Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

only by the bookmakers but by all true sports
men. and beg to commend him to them In the
sincerest possible manner. 'Tell me ABOUT
that fight" / said, and here is his reply:
That mill was fairly managed from nrst 10
iast; there was no question raised concerning
IL at the time, and do not know that there mas
ever Deen since. 1t lasted two hours ana SIX
minutes; 30 rounds were fought, and Sayres
Went through % of them with one hand. MS
IIght having been disabled in the seventh
w nen the fight was over, Heenan was 80 Dllnd
ne mad to be led to bis carriage by his SECONDS.
FOR several minutes afterward Sayres sat on q
fow qbrnk5g and Rean1o5 eag
Jemmle Welsh. his two seconds: those VINO
knew Sayres well never doubted for moment
mat he would win the fight, but some OF his
packers had not the same confidence and they
proKe into the ring, so it was necessary
II draw. During the round when Heenan
tock the hug on Sayres, man who had lot OF
money on the fight became afraid OF losing 1t
ana cut the ropes. This was no other than
johnnie Carr; he Is alive now and is we'll
known swell mobsman. He isvery rich. but he
only got out of Courtland prison two years ago
a1ter serving long sentence.
sAYRES' EARLY FIGHTS.
MY first real days of friendship with Sayres
began when he was matched to fight Harry
Poulson. backed the latter at to 4 on, and
lost, but was so well pleased with the way Tom
fought that made match for him with Aaron
Jones. After that we were inseparable friends
TO the day of his death. He was the greatest
ngnter the world has ever produced, and until
l saw Jake Kilrain fight last summer with Jim
Smith on an island in the Seine, l never met
anywhere near SO good a man. In Sayres' day
man only reached the championship throne
Dy battles won not with gloves but with bare
nsts. lie was natural born fighter, never In
hurry to finish, and fairly illustrated the real
art oil self-defense. AS a sparrer with the
gloves he was as the saying goes. mot in the
hunt and have seen him bested at all points
IN such sertos by men whom he could have
whipped in the ring with one hand tied be,
hind his back. He copied from nobody, and
never spared while in training His cross
counters were simply terrific: he would get up
TO his man, baulk him twice-if he stood it
1all oack as If to his corner. then meet him and
put on the right He was the fairest fighter |
have ever seen, and I have seen scores and
scores Of such contests. have nothing in the
world to say against John Sullivan, hut the
1alrest fighterd have seen since the days OF
Tom Sayres is Jake Kirain. My friend had
secret that he put to use in training, which has
never been told by me to anyone. His great
strength lay in the fact that when in training
ne consumed an enormous quantity OF Russian
lslnglass. He used to take as much as quar-
ter OF an ounce in his morning tea, then as
much more after dinner, and then an additional
quantity when he went to bed"
THE MrTCHELL-sULLIvAN FIGHT.
The fight between Mitchell and Sullivan.
would never have taken place, so think, but
for John Gideon. He was one of those VINO
met the party at Amiens, where he soon saw
that there was likely to be no fight at all. So
he determined to return to Paris by the BIO P.
NJ. train, and was seated in railway carriage
with the representative of London sporting
paper, when a couele of gentlemen came up
and said: "You remarked this morning at
breakfast that If 1t had been left to You, you
could have brought this fight off to GER
tainty." "Yes," he replied, Il said that and
could have done So" Thereupon they intro
duced him to Sullivan and Mitchell and both
men agreed to leave the affair in his hands.
He told everybody quietly to leave Amiens the
next morning by the 6l0 train for Paris,
but to get off at Creil. He left that
same night. got to Creil at o'clock, and before
going to bed had found the spot on the train
ing grounds OF Baron Rothschild where the
fight actually took place. Had the men not
fought that Saturday, perhaps they would
never have done so. Sullivan would have re-
turned to America, where gold would continue
to shower upon him, and Mitchell would have
been ruined for lie, because everybody in
England would have said he was coward and
afraid to meet the American. So you see the
prosperity of the one and the at least tempor
ary downfall Of the other, was due to Uncle
John Gideon. We went together to see the
fight between Smith and Kilrain, and he never
tires of talking about that contest. He has
high admiration of Sullivan as a boxer and
quick fighter, but he thinks Kilrain a most
wonderful man. HENRY HAYNIE.