Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-23
NIPPED IN THE BUD.
The Slavin-McAuliffe Fight
Prevented.
The Principals Placed Under
Arrest.
Great Indignation Among the Dis
appointed Sports.
The Pelican Club Blamed for Causing the
Trouble-An Adjournment to the
Continent Contemplated.
Associated Press Dispatches. |

Associated Press Dispatches.
LONDON, Sept. 22.-The Slavin-Mc-
Auliffe fight, at the Ormonde club, did
not come off tonight on account of the
interference of the authorities.
McAuliffe was arrested at his lodgings
in this city. Slavin was arrested on his
arrival from his training quarters, at
Dover.
Upon his arrival at the railway sta
ton, Slavin entered cab and was i'm
mediately placed under arrest. He was
conveyed quietly to Lambeth police sta
ton, were both prisoners were arraigned
and bound over to keep the peace, in
$4,000 each, to appear tomorrow.
Before the Magistrate.
In court, the police inspector, justify
ing the arrests, said the match was to be
genuine prize fight. He produced a
copy OF the articles, and said the gloves,
as exhibited in the window of sport
ing paper, were smaller than ordinary
gloves, and were thinned around the
knuckles.
The secretary OF the Ormonde club
said the gloves were ordinary boxing
gloves, the contest to be strictly in ac-
cordance with the Queensburry rules.
No breach of the law was intended. He
added that the police had been excited
to make the arrests by jealous enemies
of the club.
The inspector denied that the police
had been excited.
The magistrate directed the police to
produce the gloves before deciding as to
the illegality OF the fight. He added
that if, in the mean time, the prisoners
should venture to proceed with the
fight, he would deal with them sv-
eerely.
The suddenness OF the arrest prevented
the defense from obtaining counsel.
Tomorrow the legal question will be ar
gued. AT a meeting at the Ormonde
club tonight it was decided that if an
adverse decision is rendered the match
will be decided on the continent.
Fox Calls 1t an Outrage.
Richard K Fox, of New York, in an
interview denounced the arrest OF
Slavin and McAuliffe as an outrage. He
said it was not proposed to have a prize
with ordinary gloves, and there was no
reason why the police should interfere
Both men were in splendid condition
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the police had no reason to anticipate a
breach of peace. The fight was nothing
but what often occurs openly in England
and America.
The Pelican Club Blamed.
Temple, proprietor of the Ormonde
club, said he believed the management
of the Pelican club was at the bottom of
the matter. If the fight had been ar
ranged by the fashionable West End
club, the police would not have inter-
fered. In his opinion, the Pelicans
we're jealous, and he had expected all
along that they. would try to stop the
fight. He did not believe there was
anything "snide' about the fighters,
who were both anxious to see which
was the better man.
Rumors About the Fight.
New YORK, Sept pa special cable
to the Police Gazette says: Many ru-
mors are being circulated about the
fight. Billy Madden, McAuliffe's train
er claims that Slavin is afraid of the
American, and believes that he did not
want to meet him. A well known
American says. the arrest OF McAuliffe is
due to the fact that Slavin has trained
off, and those who backed
him had the American arrested
to save their money. Chrichton Temple,
of the Ormonde club, attributes Nc
Auliffe's arrest to the fact that the
Prince of Wales was going to attend the
fight. At a meeting of the Pelican club
today, Lord Lonsdale and Richard X.
Fox, of New York, decided that rather
than see the match fall through, they
would, if the authorities prevent it, put
up between them the same purse offered
by the Ormonde club, and bring the
fight off ON the continent.