Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-09-23
THE FIGHT STOPPED
McAuliffe and SlaVin Arreste d
i'm London.
SPORTING MEN DISAPPOINTED
An English Ma istrate Will Examine
the Gloves This Afternoon.

In Case the Men Are Prohibited from
Meeting the Battle VIII Take Place on
the Continent-RIchard X. Fox and
Lord LOnsdaIe Ready to Put Up tie
Required Money.
LONDON, Sept. 23.-There was intense
excitement in Fleet street and at the
various sporting clubs over the arrest
of McAuliffe and Slavin, which has
been received with a general feeling of
disappointment throughout the city.
The offices of the sporting papers
were besiegsd by people. Bulletins
were placed in the shop windows and
crowds filed the streets. Then the ex-
element shifted to the district in
which the Ormonde Club is situated.
Both men were put under $4,000
bonds on their own recognizances to
appear in court again this afternoon,
with an additional caAtion from the
Justice that they had better not fight.
They were not absolutely forbidden to
fight or even to keep the peace. They
were simply put under bonds for their
appearance in court to-day dead or
alive, but they did not fight last night.
They will appear in court and will un-
doubtedly be bound over to keep the
peace, which will drive them to the
other side of the English Channel to
fight if they mean to fight at all.
McAuliffe's hackers declare that Sla-
vim, knowing that he was not IN proper
training to fight last night, all owed the
time of the proposed contest to become
known to the police.
1t is suspected by many, however,
that the Pelican Club set the machinery
of the law in motion, in revenge for
Slavin's refusal to fight in the clubs
rooms. The postponement of the affair
has profoundly Disguised the sporting
fraternity.
Lord Lonsdale and Richard X. Fox
met at the Pelican Club and decided
that should Slavin and McAuliffe fail,
by the interference of the authorities,
to bring off the fight in the Ormonde
Club, rather than see the match fall
through they will put up the original
purse offered by the Ormonde Club,
$500 each, and bring the fight off on
the Continent with limited number
of spectators on each side.
No proposed fight since the memoir
able battle between Sullivan and Kill
rain has excited so much attention as
the Slavin-McA uliffe contest has done.
Throughout England, America and
Australia it has been the subject of
talk and speculation since the men
signed articles.
The men have trained carefully and
oonscientiously for their battle Slavin
trained with Billy Mccarthy, the anti
podean, who is preparing for his go
with Ted Pritchard, which will soon
take place at the Pelican Club. Siavin
trained under the membership of Jack
Lewis at the Cliff Hotel, Dovercourt.
Dovercourt is one of the prettiest and
quietest seaside resorts on the east
coast of England, and excellent judg-
ment was shown by Slavin and his
trainer in their selection.
McAuliffe reduced his surplus avoir-
dupois about forty pounds at Wellesley
the Sea, under the personal supervision
of his trainer and manager. Billy Mad
den. Joe has worked hard and well,
and despite the great reduction in
weight. which was in all probability
the greatest contract of its kind ever
accomplished by pugilist, the Mission
Boy is 1.-the and active as young
kitten.