before hlm tO- four
rounds ritl regulation gloves A number
accented tle offer. tll le stopped them
all inside Cf three rounds Finally bait
tie was arranged with the champion OF
Ame-ice, Psdoy Ryan. The stakes were
$1,000 and how Che light resulted every
body knows TO took place in lo-2 at
Mississippi City, Miss, Sullivan had Ryan
whipped f-cm tie start aud it took only
nine rounds and ten minutes OF
actual lighting to Wrss,le The
championship from him. After his
light with Ryan Sullivan agreed
10 stop any man in the world in
four rounds With gloves OF forfeit 81 000
The irst man who accepted The offer was
Jimmy Elliott. They met at Washington
Park. New York City, July q 1SS2 and
before the third round was over Elliott
was knocked senseless. Then Richard X.
Fox induced Tug Wilson to come from
Leicester, Eng. to face the champion.
They met at Madison Square Garden, on
July III. Wilson stayed with him the four
rounds by running away, falling down
and getting out of reach. The
receipts were $40 900 and Wilson got
halle them. On March 10, 1882 q iesti-
monial benefit was rendered Sullivan at
Mechanics Building, In Boston, nc which
fifteen thousand people were present. and
which Melted him 500. 900. I'm the follow
ing May he met Charlie Mitchell 10 a four
round glove contest, at Madison Square
Garden. New York BE had Mitchell
whipped when Captain Williams stopped
the fight at The beginning of the third
round On August 2 he met Herbert
Slade at the same place and had no trouble
in putting him to sleep in three rounds.
In September, 1--3, Sullivan started ont
on tour ofthe country, making a stand
ing offer Of 81 600 TO- the man Who could
stand before him for four three-mnnte
rounds with soft gloves. On this tour be
met some fifty different men and be5ted
them an. Or November To-. 1884, he and
John r. Latin had a 20 10 Madison Square
Garden for the entire gate receipts Sulu-
van knocked Lahin out of time in three
rounds. The next week, at the same place,
he met ALI Greenfield, Of Birmingham,
Eng. another of FOx's impOrtatiOus. He
had him whipped when the police stopped
them In the second round, and the ref
cree awarded Sullivan the fight. ln
January, 1885, he again met Greenfield
In Boston. and whipped him IN four
rounds A week later, Paddy Ryan ana
Sullivan again faced each other 10 Madison
Square Garden They had only been box
ing thirty seconds when the police took 1t
upon themselves TO take part IN the atfair
and compelled them 90 stop, and the match
was therefore called q draw. On June, lSS7,
the champion met Jack Burke in Chicago,
and though be was not well at the time
knocked him out in the nth round. Then
Domin ok McCafrey challenged him TO a
public six-r0und battle with gloves. They
met at Chester Park. Cincinnati. McCat-
frey saved himself from o Knockout by
falling without being hit and huggiug al
De could; but the referee awarded Sullivan
the fight Before that McCstirey had
bested Charlie Mitchell in "a tOur-round
contest For the next year or so Sullivan
did little sparring, travelling most of the
time with q theatrical company. In 1856
be agaiu started out 90 a sparring tour Of
the United States The first man whom
De met was Frank Herald; he put him to
sleep in one round in Allegheny City.
In November of that year be
knocked out Paddy Ryan in San
Francisco. In January, 1887, he had
q six-r0und contest with Patsy Cardiff at
Minneapolis. lie broke his right wrist in
the first round, but stayed with Car
dih the remaining i've, and had the best
of it when The fight was declared a draw.
Sulivan's broken wrist laid him up for
several months; after it was entirely
healed be sgain went on the road, giving
exhibitions. A year or so ago be again
went 20 England and gave exhibitions
there. i'm March, of last year, be met
Charlie Mitchell n a bare-ist contest in
France. sullivan injured his right arm
so badly early In the igh. that it was
practically disabled; bat Mitchell could
not knock him ont, and the fight was
finally declared q draw.