The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-27
GOSSIP OF THE PRIZE RING.
Two Ffrst-Class Battles This Week
COrbett and Sullivan.


of the world, and Fred Johnson, feather
weight champion of England, will fight
before the Coney Island Athletic Club
tonight. The principal feature of
Johnson's training is his running
exercise. He takes great deal OF it
and can cover much ground in little time.
Most pugilists who are preparing for a
fight, punch bag which is almost weight
less. The least touch sends it spinning
through the air and as 1T comes back just
about as rapidly they must be very lively
to catch it on the return. Johnson's
punching bag is comparatively heavy. 1t
is packed with straw and is three or four
times the size of the bag in ordinary use.
He doesn't think it is good idea to virtu-
ally waste his blows upon the air. Resist
ance, he thinks, strengthens the arm, and
resistance. he says, is certainly what the
arm will get when there is a face
or body in its way. There
Is one other peculiar feature
about his training. He wears a mask
while he is at work and it gives him very
strange appearance. Perhaps 1t would be
more descriptive to say that he has his
head in bag. In this bag there are holes
for the eyes and mouth-for breathing and
seeing purposes. When the Englishman
was asked why he wore such covering.
he replied that he believed in reducing the
flesh of the face as well as the body. There
was no reason, he submitted, why man
should perspire only up as far as the neck.
Superhuous flesh on the face was, he de-
clared. most undesirable in a fight; it
made a better target for the other fellow
and was all the more susceptible to dam
age. The mask is of cloth and is lined
with flannel so that it makes pretty
warm covering,
George Dixon has been measured at the
Y. NJ. G. A. gymnasium, Boston, where he
does his indoor training. His dimensions
are: Thigh, 10 inches; calf II inches;
chest, without expanding, 34H inches;
chest, drawn in, BIZ inches; waist %
inches; biceps, 1lK inches; right forearm,
depth of abdomen, II inches; lung luz power.
1870 pounds; test of hand power with hand
dynameter, both hands, 45 Kilograms,
equal to 80 pounds; strength of pectoral
muscles. 60 kilos, equal to 1872 pounds;
strength of traction muscles with dyna-
meter, 40 kilos. equal to 176 pounds.
On the evening of June 80, in San Fran
cisco, Joe Goddard, the Australian heavy
weight. and Joe McAuliffe will fight
Goddard is the favorite and will probably
win.
The final deposit of $4,000 in the Cor
bett-Sullivan match has been made with
Stakeholder Phil Dwyer. Sullivan Is in
New York. He will train on Long Island
somewhere. He has his own theory of
training. He is now in excellent condi-
ton and only has to work Off a little
supertuous flesh.
There has been much laughter over some
measurements sent out by Corbett's man
ager. They gave the young man bigger
arm than Sullivan, and greater chest
dimensions. The true size of Corbett is
on record in the Olympic Club. San Fran
cisco. as follows: Weight 1S6 pounds,
height Is feet l inch. neck Is inches, chest
in repose 40la inches, chest full 4i34 inches,
waist 81 inches hips 3934 inches. right thigh
22H inches, left thigh - inches, right and
LETT calf 14A inches, right upper-arm Il
inches. left upper-arm ~ inches, right
and left forearm IL inches, right and left
wrist ~ inches. Asporting paper says:
The majority of people appear to lose sight Of
the fact that Sullivans great stronghold is
Queensberry rules. lie does not pretend to be a
cracker jack under London rules. although he
has defeated good men az that game. Accord
ing to the improved system OF fighting sullivan
has vanquished every man he has laced in very
short order. He has mot sloggsrs and scienced
men, and all met with the same fate. Corbett,
it Will be admitted, il probably the most scient-
fc man sullivan has been called upon to try
conclusions with. The young Ca.iiornian's
after a series of rounds of "fox- md hounds
chasing" that is, when sullivan viii begin to
show signs OF weakness, then the professor will
close up the gap and settle down 10 a course of
systematic jabbing and eye-blindng OF
course this plan Of action. as mapped
out by the young Californian, looks well;
that is. provided the big fellow will resort to
rushing and heavy punching. The question is:
"Who has seen sullivan contcsting with a
clever man under Queensoury rulesT Any of
the men who witnessed Suiiivan's style OF fight
QleeuShETy AT
he combines science and geueraiship with
heavy hitting. He tras had to chase his oppo-
nents when battling under London rules, other
wise the contests would lie sill going II unin-
terrupted by police MODS. man can drop
alter five seconds fighting rom a slight tap in
LONDON rules, which IS round, but according
To- Queensbury the order of battle is very d fer
ent indeed. Three minutes OF fghting with "a
powerful and clever man ike sullivan hunting
for the point Of jaw. is a serious question for
any tighter of tie present day To ponder over.
The New York Recorder III q recent issue
said:
Ten years ago John L. introduced the knock
ing-out process, and at once knock out bouts be-
came the vogue Later John MAKES "A transcon-
uuenta. tour AMI displays his powers, where
upon imitators became as numerous as Il les
around . mo asses barrel in midsummer. Then
John tells some challenger TO go aud get rep
utatlon, and all others who had plsyed in luck
stood OF chslengers n the same way. sullivan
then taxes up the drama. and behold. men OF
Drawn and boxing skill gave up the ring Tor the
OF medical man, who passes on the big fellows
CCnllslot, and hereafter any pugtlst who can
not produce certificate OF size, weight, chest
expansion, development of pectoral muscles,
circumference OF forearm, biceps, triceps and
abdominal proportions VIII be without value
This imitation OF sullivan is not without It's
lesson, II : the most 4}rect evidence that Sui
Ivan IS greater man ana better man than the
ma! r.ty OF people have believed him 10 be-
His Introduction OF the knocking out process IN
II limited number OF rounds DID much 10 bring
about The abolition ot the more trying. even
brutal game q. bare kuuckie fighting 10 q u
ish. lis pioneer WORK IL tue matter OF trans
continental tours ami foreign tours led other
fighters ~ tr4ve! ana become hrO.der in Their
iieas and more considerable Of their fellows His
tsAinE to the stage showed puginsts that there
were other spheres for men OF muscle II raised
thetr ProiessIo n The estimation OF the gen
era, puzzle and Themselves Il induced
IL cters % give some thought - other things
t1sl UPPER cuts and cross counters, and
Brought 70 men who can think We'll a.
p0nrI To sullivan more than 20 any other
one mau Is due the fact that clubs devoted -
LoX4uE are now h3ur.s6.ag institutions, sid 10
HIM MALAY Is due the rich purses given for
t'xing exhibitions. sud 5he decsdsnce - bat
t.Cs -; siu:.sc, in which the hgalers got lil;.e
e-ss sAAa AsEd kaoeAa