Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-29
SULLIVAN. RYAN AND sLAvIN.
The Champion Will Have His Hands Full
h lie Keep. His engagements


From TIE New York Herald today.
som thing is the matter with John L. Sulli-
van. a il not a week since he challenged
Paddy Slavin TO fight him from ten to forty
round. Queensberry rules. for sl0. 900 side
and tn, biggest purse they could get Now the
Telegraph announces that John L. has accepted
a proposition from his first great victim. Paddy
Ryan. aud will box him six rounds for a purse
and $1,000 a side in September. Nobody in
the east can quite reconcile these facts. Every
body Anows that the air Of California in the
dry season is very bracing. but it must be
more sxhilarsting than champagne If it has led
John l. sullivan INTO such frame of mind
this In the first place II IL hard to see how
Sullivan can hight in California in Sep
tembcr II he l. going ON his Australian
tour. The voyages across the Pacific
will &C -upy forty-eight DAYS. Sulliyan's theat-
real q. m paign is scheduled at fourteen weeks.
How h can leave san Francisco tins wee h. full
MI his sngags uent-. be back again and IN the
TIng or auy day IN September il mystery
Int thru sullivan ALWAYS Was original Per-
lsps. a. a friend of mine has suggested he will
train the thIp coming home. IL he does
TINS ths steamship company should charge
John Is fellow passengers double fare. The
eutertI lnmsns thew will derive from seeing the
bag fellow trot twelve miles day ON the ships
hurricane deck, punch the bag in the after
cabin and t0-s anchors around on the bows
Will h. we'll worth the extra charge.
But al joking ABIDE. 1t Is difficult TO
understand The situation man l know
Who has long dIslIked the champion
nIures g out IN this way: Sullivan tried his
lest {, - 10 Australia matched To fight the
champion Of that country. Cooi-heaslet
hariir Mitchell was too much for him and
brought the Ian 10 naughL A things stand
now The reaction from Johns fruItlcss chal-
lcn-e Will do him mOse harm in Australia than
~ no fighting talk had passed on either side.
sullivan . manager Is trying To offset this by
making the match with Paddy RYAN. He
thinks that the name OF the old-uIne champion
of America will be good enough TO stand of
thu la results Of the SlavIn challenge hasco."
IL ss, ms 10 me that this Is hardly just. In all
al the eleven years that John l. Sullivan has
been before the public he has never vet laid
himself open TO the accusation of hippodrom-
Ing. IL l. true III Il the queerly wOr,led chal-
Images telegraphcd from san Francisco to
SlaNIn were calculated TO arouse suspicion.
and that 50 far as prestige goes Siavin had the
better Il the long distance negotiations. Still,
that l. not Sullivans fault. 80 far as the ar
rangcInent o. fight Ryan goes II looks like find
ing money fer sullivan. In the tight in llissis-
sippi city in February. 1881, Ryan was not
able "a give his hackers run for their
money When he recovered from the eomatose
condition into which sullivan had put MIN he
IlaintISely remarked. Il thought a telegraph
Iole f..il ON my neck OF course the John L.
sullivan OF today IL not 50 strong and cannot
he 80 q a. the young fellow who dropped
teiegr phi pOie on Paddy kyan's neck. never
thele-s II IL impossible TO see how Ryan will
have chance with his Old conqueror. For the
last ten year. Ryan has led a fairly temperate
life. n = true But sullivan easily whipped him
In few minutes at Mississippi city. and il Is
hard - see why lac cannot easily whip him
Hgain IN a fes minutes. RYAN has done no
lighting OF any account since Sullivan put him
- -lsep. whereas sullivan has been knocking
cut strong men and fighting championship
battles duriI all that period