Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-01

| slxty-twO rounds and did not hurt MIN
at any stage of the game. Why were
your blows SO thoroughly Intellectual,
and why did most of the money placed
on you go on the number of rounds and
not on the result? To be sure you
whipped Choynski, which is feat that
l have my doubts about your being able
to repeat; but before can ever be
brought to think that you are an up
and up world-beater / want to see you
60 to finish with some one who is
every way your equal.
NV
Big Joe McAuliffe has been given a
match with Patsy Cardiff, and it will
give the Mission boy" an opportunity
to regain his lost laurels here at home.
Barney Farley may be right when he
says that Joe's pluck is not in the right
place, but the result of this lately ar
ranged battle should be in favor Of the
Californian. He has every advantage
over the st. Paul man, and should win
easily. do not mean to detract from
Cardiff's abilities, but he has shown
himself to be man who did not love
punishment, and whose stamina failed
him at critical moments.
**x
And now Fitzsimmons is after Young
Mitchell's scalp. The lanky Australian
longs to knock over the record OF the
young Californian, and Johnny has
agreed to think it over. If Mitchell
possesses the good sense that l give him
credit for he will steer clear of this
match, for if made I predict that he will
find the same Waterloo which wound up
the "Nonpareil." Speaking of Young
Mitchell reminds me OF an article sent to
Captain Cook by person calling him
self fighting critic, and published by
the captain in his weekly letter in the
Police News. This we'll posted( p critic,
in writing OF the Mitchell-Gallaghe
fight, has the effrontery to state that
Gallagher showed himself to be "chub-
ber" from the first round. In this way
he tries to detract from Mitchell's VIC
| tory, and make some of the eastern
sports think it was soft thing that
Mitchell faced when he met Gallagher.
He further asserts that Mitchell and his
friends caused the Frisco papers
to write up the fight as having
been q hard one, when in reality
it was a lay-down on Gallagher's part.
Now do not know who this exception
ally well informed critic is, but am
surprised at Captain Cook giving space
to such drivel. 1t is dollars to dough-
nuts that the communication is the
effusion of some pool buyer who had his
dough" in the wrong corner OF the
ring. | do not think that any man not
afflicted with softening of the brain
would say that the earlier portions of
the Observation-Disclosures fight showed
anything like desire to quit on Gal
lagher's part. He certainly let Mitchell
know that there was a fight going on
and kept the California champion ex-
tremely busy whipping him. Any over
sight on Mitchell's part would have lost
him the battle. Perhaps this cratic
critic took Billy Daily's tip on the fight.
NV
That unlucky organization The Pa
cific Athletic club has again stopped
over by the ending of the German-Black
Pearl contest. There must be some
thing decidedly wrong when fight
without kick at the finish is almost
unknown in q club. Change your sys.
tenn, gentlemen, or you will soon 60 to
temporary existence was thoroughly be-
spattered' with mud. There is enough
jobbing by the tin-horns on the outside.
Keep it there. Do not let it get into the
heart OF your directory.
x**
Once more Billy Smiths star is in the
ascendant. His defeat of Con Riordan
will surely help him along, and with
good Judgment Billy should be able to
retrieve the laurels he lost in his battles
with Carroll and Slavin. Billy's nerve
has always allowed him to make matches
with the conditions against him, where
| if he had always demanded an even
thing he would have had clean score
at the present time.
x*x
The little fellows with George Dixon
and Cal Mccarthy at the top of the heap
are wrangling in the east. John Griffin
and Johnny Van Heest are looking for
chance at the championship, and
crazy Billy Murphy has announced his
intention of returning to this country
and giving America another shy at the
champion belt. That his coming will
cause revival of interest in the ban
tams is sure thing, and even now
they are all chattering for the first 60 at
the Australian. That Murphy viii give
any or all of them a chance is p proved
by his former record here, for the Aus
tralian Midget is out for the stuff, and
will fight anywhere. at any time if there
is enough OF the filthy" in sight.
Xxx
The arrival of Sullivan and Slavin on
American soil will be the signal for the
offering of some more of those colossal
purses which marked the negotiations
OF two years ago between Sullivan and
Jackson. Some of, these purses were
facts, but more were ethereal and ex-
listed only in the brains of cunning
spectators. When these offers of purses
roll grandly up into the five-fgure limit
it is no wonder that the bruisers of the
present decade have to wear No. hats
and feel aggrieved that they are not
recognized among Ward McAllister's
four hundred. Surely the modern
gladiator will descend into history with
much greater reputation as leg
puller OF the public than that possessed
by his antique Roman predecessor.
COLONEL Toss-UP.