Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-01
MONEY ON THE FIGHT.
How the Betting on the Sullivan
Corbett Battle Is Going.
BOOKMAKERs WANT LARGER ODDS.
The Big Champion Preparing to Start for
New Orleans.
JOHN J.. STILL SHOWS UP TOO FLESHY

| 'ePFcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPATCH.1
NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-Yesterday morn
ing Sullivan got up early. He did practi-
cally nothing on the day before, and yester-
day he felt as if he ought to try and make
up for lost time, and he went in for regular
| gymnasium exercise. He was dressed in
heavy sweater and wore tights.
After a. few seconds at punch
| ing the bag he began to breathe
heavily. He kept up the violent exercise,
but strange to say, his heavy respiration
did not increase. He breathed scarcely any
harder at the end of an hour of hard work
than he did at the conclusion of the first
| five minutes exertion.
1t seems to be habit of the big fellow
| to breathe heavily. He spent nearly two
hours working in Casey's temporary gym
| nasium. Then he was taken upstairs,
stripped and rubbed down. 1t is in the rub
bing down process that Sallivan's evident
! lack of condition is most appar-
ent. When he is stripped and
lying on his back his enormous stomach
| seems to spread and jut out to twice the
| size it is when he is standing up. His
breast and his sides are covered with loose
flesh that quivered like jelly when his at
| tendants were at work on him. In his rub
| down he was not subjected to the usual
punching and kneadIng, but was let off with
| a rub down.
Too Much Flesh Everywhere.
Sullivan's stomach is not the only part of
| him that does not look to be in perfect
| order. His arms, neck and shoulders are
| all heavily clothed with flesh, and his huge,
| dubious muscles are hidden from view.
| Another peculiar feature about Sullivan s
| superhuous flesh is that it is soft and white.
| In texture it resembles that of a child. His
| figure is so rotund that his arms seem to be
shorter than they really are.
His legs, always thin, look thinner than
ever. One of the champions trainers
argued that to take off any more of Sui
| livan's flesh would only weaken him, that
| the fight will only be of short duration
and that more hard work was unnecessary.
| Sullivan asserts that he is stronger and
better to-day than ever before.
Additional wagers made on the fight be-
tween Sullivan and Corbett last night were:
Joe Lannon, Sullivan's old sparring part
ner, wagered 5000 against S120 that the
champion would win. He has $40, 900 more
to wager on the result. George Bauman
has 50, 500 even with John O'Neil, of New
Orleans j. E. Ellis, of Albany, thinks so
to $500 on the big fellow.
Combinations on the Result.
Nail Brothers, the hackers of George
Dixon, are making combination books on
the coming fights. They favor Sullivan,
McAuliffe and Dixon. Jerry Moran,
brother of Frank Moran, Sullivan's man.
ager. made wager of $500 to 5000. George
Downing, of Hot Springs, invested 81, $50
To hat Srl do
Corbett in si1 rounds. Matt Clune wagered
500 even that Corbett would succumb
to Suilivan's blows in eleven rounds.
Colonel A. II. Daniels wagered Jimmy
Wakely $3.50 to 81, 900 that Corbett would
win. Dick Connors, of st. Paul, left for
New Orleans Yesterday. He made wager
of 5000 to 500 on Sullivan. He has still
S. 900 TO bet Fred Harvey, of the Dixon
Vaudeville Company, offered $500 to 5000
on Dixon against Skelly yesterday.
At the White Elephant, Gilsey House,
Coleman and Vanderbilt Hotels there was
plenty of Sullivan money afioat, with very
few Corbett men on hand.
AS the hour draws near for the meeting
of Sullivan and Corbett at New Orleans,
the interest in the match seems to be on the
increase. While few large wagers have been
made on the result, any number of small
ones are recorded daily. The prevailing
odds are 500 to $50 in Sullivan's favor, and
those who appear anxious to back the cham
pion say that money is hard to place even
at those odds. Ever since Corbett appeared
at the Madison Square Garden on Monday
the betting has been more lively. Corbett's
fine showing evidently reassured some of the
doubling Thomases, and the hackers of the
big Californian are now talking more con-
fdently than ever. One wager was made
on Tuesday at 81, 900 to 5000 in Sullivan's
favor, and another of $500 even that Corbett
would not win In 10 rounds.
Bookmakers After Large Odds.
Al Smith is willing to wager $1,000 to
$40, 900 that Sullivan does not win. Book
willing to wager 50, 500 against 5000 on
the Californian. Charley Johnston has
$4,000 that he would like to bet on
Sullivan at odds of S1OO to So but
claims that he can find no takers.
Jimmy Wakely said last night that John
3ton had sent over 50, 900 to cover 81, 200,
which ne heard someone wanted to put up.
But the Corbett man failed to materialize.
Billy Edwards, at the Hoffman House, said
that some money had been wagered there
at odds of 100 to 20 in Sullivan's favor, and
that one man had bet $500 to $16O on Sulli-
van.
Sullivan and his hackers go South this
afternoon. They will leave Casey's hand
ball court, on DeGrew street. at about 4
o'clock. The party will drive direct to the
West Shore depot at Hoboken, where they
will take the "Sullivan special at $50
o'clock for New Orleans, going by way of
Buffalo, Cleveland and Cincinnati.
The big fellow and his party will make
the journey in the handsomely fitted I'D
private car "Traveler." Among those who
will accompany him and look out for his
interests are: Charley johnson, of Brook
lyn, and Jimmy Wakely, of this city, his
hackers. The rest of the party will be
made up of Phil Casey, his
trainer; Jack Ashton, Billy Nor
gan, Frank Moran and the Gap"
his valet On the same train will be Mar
tin Hernen, Pat Cliggett, j. w. McCagney,
Steve Brodie, Mat Cline, Tim Robinson,
Dominick McCaffrey, Mike Costello, John
j. Sullivan, John O'Neil, George Hansel,
AL Smith, Butch Thompson, and q number
Of the members of the Manhattan Athletic
Club. John j. Sullivan has So, 900 to 81, 900
wagered on his namesake, and McCagney
has wagered $1,000 to 5000 on the big
fellow.
Corbstt VIII Travel in State.
Jim Corbett will travel in lust as
much state as his big rival on the private
car "Escort.'' He will leave on Saturday
afternoon at o'clock on the ''Corbett spe-
cial' from the Pennsylvania depot at Jer-
sey City. The trip will be made over
the Pennsylvania and Piedmont air
lines The car was especially pre-
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