Evening journal., 1891-06-19
SULLIVAN WILL FIGHT.
Boston's Pride Wants a Meet
ing with Slavin. :
TEN ROUNDS FOR A MINT OF MONEY

The big Fellows Friends Are Ready to
Back Him and Think He win Easily
Achieve the Conquest OF Australia.
John LIS Telegram to wakeiy.
NEW York, June io--As the following
telegram viii show, the great John. L.
Sullivan has decided to attempt the con-
quest Of Australia.
SAN JOSH, Cal, June 10.
To James Wakely, New York:
Make match for me meet Slavin for ten
rounds, winner to take NIL the purse and an
outside bot OF $1,000 side.
JoHN l. SULLIVAN.
Sullivan can nolonger suffer the humilia-
tion Of seeing the colors OF foreign pugilists
waved aloft on his native soil. AS the
above Telegram indicates, he has author
lied James Wakely, of this city, and
Charles Johnson, Of Brooklyn, two Of his
former hackers, to match him against
Slavin, the Australian. The conditions he
names call for ten rounds, Queensberry
rules, $4,000 a side in stakes, winner to
take all and the match 10 be contested be-
fore the athletic club which offers the
largest purse.
siavin WIN Accept.
Slavin will probably accept lie prom
ises TO return from England IN three
months aud the champion by that time
will have concluded his Australian en-
gagement and will be ready to go into
training.
They Would Have Been Heartbroken.
OF all the men who saw the contest be-
tween Slayin and ISilrain on Tuesday
night none watched 1t with greater inter
est than did James Wakely and Charles
Johnston, who furnished a good part of
Snllivan's $4,000 stake in his fight with
kilrain at Richburg. They are both good
judges Of tbs sport and are convinced that
had Sullivan been ia the Baltimorean's
place there would have been three heart
broken passengers on one OF the big ocean
steamers which will sail for Europe on
Saturday Frank Slavin, Charley Mitchell
and George Washington Moore.
4ss E IL WIN Be a Great Battle.
II this proposition meets with favor in
the eyes Of Slavin the match, which will
be the most important pugilistic event In
the history Of the ring, can be made AZ
once. Slavin will sail for England tomor-
row. Sullivan will leave San Francisco
for Australia on June 25. Both can depart
from this country matched TO battle for
the worlds championship and the largest
amount Of money ever fought for in this
or any other country Wakely and John
ston will meet the big Australian at any
hour the latter may name today or to-
morrow to post a forfeit and sign pre-
| liminary articles
when tell you that / am authorized
TO make q match for Sullivan, (" said Jim
Wakely last night, 81 am not talking for
the fun Of it. The last words John said to
me rs we shook hands ia San Francisco a
few weeks ago were these:
what Boston's Pride said.
"'Jim, have made up my mind to fight
once more. II Slayin whips Kilrain and in
not defeated by Jackson or Corbett before
return from Australia, want you and
Johnston TO back me against him VIA
you do itg
'Blucher, said I--that's my pet name
for Sullivan-you are the greatest fighter
the world ever saw. Aside from that, you
are my friend aud Johnston's friend We
will back you against any man living for
any amount Of money"
"'Fhat'a all want TO hear, Jim,' the
big fellow said, i intend TO take good care
Of myself, and If Slavln will meet me on
my return from Australia, I'll give you
and Johnston run for your money
Now, then,' continued Wakely, "the
only conditions upon which shall insist
II Slavin desires to make a match are that
Queensberry rules shall govern and that
the contest shall take place before the
athletic club offering the largest purse
fancy that the California Athletic club
will be willing to offer greater incentive
than any other organization in the coun-
try. II not then the contest will go to
New Orleans or TO one Of the clubs in this.
vicinity"
He Thinks John L. WIN win.
"You appear to be pretty confident that
Sullivan has enough left in him to beat
Slavin. Don't you believe that Slayin is q
remarkable fightersn
Il certainly do, responded the Puritan
club man. "Slavin Is the greatest fighter
| have ever seen, bar Sullivan. just Inn
agine what the result would have been If
Sullivan had landed on Slayin as often as
kilrain did in the first two rounds The
fight would have been over then and there.
Slavin ~ just the style of fighter that
Sullivan likes. He is not a boxer but
sails right in to win or lose in a hurry