Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-03
MONEY GOING UP
ON TUE SULLIVAN-COaBETF Fight AT NEW
ORLEANS.
The Local Sports Will Soon be on the Qui Vive.
Most Of the Money Up on a Basis Of 500 to
S7O-Some Gossip On the Fight.

bett-Sullivan fight are the two subjects
which are just now monopolizing the
considerations of about every man who
reads the daily papers, since, with the
exception of what space is devoted to
politics, there is little else to be read.
The Borden case is such a battling
mystery that people have got pretty
tired discussing it, although eager TO
read everything the papers contain
about it, and there is at present good
deal more speculation upon the result Of
the big fight than as TO whether or not
Lizzie Borden killed her father and
stepmother.
The supposition that only the social
ed sports are interested in the fight is
altogether wrong. News of all kinds of
! business and professions are 10 be heard
giving opinions upon the subject and
two well-known Wheeling gentlemen,
who, from their positions, would hard
| ly be suspected of having an interest in
! prize fighting, discussed the records
and the supposed abiitesof the two
principles with REGISTER reporter
yesterday il a manner that showed they
! had been "reading up"
The prevailing sentiment in this city,
| is that Sullivan will win the fight and
| win 10 quick at that, but when it comes
to matter of preference, not few
hopes that Corbett will win, since such
! a result would be the triumph of man
over brute, even if the contest is
brutal.
A professional gentleman on Market
| street, who has given the matter some
| quiet study, said yesterday: lit was
COrbett's ambition TO get TO the top
| that made him anxious 10 arrange
match with Sullivan, who without Ques-
ton, holds the position he covetS.
There wouldsnever be another Sullivan
in the world" he declared, "Such a
| fighter as Sullivan was seven or
eight years ago. The history Of the
prize ring shows no other such fighter,
and ne man that ever lived could have
bested the Bostonian in his prime. At
his style of fighting Sullivan was in
vincible, and the man that hoped to
| beat him must win his fight with his
head fully rs much as with his hands.
| 1t is just tritle doubtful in
my mind if Sullivan, at
the present, with all the
dissipation and abuse to which he has
been subjected, can really get into trim
for hard fight. Corbett is quicker on
his feet, of longer reach, and at least Of
as good science as Sullivan. Cor6ett
has never injured himself by dissipa-
ton. Corbett Is nearly ten years Sulli-
vans junior, and it is safe to say he can
stand hard punishment, because he has
received it.
What effect punishment would have
on Sullivan cannot be foretOld because
he has never met man who had been
able to give him. What Corbett will do
when he meets Sullivan in the ring will
not be to lead him sprint race as
Mitchell had without trying to punish
him nor will he try to meet his irresist-
ible rushes with rushes. He will likely
rely on his head and his agility 10 avoid
all the punishment he can but will at
the same time TRY to get few in on
him."
Considerable money is being put up
on the fight among local sports just
now. There have been several bets
made on the contest during the past day
or two. The money is mostly at the
rate of 500 to $50. There were two
bets of $50 TO S35 on Sullivan made In
South Side saloon yesterday afternoon,
and commercial traveller at the Wind
sor yesterday made q peculiar bet OF
5000 TO Sl25 on Sullivan. There have
been several bets Of 500 to $50 and 500
10 $40, but there are few bets with easier
odds. The two to one bets find very
little favor. Sullivan takers cave at
this proposition.
Quite a large bet, however, was
started yesterday on this basis. A pro-
prietor OF one of the saloons on Market
street offered to bet 1000 to $500 on
Sullivan with gentleman who happen
ed into town from Pittsburg. They pro-
ceeded to the Mcclure House, where the
saloon man pulled out his cool 81, 900 in
a huge role of bills, and the other man
was about to put up when technical
pOint arose. 1t was discovered that
according to the rules governing bet
ting on such affairs that If the fight Is
draw each of the two men who bet take
one-half OF the stakes. When this was
learned the bet fell of, as the $1,000
man thought such odds were
against him. At casual glance
this ruling would seem to be an Unjust
ice to the holder of the long end, and
sort of an award for nothing to the
short end holder. But, as q certain
gentleman expressed 1t last night,
man seldom gives odds unless he thinks
he's got something In the nature OF
dead cinch, and the evening up Of the
money in case OF draw seems to fifty
atone for his probable easy winnings
otherwise, and the short end holder
takes the severeSt risk from the start.
As the coming week is fair week not
many of the Wheeling sports will grace
the Crescent City with their presence,
although few will likely attend.
There are three or four from the South
Side who leave tonight. There are
lots of smaller bets up all over the city,
Bellaire, Bridgeport and Martins Ferry
and quantities OF silk hats and suits OF
clothes. The girls at the telephone
exchange will be kept busy answering
calls Cd the night Of the Sullivan-Cor-
bett fight, as between newspaper and
telegraph Offices there will be a con-
slant yearning for the latest.