The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-23
FAILED TO MEET.
Police Prevent the MCAulide-
SlaVin Fight.
Both Men Placed Under Heavy Bonds TO
Keep the Peace.
An Agreement TO Have the Battle Take Place
Somewhere on The COHtinent-DiS-
guSted Sports.
Special Dispatches to THE MOnx1xe CALL

LONDON, Sept 22.-SIavin and McAuliffe
have been arrested. McAuliffe was arrested
at his lodgings in this city.
Upon his arrival at the railway station
from his training quarters at Dover, Slavin
entered cab and was Immediately placed
under arrest. He was conveyed quietly to
Lambeth Police Station, where he and Nc
Auliffe were arraigned and bound over in
1900 TO keep the peace, each to appear to-
morrow.
Richard K. Fox of New York, in an inter-
view, denounced the arrest of Slavin and
NcAuliffe as an outrage. He said it was no.
proposed to have a prize-fght, but only a
mjted round contest with ordinary gloves,
and there was no reason why the police
should interfere Both men were in splen-
did condition and anxious to have fair con-
test and the police had no reason to antici-
pate a breach of the peace. The fight was
nothing but what often occurs openly in
England and America.
Temple, the proprietor of the 0rmOnde
Club, said he believed the management of
The Pelican Club was at the bottom of the
matter. If the fight had been arranged by
the fashionable West End club the police
" uid have interfered. In his opinion
ile Peicans were jealous, and he had ex-
pected all along that they would try to stop
the fight. He did not believe there was any
thing "snide" about the two fighters, who
we're both anxious TO see which was the bet
ter man.
In court the police inspector, justifying
the arrests, said the match was to be
rft,a III fTr,t 10 n 0f
the articles and said the gloves, as exhibited
in the windows of sporting paper, were
smaller than tile ordinary gloves AMI were
thnned around the knuckleS.
The Secretary of the Ormonde Club said
the gloves were ordinary boxing-sloves and
the contest was to be in accordance with the
Queensberry rules. No breach of the law
was intended. He added that the police
had been melted to make the arrests by
Jealous enemies OF the club.
The inspector denied that the police had
been melted to the act. The magistrate
directed the police to produce the gloves
before finally deciding as 10 the iliegality OF
the fight. He added If. IN the meantime,
the prisoners should venture 10 proceed
with the fight, he would deal with them
severely.
The suddenness of the arrests prevented
the defense from obtaining counsel. To-
morrow the legal question will be argued.
night it was decided, if an adverse decision
was rendered, that the match should be de-
cded on BE- Continent.
INV \ Z III, Sept. 22.-Great excitement
Is caused S,re among the sporting men by
the news OF the arrest of Slavin and Nc
Auliffe. There was. according to sporting
papers, more money wagered on the result
than upon any preceding fstic match. No
Hstch has attracted such attention since
the Sulllyan-kilrain affair. Certain evening
papers here print half a column account OF
McAuliffe's career in connection with the
Eews.
4 special cable to the Police Gazette says:
Many rumors are being circulated about the
fight Billy Madden, McAulitfe's trainer,
claims that Slayin is afraid of the Ameri-
can, aud believes he did not want to meet
Linn. a well-knOwn American says the a.
rest OF McAuHtfe is due 10 the fact that Sll-
vim has trained off, aud those who
backed him had the American arrested
to save their money. Creighton lem
pie of the OrMonde CLUB attributes
McAuliffe's arrest to the fact that the Prince
Of Wales was going TO attend the fight At
Il meeting of the Pelican Club to-day, Lord
I.onSdale and Richard h. Fox of New York
decided that, rather than see the match fall
Though, they would, if the authorities pre-
vent il, pnt up between them tle same
purse offered by the Ormunde Club, and
bring the fight off on tie Continent