Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
to England about a week after the contest,
as there is nothing here for Slayin."
The Two Men Compared.


The Two Men Compared.
There is certainly deal of common sense
and lots of truth in the opinions stated in
the foregoing paragraph. People who have
been reading these reviews will know that
1 have long been of opinion that the latter
day system of glove fighting for extraor-
dinary sized purses gives very e1traor-
dinary inducements for fraud, deception. or
anything you may term it To compare the
two principals in question on their
merits would leave the impression
that Kilrain would surely be knocked
out. Let us take Kilrain at his best and
we'll find him contesting against men who
subsequently, have had no chance at all
against Slavin. We all know of the affair
between Jem Smith and Kilrain; how they
fought nearly an entire afternoon and then
made draw. How soon did Slavin get the
better of Smith? Why, in very few min
utes. None of us will rank Kilrain above
Joe McAulife; but for the sake Of argu-
ment will admit that Kilrain is even bet
ter than McAulife. But we cannot COM
pare Slavin and McAuliffe at all, simply be-
cause the contrast is too great. Kilrain has
''gone back" somewhat in late years, and
not long ago we found him having very
hard time of 1t to defeat Godfrey, the col
ored man. We might go on producing facts
showing how Slavin has ever been
terrific fighter, while Kilrain at best has
been very tame, though at times rather
handy one. But let me state that before the
affair comes off that the styles of the two
men are extremely dissimilar. Kilrain has
been reared in what may be termed the
''boxing school, and Slavin has been de-
veloped in the fighting school. AS result
Slavin fights from the start, as McAuliffe
found out; and in this respect Slavin re-
sembles John L. Sullivan in the latter s
encounter with Godfrey, still depends on
his boxing and that old notion Of waiting
for an opening. Well, these two styles, to
use term, cannot mix, and with two men
like Slavin and Kilrain as principals my
preference most certainly will be for
the Australian. If we could find a
man who could hit as hard as
Sullivan could then by all means would
plump for him were he in Kilrain's place
and adopted the. latter's style of fighting.
But we cannot, and if the coming contest is
in earnest Kilrain will be forced to hit
Slavin from the beginning and take heavy
doses in return, or else he may get the
heavy doses without giving anything at all.
But whether it may be the intention of
Slavin to try and knock Kilrain out or not,
I am content to believe that he will win.
Of course Kilrain stood up before Sullivan
for over three hours, and in q bare-fst bat
tie. But Sullivan was on the wane then,
and even at that, had the contest been one
with gloves, and under Queensberry rules,
Kilrain wouldn't have lasted ten rounds.
Corbett's New Business.
And finally James J. Corbett has gone
into the "show business" He evidently
prefers that to another meeting with q
broken-down man like jackson. I say
broken-down because 1 am informed by a
very reliable authority that the colored
champion is SO much broken down that he
will never be frst-class again. Certainly
there have been lots of opinions expressed
during the week about the late affair be-
tween Corbett and jackson, and the bulk of
opinions have, Of course, been in favor of
Corbett Some very wise people have been
telling us how "Jim" would have pulver-
lied the colored man had he been allowed to
60 on; in fact, one person declares that Cor
bett was waiting to administer the "knock
out" blow. Now isn't this the veriest
nonsense and claptrap2 The idea of a
man waiting four hours to administer
the crusher that would send his opponent
to oblivion. But take it the other way;
that is the best way for Corbett. Is he a
fighter OF the class that cannot settle an op-
ponent no more powerful than himself with
out running NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
race to do it? If he is, the show business
will be the better business for him. Mark,
l have never said that Corbett is not the
great man his friends say'he is, but do say
he has it yet to prove. can quite well
understand many of the extravagant things
said about Corbett, and many of the harsh
things said about Jackson. One is a white
man and the other is colored. That makes
all the difference in the world. Merit, and
merit only, will ever be praised In this
column, no matter whetherit comes
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
From Afric's sunny fountains
Or throughout the mighty land
Cary's Reported Records.
Once more Luther Cary has come promi-
nently before the public as record-breaker
in sprint running. Those of us who are in.
clined to take an interest in athletic sports
will still remember Mr.. Cary's claim Of
running 100 yards in 81 seconds last year.
The great tribunal of the amateur athletes
ignored the claim, and, of course, nobody
aIVeI b1ltt GdU lCcusC w sdy tudI NdTy ran
100 yards in any such time. But now Mr..
Gary has two new claims, and trust that
he will receive better show from the
'tpowers that be" this time than he did on
the last occasion. His claims now are that
he ran Last week 900 yards in 21Z seconds.
If this claim goes, then Mr.. Cary has the
worlds record. Hutchens seven years ago
ran the distance in q As, and two years
later G. G. Wood, an English amateur, re.
peated the performance. But what want
to point out now is for the moguls of anna
teurism to give Cary's claims little more
consideration than they did last year. OF
course if his claim of running 100 yards
in 9N goes he will also have the 100-yard
record. But the general performance oi
Mr.. Cary as a sprinter proves that he is q
remarkable runner and also shows that
there is part amount of prejudice prevail
ing against Cary in some quarters. If his
new claims are admitted some authorities
will have to make some curious explanations
of their disparaging statements regarding
Cary last year. While his 81 seconds
claim was an extraordinary one nobody
could claim that twas impossible to run 10(
yards in that time. But some New York
authorities condemned the claim as awfully
absurd Well now if Mr.. Cary has evi
dence to prove the truth of his two new
claims it cannot be said that his claim Of
last year was absurd. There is very strong
evidence indeed in support of his 22O-yarG
claim and it seems to me that the claim will
stand the test But surely everybody who
has been timing Cary for the last 10 months
cannot be cooking" the watch to suit hin
and during the time named he has dont
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