The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-03
PEER AND PUGILISTS.
COMING oIeKr BETWEEN sLA-
4A YIN AND N'AULlFES.
How the Match Was Arrsnssa-Lora
T,onsdaie's Part the Aussraman
+To,,Ia Not Fight IN the Pelican Ciuo
Rooms.

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r.lv 1a.-Among English SPORT
LoND ,hs absorbing topic just now Is
80 SIaviu- McArlide dEht' winch .aAe'
- AZ IRE roon:s Of sne orinoaoe Sluo' Al
4 - latter par. of Ssc'r1nosF OF ear! IA
n O,.obar There has assS. = Sfe9' ~
I 1900 $500 b.5ween tee o-Honce ana the
Jo1io rna latter, IS every body knows,
i9ii'-- -..,lIast club in London. with not
- '" lords and honorable elder sons
its members, while the Or
: composed OF merchants
hlonN0 -i,oss men, brokers and
o's ,o5Iv proportion of the leading book
Fvs~ since the visit OF Sullivan
,..;, no, rivalry hs:wsen the two
Il ,i,..;o,K. aus ~nsu :ns negotiations
u -, o.trssu tne Australian cham
~ - IN. 'Mission Boy were opened,
plon % ~. :ptsDaoE * chs Pelicans TO
en-. .noa Coz Themselves. renting
SaE'-.r1sian OF the negotiations, the nVe!y
Tue - ,N.,,.,aap "Nuuc" Wallace and Dixon
oaeVe rs 90 A. the Pelican Club rooms, still
fnrtber rousing the Jealousy Oh the Ut
mon1es ,!- .tota vvban on Nav
% ASIHS,,lifFa's challenge to fight Sullivan,
S;,-ain Cr Slsvin hanging ire, ana none
n 10 o. tSrse being in haste apparently TO
ca,,er his deposlts, Slavln issued cnallehge
toanv of the three, to hghU LOT 4oOO
. side At the Pelican club, or 10 meet oulil-
- on the continent and light IN SIX
'.on,,+Ss for 81. 900 AMI the championship OF
~ ,vorld McAuliffe at once cabled his
oor+snce q the challenge. just here the
0rmnnde club showed its enterprise by
ofFsrinr 81 900 to have the match between
tbn men come off at its rooms. For the
first time the noble feIicanS Aounu 'heiii-
selyes out in the cold.
SCI 81 onsdale of Beatrice Cameron fame,
ono Of the leading spirits of the Pelican, had
octa,i for his club in the negotiations, ana
bed had several meetings with Billy Mad
den the trainer of Slavin, with regard to
having the match at the Pelican rooms.
Madden was anxious that It should take
rIaca there, and 50 also were the friends OF
WcAnliffe. but Slavin stood out for the
0rmondes and the bigger money. Mr..
C,richton Temple representing the
Ormondes, wrote offeriLg to put up a
purse Of $1,000. pay the whole
md forfeit $500 in the
avapt Of interruption or unfair play. This
offer was commuuited to Lord Donsdale,
Who Immediately advised Madden to close
with it. since Slavin's party had absolutely
refused to box at the Pelican. Lord Ions
dale. it should lee explained in justice to that
bigh-fying British peer who seems to have
a good deal o: the spirit OF the Marquis OF
OGeensberry il hin, had even offered to
take ND the management of the affair and
to give purse if the fight came off at the
Pelican, but all in vain.
The sportsmanlike course adopted by
Iousdae in the matter has done much to
smooth over what might otherwise have
been a decidedly unpleasant episode
4Il,hc xSyha bn fcrhf
does come off the attendance will be a large
and doubtless very distinguished one.
L,onsdale will be there, the rich business
men of the richest city in the world will be
fully represented, and there will be a big
delegation Of sports from Ireland present
by invitation Of the club. The betting has
already begun, and while both men
have strong friends it is hard to say which
is really the favorite, although it looks like
s Savin. The Australian will be managed
and trained by John Lewis, while Billy
Madden, the little man who discovered and
trained John L. sullivan before his fights
with Flood and Ryan, will do the same for
NcAuliffe. Both the principals are exceed
iugly game men and hard fighters, and it is
expected that the mill will be character
lied by some pretty heavy hitting, which
is just to the taste of the British prize
ring goers, who were in ectasies over
the amount of gore spilled at the
recent Walace-Dixon fight. McAuliffe is
an aggressive fighter and generally takes
the initiative IN his battles Slavin is
known as heavy slugger, but he
will need to employ al his sci
ence and strength when he faces
W the EMISSION Boy" who has the ad-
vantage in weight and hight, being the
biggest man IN the ring since the days of
OBaldwln, the Irish giant. He stands 6
feet aud inches in his stocking feet and
tips the beam at 225 pounds, w1ile Slavin is
feet ~ inches and weighs 80 pounds
McAulitfe learned to box at the Mission
Club at San Francisco, and he tells a rather
amusing story Of the way be came to win
his first laurels as a hard hitter One of
the club men was noted bully who. when
In his cups delighted to terrorize the timid
members BY threats of whipping. On
one occasion he began his bluff game while
Joe was present and the latter told him to
come around when he was sober and he
would be accommodated. Nothing 10th,
the fellow agreed, and at the appointed
n2ur ne was on hand to whip McAuliffe.
ne stripped and prepared to anninilate
11im, while the latter. merely taking off
ns coat, knocked out the bigger
man with straight blow on
tne point of the chin. His friends urged
nm to 90 to fighting professionally after
T I ana ne did. His next opponent was
Jack Brady, the heavyweight CHAMPION of
III 'S(Ns "hOAAi u0 whipped easily.
O0ner noted fighters were met and van
9ulshed, including Paddy Ryan. whom he
81 shocked out in three rounds without sus-
Talnl1g scratch. He afterward defeated
FRANK Glover, of Chicago, in forty-nine
ROUNDS and Nike Conley, of Ashland. Wis.
potn before the California Athletic club. He
LAS never been beaten except by Peter
jackson, the colored champion, and it is
asserted by McAuliffes friends that he was
81 guy OF condition when that fight occurred
81 nent. Ia" oPpo-
oI IL Is remarked by sporting men here that
r r,tnost al the pugilists seem to be shy OF
s. IIa.JItIng lhe victorious negro. Slavin fought
81 S Soh once to a draw and thereafter
Co. I' 10 have imbibed wholesome respect
III b Gt us proves, for he forfeited twice to
n n-aI SINCE More lately he tried to get on
N'a M On with jackson, but failed.
s. liz Aulltfe, the London sports remark. is
q Iti. very nearly on the model of Sullivan,
RoIL.ougn not perhaps so firmly knit as the
q c DUS.ou boy. Slavin is perhaps the more
fHI ~ though the lighter man of the two
i uleasures 81 inches around the chest and
orI1, o6 Sne primesI age for fighting, being
q ~ 80 Lake Sullivan, he was at one time
co TIacksmith but he quit that calling to be-
d sor lll9 god digger. AT the mines he won
q frs notorle5y as a pedestrian. but-