St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-08
THE MEMS RECORDS.
Neither Had Yet Met With a Sim
gle Defeat.


New ORLEANS, Sept. Tt would be
tedious 10 enumerate the long list OF
knock-outs accomplished by Sullivan.
His technical record has been published
again and again, and though no lost a
very badly made match with Tug Will
son and broke his arm while boxing
with Patsy Cardiff, he met with no de.
featS. the nearest approach TO it being
his draw with Charley Mitchell in
France.
1t may be said, therefore, that when
Sullivan stepped into the ring tonight
he appeared before 5000 spectators, a
pugiIlst who. with tremendously long
list of victories to his credit, had mot
suffered single defeat. His career has
been altogether unique and particularly
unparalleled i'll the history of the prize
ring.
Tom Sayers was pugilistic wonder
III his day and retired with but single
defeat scored that having been accom-
plished by Nat Langham, when Savers
was not nearly in condition., but Sayers
used to fight at from $50 pounds to 154
pounds and he was accustomed to being
Knocked Off His Legs
again and again by the big men with
whom he used to be matched, while
there is only one man in the ring who
had ever knocked Sullivan down, and
that man is Charley Mitchell.
Sullivan had always won his battles
in such powerful and mastery man.
ner that it was difficult for those who
had witnessed his triumphs to recognize
for him the possibility of defeat, and
on the other hand it was easy to under
stand why COrbett'S friends should be
full of confidence.
The young Californian has a brilliant
record, unmarried 10y single defeat.
His list of victories was much shorter
than Sullivan'S, but he was young in
the business, and the men whom he had
met are all good ones. His battle with
jackson has gone far to give confidence
in him.
Sullivan haG defeated Kilrain in
seventy-five rounds; Slavin had dis
posed of kilrain in nine rounds. Jack
son had easily disposed Of Slavin, and
CorDett had made draw with Jackson
at the end OF very long fight, the first
thirty rounds of which had been
Very Holly Contested.
BY the trial horse test thus arranged
Corbett looked to be better man than
Sullivan, and to emphasize this line of
argument it was pointed out that Cor
bett had not many months after the
Richburg battle virtually disposed of
kllrain before the Southern Athletic
| club III New Orleans in six rounds.
This of course looked very we'll on
paper, but many Shrewd judges firmly
believed that the Kilrain who made
such stubborn fight at Richburg was
very different man from the Kilrain
who afterwards met Vaquelin, Corbett,
| Godfrey and Slavin. 1t was also
| claimed that jackson was suffering in
| tensely from sprained ankle when he
| fought his draw with Corbett, while he
was in the best of condition when he
met and defeated Slavin.
Again it was urged by the friends OF
| Corpett that, though he had been a
somewhat free liver. fond of fun. he
| had never INDUCED in excuses of any
| kind that were at all calculated to i'm
pair his physical vigor. He was also
much younger than Sullivan, and the
surgeon who had measured him had
| pronounced him bigger man than his
! burly antagonist.
There were also many who backed
Corbett for this fight who had won
thousands of dollars on Sullivan in his
former battles, but who believed that a
prize fighter who had taken even the
best of care of himself must begin to 20
down hill before reaching Sullivan's
age. They thought he had made the
mistake of staying too long in the ring.
as so many had done before him. and
that his Wellington and Waterloo were
to come from the young California
giant and the great arena of the Olym-
pic club.