The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-24
A TOSS FOR CHOICE.
Kilrain Talks of Sullivan and
Slayin.
He Would Not Know on Which Man to Place
His Aoney-JOhn Would Have TO
Train for a Year.
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. ]
New YORK, June %. Your correspon-
dent saw Jake Kilrain to-day and had q
short talk with him about the event which
is just now agitating the sporting world,
namely, the prospective meeting between
Sullivan and Slavin. sit is just this way"
said Jake, ''those two would be very evenly
matched, and / would hesitate a good long
while before putting my money on either
fellow. However, if Sullivan could get
well, and go into the ring in his best condi-
ticn, [ rather think he would have the ad-
vantage over Slavin." Kilrain stopped
talking though for a moment, and said
"Slavin is good puncher. but he will take
a punch TO give punch, and that is against
him. OF course, every blow fellow gets
in fight, helps TO lay him out. Sullivan
is also the bigger man of the two"
. "How much higgerr'
well, l should say twenty pounds when
he is in lighting trim. Sullivan can't fight
under 21O or 2l5 pounds. He is great big
fellow and very strong. Slavin is also
pretty big and is hard hitter; every one
OF his blows counts, and with a man whose
arms are short like my own, this is de-
cided advantage. ! had to take punch
from Slavin in order to get near enough to
reach him myself. That's the way got
my black eyes," he explained. in trying
to reach my man l got few punches be-
tween the eyes and on the bridge of the
nose. You can say what you like, but Sui
Ivan needs big pile of training to 60 into
the ring. He hasn't fought for long time
his money came easy ana IL has gone easy,
and along with it has gone some of his
strength. He can't get into trim in
a month or six weeks or eight
weeks. He ought TO take a year
TO bring himself around where he once was,
Sullivan lives just according to what he's
got When money comes fast he lives fast,
and no fighter can live that way and keep
in shape. Slavin's habits are better; he is
a steadier liver and can train up almost any
time IN q few weeks. With Sullivan it is
altogether different. He is hard trainer.
Still, they may get together, and if they do,
it will be a great fight and Pm blesu If ]
wouldn't like to see it. It's not an easy
thing to guess who will win even if they
came together soon. OF course Slavin has
done me, but that's all right. 1 think any
great big fellow like Sullivan with good
strength and wind would have good show
with him.
"Who do you think can hit the harder
blow, Slavin or Sullivan !'' was asked.
THAT is hard question TO answer.
When fellow is in fight, don't you see,
he doesn'r stop TO consider how hard his
man is hitting, but he takes what comes
and looks all the time for q chance to give
punch himself. 1t Is very difficult to com,
pare two men like that with anything like
accuracy. One is almost as good q fighter
as the other. 1t will depend how they tight
each other. One might go into the ring
with greater confidence than the other and
that helps out. If Sullivan stops fighting
now and retires permanently from the ring,
he is all right. AS long as he lives and keeps
before the public people will 90 to see him
because he was never whipped and his
claim to be the greatest fighter the world
ever produced will meet with no successful
contradiction"