The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-08
SULLIVAN WAS stale.
Exciting Scenes in the City
Where Returns We're
Received.
SUCCESSFUL LADIES DAY.
The Jersey City Yacht Clubs
Closing ReceptiOn-Sea
Girt Shoot.

The bulk of the millions in gold recent
ly transferred from San Francisco to New
York have gone back to the Golden Gate.
1t was not returned by a special train.
but was carried in the pockets of the
western sports. They won it on the Sui
lvan-Corbett fight. They had an easy
chance to impoverish the eastern sports,
as they had to put up only one to win
three or four, so heavily did the Sullivan
ties plunge on the exclamation. Hogs
heads of dollars were taken to the battle
ground by the followers of the
nee invincible, and they absolutely
dumped them, so eager Were
they to get bets. Any odds were
accepted. 1t would have been ten to one
had the Corbett faction not been SO well
supplied with funds and could not resist
placing it with the odds so favorable.
More money was wagered on the result
by tenfold than has ever been laid on g
prize fight. This is a low estimate. Every
man who went to New Orleans to see the
battle took every dollar with him he
could raise and nan carried all the
available wealth of their friends.
1t is needless to go into details after
quoting Sullivan, I stayed in the
He was clearly 1y stale and
was no match for his opponent who had
The advantage in age, activity and skill.
He has more science than Sullivan and
avoided the ex-champion's blows until he
had weakened him.. Corbett is q capisal
general in the ropes, n when he found
Sullivan's strength was gone, he rushed IN
and finished him. It was not a great set
entifc battle. 1t was Corbettis victory
from the start.
Hiln {H%nua1R - %kA a~,1I ~ khA Grhf
was intense in this city. AS early as
eight o'clock people began to assemble at
Enoch Smiths corner and other places,
where returns from New Orleans would
be had. The crowds rapidly increased
until the jam was so great inside of the
buildings that no one could get in.
When the ticker announced that the
men were in the ring between 300 and 400
persons were in and about Smiths. liq-
uor store impatient to learn what
would follow. At Heller's saloon near
the Opera House Il crowd equally large
was just as eager for returns, and the
same feeling was manifest on Pavonia
sIe the tue Court House. A crowd had
also congregated in front of the Western
Union Telegraph office.
When the first round was sent over the
ticker it was received with smiles and
such expressions as:-.The big 'un is
RAdyluE WtbA ulA. uiU q Hlluutc III
see Sully put him to sleep. pl bet 500
to fifty on Sullivan One of the
c'osest and most persistent hellers was
Mike OpMara. He was in Heller's saloon
aud braced uD against the bar he shouted
during the nrst half dozen rounds, $50
even on Sullivan. He did not succeed in
making a bet. At the end of the fifth
round the tape at Enoch Smiths place
refused to work and the crowd which by
this time numbered 500 made a mad
break for HelIer's. Thu street was SO
crowded that it was difficult for street
cars to pass. The same excitement con-
corning che fight existed in all quarters
of the city, but everywhere Sullivan was
a favorfte even when it was apparent
that he was whipped. When the final
news anne over the ticker at Smiths
which had been repaired not less THAI
1000 people heard the dispatch read, 1t
was received with almost e total silence.
Except here and there some individual
shouted for Corbett the victor did not
seem to have a friend. Sullivan was
everything. He was the god of the ring
that had been worshipped with faith for
a dozen years and his followers could not
seem to shout 1.-THE king is dead; long
live the king" There WAS not a great
this city because of the fact that Sullivan
was sue q strong favorite no one seemed
to care to back Corbett. It is feared. how
ever, that Jimmy Hunt, Teddy Carroll,
Tommy Cummings and other sports who
left the city to 60 to New Orleans will
lind the walking home monotonous, AS
late as TWO O'Clock this morning groups
OF people were seen OIL the streets discus
sing the downfall of Sullivan.