Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
AN INTERESTING CRITICISM.

Henry Sampson Talks in Very Strong Terms
About the SIavin- -McAuliffe Affair.
Henry Sampson, in the London Referee, has
the following to say about the SlavIn-McAu-
life battle and the contestants trial:
III the evidence for the defence is to be be-
lieved glove fight between two or the biggest
and strongest men that ever fought or spared
for money, which ended by one of the combat
ants being ESQ all the reports agreed) unaple
to come again after about four minutes hight
ing was one of the milk-mildest exhibitions
ever given-in short a kindly and philanthToplc
display of how not to hurt one another. with
every desire to believe all am told. cant un-
derstand-I can't begin to understand-how IL
was if Slavin and McAuhtfe did not hurt one
another and did not intend to hurt one anotner
they had FL ,0e0 guaranteed them: now
it is sufficient fools are to be iounG
even in London, where fools aoouna
and have much money, to pay between tlO
and $50 apiece for the privilege of seeing two
men thus endeavoring not to hsrm eacn oIne!.
There is one fool among these OF Whoni ~ ls
said-said openly, and not whlspered-that
{ 900 will not cover his expenses IN connectoh
with this novel boxing match; as, however, ne
is perhaps the greatest 1ooi that even spur,
that greatest of all developers of fools, has
heen able to produce so far. il may be tnat ne
doesn't count for much when reckoning up the
cOmmoner sorts of folly. One w. Madden,Who
brought McAuliffe over here. and who Is some
times described as his hacker, testified that
MA. was in no way hurt, and that he could
have easily continued the fight at the cxplra-
tion of the allotted seconds II 1t
had not been that Madden had discov-
cred thus early that Slavin was much
the better boxer. This piece of sworn evidence
must strike those old-timers that still remember
fights. and remember how they used to be
fought, as somewhat singular. wonder now:
if Madden had flyer on a man IN real
straight fight, aud it only just dawned on
Madden that his man was likely to be beaten,
what Madden would do under the changed clr-
cumstances In direct conflict with what
Madden now says is to be found in the fact that
all the papers that gave special descriptions OF
the battle described McAuliife as having much
the best of the first round, although Madden
seems to have known he had no show almost at
the very beginning of the second. Very
extraordinary this, isn't it, my friends, the
experts of boxing? The solution of the puzzle
is suppose, that Madden knew McA. could
fight very well until his opponent began
10 bir him. A nice sort of man to fight Tor
81 600 this McAuliffei Madden wouldn't have
been-be couldn't have been-in such hurry
to throw I'D the sponge for his big baby II he
had really been his hacker and Slavin and Nc
AulifFe had been fighting in earnest for tl,OUO.
the prize TO go to the man who lasted the longer.
No not even if they had really been fghLIng
for only a flyer of money ystaked-money staked
as distinguished from money given win view
of getting double the amount IN gate from
greenhorns and noodles. l wonder what is now
thought of these mock boxing shows by the
pulIs and pigeons who have contributed the
major part during the last two or three years OF
a series of overgrown cutting-up stakes"