The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-19
Tho Mighty Man Of Erin.

III tio couiuB anu gong OF puHlllSt1C
championships in America the beautiful
Irish island has been more often repre-
sented at the front than any other
country. whether it be the United
States itself. England. Germany. Canada,
or Newfoundland. the few but famous
sources Of our list Of champions. OF the
nineteen individuals attaining to tho afore-
said catalogue Ireland has given birth to
seven. although those whose first stamp was
upon this Western hemisphere. likewise
seven In all. were known respectively as
HYRR. HRRNAN. GALLAGHER. DwYRR, RYAN,
and SULLIVAN. They were named thus out
Of no personal preference for titles of GAL
LAaHKR. SULLIVAN. and the like. but for the
reason that their forbears had SO been
known in Ireland years before. ireland is
on top in the originally British field Of pu-
glhstics as she Ia in the great American in
stitution OF negro minstrelsy.
OF late years tho native Colts have stood
around our ring and not In 1t. There hasn't
been genuinely Emerald champion since
the six feet and a half Of EDWARD O'BALD-
WIN sank out Of sight. There Is peculiar in
terest. therefore. belonging to the appear
ance this present season Of another Irish
man giving evidence OF boxing powers fit
to pick up again thread OF his country's
interrupted greatness. II not to take back to
her the very highest honors known to the
profession. PETER MAHER. who night before
last performed with such amazingly brilliant
success at New York's most magnificent
D1ANA-topped arena, the Madison Square
Garden. is truly good young man. He is
tall youth whose weight does not show
through his coat. His face. intelligent,
pleasing. regular. and slight. as In cases
often encountered with US. speaks for body
Of great muscular size. and by all usual
comparisons still greater strength. He is
marked with power and quality to his heels.
With him all is good. all works together,
and with the induplioable elegance Of great
natural grace and untouched suppleness.
And his style. All. 1t Is lovely. Master
MAHHR has as yet tapped gloves with but
very few. aud hence has enjoyed little OF the
practice that makes perfect: but none the
less his action calls up the days when the
analysis Of the great fighter gavc one part
strength to nine parts skill. and In casting
up the latter's chances against his rival.
science occupied the judgment almost to the
exclusion Of weight and force. This Irish
man Is as pure In style as the professor
who cultivates style only. His hitting Is
straight. precise. meaning. finished. and
marred with no motion OF the windmill or Of |
tho sluggcr ever ready to rest his fortune |
on the die OF a single blow. Taken for all |
In all. strength. style. and method make |
him to be happy and always dangerous
medium between the whirlwind school OF |
giants that have kept the ring for now |
something like . dozen years past and the |
classical and highly polished leo-pounders |
who ruled It In the epoch preceding.
As to what MAHxR can do in the face OF |
the greater guns now figuring before 1
the public. such as SLAvIN. or JACKSON. or
time will have to tell. since moth
Ing else can. But he has proved so much
that among the various national Hags float
Ing over the p. B. the but latAly dropping
standard Of Ireland must again be raised |
aloft to hutter In the company Of the high
est. And by way Of first taking his own
measure. why shouldn't he take that Of Mr..
CARoLus MITCHELL. now on his way to this