The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-08
HEAVYWEIGHT PUGS.
Fighters Who Are Looking for
the Championship.
An Old Ring Follower Gives Some Opinion
on the Coming Battle Between
CoTbett and Sullivan.

The great match between Peter jackson
and Paddy Siayn. which will take place in
England on the 30th Of next month. has
simply been lost sight OF since the announce
ment was made that Professor James Cor
bett of this city and John Lawrence Sulli-
van OF Boston had been matched for the
championship aud to which is attached a
comfortable fortune. Probably one of the
best authorities on the Pacific Coast on
fighting matters. who Is well known 10 the
fraternity, expressed himself 10 a represent
alive of THE CALL yesterday on the pro-
posed great battle between Sullivan and
Corbett as follows:
well, If nothing unforeseen happens TO
break off an important engagement we will
hear OF the great John l.. Sullivan in the
ring again ard with natiye-b born son Of the
Golden West.
People who are interested in fighting
matters are aware of the conditions. The
latter, TO say the least, are remarkable, be-
cause OF the enormous amou mt OF money
there is at stake. 1t the conditions are car
ried out there will be fully S45 900 at issue
The Olympic Club OF New Orleans offers
So 600, and each fighter puts up So 600 as
stake money. just fancy that How the
Old-timers who were accustomed TO stand
on the turf and see champions do battle for
changes in the way of encouraging an army
OF lighting gadiatOrs.
WHO ever thought twenty years ago that
the sporting public would ever subscribe a
fortune CT $50, 600, just for the sake OF see-
ing two big able bodied fellows scrapping
with pillows for championship?
LEAVING THE PAST BEHIND.
Surely we are leaving the past long way
behind. Our modern pugllist Of front
rank kind can spend more money in night
than some of the old-time champions fought
for in a year. There must be tremendous
amount Of money in the boxing business in
this country, because the $4,000 at issue
must come out Of the public's pocket
eventually.
The Olympic Club directors must expect
that they will receive IL ore than s25,O
And all that money just 10 see a big, POM
pous heavyweight trying 10 knock the head
off a clever and weak puncher. Well, don't
1t sound as If the majority of insane sport
Ing men was outside Of the asylums?
1T is not surprising that almost everybody
interested In boxing and pugilism in the
country should think that COrbett wont be
In 1t when he meets the lion OF the ring In
TACT, 1T does not sound strange to NE TO hear
number OF people remarking that Corbett
will never meet the big fellow. There never
was puglliSt In any country who had such
great hold on the public as John l.. has.
Thousands who have never seen Sullivan,
and who have little or no idea of pugilism,
believe him to be the greatest man that has
ever lived as far as fighting is concerned.
lie has been the theme If sermons, the SUBJ
ject Of pages OF newspaper matter, and the
burden OF talk and conversation in every
nook and corner of the country.
POPULAR NOTION
ut is no wonder that there should be such
a popular notion Of the mans proves, and
such an Implicit faith in his ability TO defeat
anything that is human.
Taking all things into consideration
there is really no good reason to believe
that Corbett Will decline to fight Sullivan,
nor that the latter will kill Corbett in few
rounds if they do happen to clash. / still
remember. as do all other men interested in
fStic sports, what tie popular opinion was
when Mitchell was matched against Sulli-
van. Why, some of the most prominent
sporting writers of the old and new conn
tries declared that Mitchell would never go
INTO the ring, and others stated that II he
did toe the scratch in two or three rounds
Sullivan would be gazing down upon his
dead and mu;ilated body
John i. talked very extravagantly re-
gardlng what he was going to do with the
Engisbman. Well, l can very clearly re-
member that Sullivan failed to carry out
any of his intentions. Mitchell went into
the ring, and nob'dy was killed, and it Is
pretty safe TO say that matters will be SINH
lar when Sullivan again goes TO war
ITO be sure, Sullivan's chances of vic
tory-that Is, provided he will be in condl-
ton for business-are much better than
those OF Corbett in a fight governed by
Queens berry rules, but il is yet too early to
figure on result.
IN CASE OF DRAW
IF a draw can be made possible, [ would
certainly bet that wav, as 1 cannot get IL
into my head, notwithstanding Corbett's
cunning and cleverness, that he can HIT
hard enough to bring the big fellow TO his
terms at any stage of the game Corbetrs
style Of fighting or boxing is Just that kind
that will enable him 20 dodge round for two
or three hours. and If he can avoid SuIli-
vans PUSHES, which l think he is capable of
| doing, then il is hard To say what the result
will be. If Corbett can make tile battle a
| draw-which there can be no other result IL
Sullivan should happen TO be so far gone or
| exhausted as 10 lack sufficient force 10 knock
| COrbett Quit will be to him a victory.
while Sullivan's stock will retroggde TO an
| enormous extent.
1.-The contest, however, will not decide
| the championship OF the world. Sullivan
| has not won the title, although he claims II,
| nor has lie defeated a man who has. Cor
| bett has certainly no claim TO lt. The battle
| Is, If for any title at all, for the CHAMPION
| ship Of the United States II Sullivan
| should defeat Corbett and Jackson whip
| Slavin, won't there be music in the air If
Sullivan should again draw the cDlOr limo nm