The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-19
RESCUED BY JOHN L.
Sullivan Defies the Australian
Slavin to Combat.
THE couNTRY's HONOR SAVED.
Boastful Invader TO Be Driven Out =
siavin Gets Drunk, Quarrels With
Dunn and is Fired From q Hotel

NEW YORK, June 1s-lSpecial John l. Sui.
hvan has decided TO come to his country's
rescue He has authorized James wakeley, OF
ms city, and Charles Johnston, of Brooklyn,
Two Oh his former hackers, 20 match him against
eiavin. the Australian. The conditions he
names cali for ten rounds, Queensbury rules,
slo,0OO side in stakes, the winner to take ALL
and the match 70 be contested before the ath-
ietic club which offers the largest purse These
stipulations were included in q dispatch which
ne sent from San Jose, Cal. to James wakeley
last night
slavin win probably accept He promises to
return from England in three months, and the
champion by that time will have concluded his
Australian engage ment, and viii be ready 10 go
into training
vi all the men who saw the contest between
slayin and Kilrain on Tuesday night none
watched II with greater interest than did James
Hakeiey and Charles Johnston, who furnished
good part Of suIlivans $4,000 stake in his
light with kilrain at Richburg. They are both
gooo judges OF sport, and were convinced that
had Sullivan been in the Baltimorean's place
there would have been three broken
passengers on one of the big ocean
steamers which viii sail for Europe on
Saturday-Paddy Slavin, Charley Mitchell and
George Washington Moore. wakely and John
ston are ready to match the phenomenal Ameri-
can pugilist against Kilrain's latest conqueror
for $1,000 side. II this proposition meets
with favor in the eyes of slsvin the match,
which viii be the most important public event
IN the history of the ring, can be made az once.
slayin will sail for England Saturday, and
Sullivan will leave san Francisco for Australia
on June .. Both can depart from this country
matched 10 battle for the worlds championship
and the largest amount of money ever fought
for in this or any other country. wakeley and
Johnston viii meet the big Australian at any
nour the latter may name. 10 post forfeit and
TO sign the preliminary articles.
At O'Clock this friday morning slavin said
that II Sullivan would forego his trip be (Slavin)
would defer his return TO England and prepare
70 meet the Boston man At once.
Jere Dunn, referee in the slAvin- Kilrain glove
contest, rendered a formal decision tonight. He
awards the tight TO slavin, but declares that
Kiirain was not knocked out Bets that the con-
test would not last ten rounds are won. because q
winner lie declared after less than nine rounds
have been contested. Dunn says that Time
keeper Daley made an unfortunate mistake after
the gong got out of order in not calling out the
seconds that elapsed while Kilrain was
down. He then states that he considers
himself equally at fault in not keeping his eyes
to the center OF the ring at that time in order 10
see for himself how quickly Kilrain got up. He
explains the fact that his back was to kilraiu,
by saying that he felt it his duty. ON account of
Slavin's method of fighting, TO watch the Aus
tralian 70 prevent him from fouling. Dunn states
that Slayen always showed desire to so in and
slug Kilrain the instant he rose from falling
down. Dunn has put himself on record as being
against such tactics, and says that he would have
decided against slGyin had he committed that
act in the ninth round.
This evening in a hotel slavin and Mitchell,
who seemed TO have been drinking, made good
deal of noise. They intimated in a roundabout
way to Jere Dunn that he had been afraid to
decide that Kilrain was knocked out, because
his (Dunns) friends had bet against that result.
Dunn replied that if he only got bad reputa-
ton from such people as the people who were
talking, his character would always be of the
best.
slavin was requested to leave the hotel, and
did.