The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-28
SLAYIN AND JACKSON
A Well-Known Sporting Man
SAYS the Former Will Win.
SLAvIN HAS SULLIVAN'S WAYS
Tho American and Australian Sports
Compared, to the Disadvantage Of
the Former.

Mr.. Louis A. Scharrar, well-known
bootmaker and sporting man of Melbourne
and Sydney, Australia, who has been trav.
cling extensively through our country for
the last two years, is now here in Salt Lake
and thinks very likely he will locate here
permanently. Mr.. Scharrer expresses the
universal opinion that our city is really the
finest in the west and believes in its future
prosperity. In speaking of Australian
sporting m alters, the coming fight between
Slavin and Jackson, at the Melbourne
athletic club, he said: II am personally
acquainted with all the members and mana
gers of this club and know very well it will
be fair and square fight without any fav
ors. The members of this club are the
same kind Of gentlemen as those who run
the large clubs in this country and they al
ways guarantee protection and fair play to
any of the boys who fight at their rooms. l
am well acquainted with both Jackson and
Siavin, have handled them both, and judg-
| ing not from hearsay but from what have
seen and know, believe Slavin will win.
While Peter may have lit
| tie advantage in reach and
possibly little more science, still Slavin
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has shown. He is a desperate and deter
mined rusher, a terribly hard hitter and
never knows what it is to lose his pluck.
So taking it all in all, believe he will win
but not until after good hard fight"
In speaking of betting in Australia, he
compared our system with theirs. The
principal differences are that they lay odds
on first second or third bet during the run
ming of race, and that almost all bets are
simply what we call word bets and no
money is put up until after the race. As a
general thing the book-maker knows
pretty well whose word is good, still the
feeling amongst all classes against a
''welcher' is so strong that he nearly
always can take mans word. They bet
much heavier on an average than we do
here and take much more active interest in
a big event. The social idea of horse rae
: ing there is different; a minister thinks
nothing of going to race and betting a
! sovereign or two. While it seems here
if one of your parsons even goes
to race course to look on he
is simply run out of his church have
myself laid wagers on the two leading
races, the Melbourne Derby and Cup, what
we call double event book, to the amount
of many thousand pounds, often betting as
high as a thousand to one on the two horse
combination. The betting on one of these
large races after the start is very heavy
and exciting. The tracks are beautifully
arranged, so that every one can see the
race from start to finish, and this enables
) the people to note the positions of the
. horses, and if they want put down hedge
bet on the race. We also bet heavily on
. the boat races, especially so when some
rover from America has come out to row
against the home man"
He carries with him several mementoes
, given him by his sporting friends in Aus
tralia: several watch charms and very
handsome gold watch and chain which was
1 presented to him at Auckland by several Of
the fraternity there.