The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-19
A TALK WITH FRANK SLAYIN.
He Has Great Confidence in Himself and Ex-
poets to Do Up Joe McAuliffe.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.1
New YORK, Aug lS.LThe Herald's Lon
don correspondent has had quite q chat
with Siavin, who is now training for his
fight with Joe McAuliffe. Slavin was asked
his opinion of McAuliffe. 'McAuliffe is a
first class man." said he, land no one
knows it better thanI do. He is a taller
man than [ am and heavier man. Then
he's as strong as horse, and as for thighs,
never saw pair on any man as big as
his. In reach [ should judge we are about
equal, but l f1atter myself | have two
qualities he will find it hard to beat-my
qulckneSS and my hard hitting. | have
run 100 yards in less than eleven seconds
and as for hard hitting, well, ask anybody
who has seen me fight. Ask Mick Dooley
for instance" And Slavin smiled grimly
under his black mustache. ''Mick Dooley
is the chapI knocked out three or four years
ago with asfew of the same hard hits I'm
talking about Here's how l caught him,
just on the point of the jaw. And as he
spoke Slavin lunged forward with a terri
BILE Highlander straight from the shout
der
''Dooley was one of the cleveresS fighters
in Australia, and for the first seven rounds
he played with me as if | was a baby. In
those days | didn't know as much about
boxing as Pve learned since, and couldn't
get at him at all, whereas he was simply
pounding me all over the place. When we
came up for the eighth round the betting
was 100 to l against me, for my face was
like mass of blubber and both my eyes
were swollen shut. However l managed
somehow to get in on Mick three times and
then the ii h. was over. He didn't want
any more OF me, and 1 was declared the
victorn
Yes, but could you do that with Nc,
Auliffe. He has a fine record, you know. -
was asked of Slavin.
"a fine record, you say. Well, what is
his record! He has fought ten times to
finish and been beaten only once, by Peter
Jackson That's all right, | have fought
twenty-five times to finish and never
have been been beaten. In 1887 knocked
Harry Lang out in five and half rounds,
lighting with skin gloves. AT that time
Harry was champion of New Zealand, and
is to- day, in my opinion, as good fighter as
any man in England. He is the biggist,
toughest and ugliest chap ever tackled
and at one point he had me nearly beaten,
but just at the critical moment | managed
to let him have one of my good old upper
cuts on the stomach and doubled him up
That, by the way, is one Of my favorite
tricks. See, like this: Left, on the point
of the jaw, as feint, followed by plunge
with the right under the fellows RIBS
will you use this combination much on
McAuliffe.n
~ hope to- answered Slavin with a
broad grin. but suppose that depends
somewhat upon the kind of ombination
McAuliffe uses on me. It's pretty hard to
tell what you are going to do or how you
are going to fight until you face your man
in the ring. As far as l can make out,
though, from careful study of McAuliffe's
record, he will stand up like a man and take
his medicine and BECAME to the last. That
is the kind of a fighter | like to meet. None
of this smiling shaking hands when-you-
get through business for me- When
fight [ do fight and when the fight is over
there's got to be one of US who ism in
shape to shake hands or do anything else.u
And what do you consider the greatest
quality fighter can possess!'
.'Quickness by all means 1t will beat
science, or strength or superior height,
weight or reach. L count on this. as said
before, in meeting McAuliffe, and even ad-
hitting his reach is as long as mine, ex-
pect to get in on him before he can touch
me. In fact so confident am in my great
speed that when my man is on the point of
letting out at me with his left, / make no
guard at all with my right l don't need
to do anything like the training that is
necessary for McAuIiffe," said he, ''and
that accounts for my commencing couple
of weeks later than he. McAuliffe, as you
know, is carrying around with him couple
of stone of superfiuous fat, whereas I, on
the contrary, will, if anything, have to take
on weight before the fight. You see am
always in condition for the simple reason
that am always taking exercise"