The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-21
SPORTS AND SPORTING.
,vbot is Doing and What is Likely
N Be Done by the pugil!sts.
OPPRESSION ONLY TEMPORARY
,,,opr tho Mig Fellows, While the
,u,le Chaps Are Doing Some.
hinc...i rlacidity at New Or
Consolidation Looking for Mahcr.
c,rIyou En- Routc IIomc-..Gcncral
sporing Gossip

vrr York, Oct. 90.--Droad backed,
H., G.,ad and deep chcstcd pugillsts
..1w :, be Il, u discount here
,loot. inst now, and tho public
Jon, cn,hrsc as much as 1t used to
,,or fine utteranCcs, bluffs and mani.
i,.,oc, OF the lew that arc left and want
,obs Of pnIycrizing opponents. This
Icrression in the heavy weight buffer
market i: only temporary, perhaps, and
b.iore the snow flies it may have given
away 10 4 boom that will make tho boys
,,c TINT at least New York has Il soft
srot in her big heart for them. BY that
time Sullivan is likely to be back
onon, us from Australia, and Slavin
""I Mitchell once moro on these shores.
Adj Ccrbctt and throw in Nlahcr, tho
'o,cst from abroad, and do not forget
prcr Jackson, Joe McAuiiilc, and pos
tbIy, Joe Goddard from Australia, who
wants 10 Journey this way for fame and
Gollgrs, and there will be enough and to
snare 10 make pusilis,ic matters full OF
mrFrimcnt. So, after all, the lull, The
oujctudc in the heavy weight market
mps; be only ior the time being, and
!, vii. soon give way TO exciting discus.
sons and possibly to determined en-
counters.
In con.raq. to the biz fellows the lit
lie chaps are doing something, and I'M
less al! Signs fail there will be signed
articles tomorrow for an international
battle. This battle will be in private
and between All Levy, OF England. and
Tommy Kelly, the clever "llarlcm
Ep,acr.h Mr.. Joe Early, OF New York,
i. booking alter the interests Of the
stranger and when his heart is in Il
natter Of this kind the party he is be-
hind will always get fair play and all
,ha: is coming to him. The hacker OF
Kelly IS an old standby in sporting al
fairs and has always looked after him.
Kelly, i, is said, wants to fight with
skin.ight gloves, while Levy claims
that two ounce mittcns are the
proper and perhaps legal capcr.
This is the only difference now
between them, and this cannot
amount 10 much when they come to
post additional forfeit money. This
will be done with editor Lumlev to.
morrow, and soon after the men arc
expected to 90 into training. There
will bea good deal OF money OH this
tgh, Kelly will be the iavoritc. OF
course, simply because he is well known
BY the sporting public here, and has
been 50 thoroughly tried and been so
uniformly successful. 1t is believed he
cannot be very easily defeated, and
that particularly by i chappic OF LEWIS
stamp and mould. Still it isn't good
plan 10 make little OF IN opponent, and
its awful bad pugilistic policy to shout
before one is out OF the woods. Joe
EARLY isn't making mistakes every day
in lhc year, and it is very clever
fellow that out cutes his cutcncss in
lighting affairs.
Down New Orleans way there is
snoothNcss and placidity in the pugil-
istlc business. The cnterprising Olym-
pIcclub want Jimmy Larkins, OF jcr-
seyCitY, and Johnny Griffin, OF Boston,
tocomc together for purse OF $500,
an! they will meet there next month,
The winner OF this bout will be the top
leather weight in the land, now that
BILLY Murray has gone home. The lat
'eFwhippcd Ike Wier when everybody
thought he was on the point OF giving
up and got away with Johnny Griffin
lA satisfactory shape, all with that pc
ci'Ilag but elective body punch lie has
made almost famous. Griffin, l i'm
agGe, learned much in that encounter,
ali! l.arkIns, who, by the way, intended
10 be 4 candidate for the New Jersey
Assembly at the coming election, but
mas wisely abandoned tho idea, will
Akety find in him very determined
Ice The Olympic club will get the
worth OF their purse, and that is good
zeal in these times, and the winner
may cal! himself the champion OF his
''H'' -Ah'iul IDIllCS DuCk.
W., ;Haner has not got on Il match, but
H!'!y Madden is looking out for him in
US Oh shrcwd way and is likely TO
soon bring him prominently before the
l0S'!iatlc world. Ii he is clever the
people want to know it. Ii he is only a
rough and tumble fellow, with 4 modi-
yum Of science, they would like to know
n \; Il hGls one OF the best they would
mH I'M % Enow it. and in the latter case
WIN give hlm the place that ability de-
""A!s should be allowed him. Corbc,t
1 I'aSA' time, lie says. to bother with
.i"'ef. put will find him man ut once
M M"G viii give him nj! the fight he wants.
i;' a;, Is 100 cunning to catch at that
L''' rs ne wants his man to meet the
usTeSt END Of game at the start, and
Eo,'!'AE OF mediocre character. That's
!'sNt, William! Well, Madden has ar.
iMHSeT an engagement Tor Mahcr in
Ill., th"'99aeiPh!a, He will appear before
S S,e ARIEL Club there on Wednesday and
r ,a,,. OF this week, and his oppo-
n ,1,' Nl!ly says, are good men. These
S!'o" WNaL tRere Is III Alabcr,
VI .n !" 'cast give the spectators an idea OF
''c manner OF man he is,
r, S"''tva'' and party arccxpcctcd in San
a."" SH;t on the next Australian steam.
,b,, Tutor I.nmley has heard indirectly
,H '". aheF were not stranded there and
r r"" %''en they left California they had
S v5Htn tlckcts in their pockets, Unon
r;~o" ,"a arrival in Frisco he will be
E TH reception at tho Bush Street
1 lnsa're, and it is expected to DO mon.
scr After 4 short STAY thoro tLn nnD. :,
i "n' make. make thcirway 10 The eastward M.
my l4e manyongagements ALREADY mndo
f fin ,imeM III the principal cities, and
. II''aI'y arrive here. Then and not XII
ill.,; ;iEn VII! sullivan think about firhtino
n a. Il" does 50 ut ell. Should slavin be-
hi r,. at TINT time, talking and bluff:
~; ~, 'ohn may adopt such mcosuros &c