Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-07
B0Xn4S GOSSIP.
MACON MCCORMICK TELLS OF THE POPULAR
ITY OF PUGILISTIO LETTERS
John L. Sullivan is Not the Hardest Hitter
on Rarth-Posa6ilifes Of CoFbet Defeat
ing the OAamPion-lntsresang
Gossip About Sport

lover" and all the world loves a brave
man, be 40 q soldier, sailor, an ex-
ploreY, a scientist, a physician, OF
prize fighter. know from personal ex-
perienca that the great bulk OF I1y
readers are men who never saw rs
tic egcounter between professional pngi-
lists. Let John L. Sullivan walk through
the streets Of any American
city on town, and people Will
tread on each Others heels TO get look
at him. Hs Is one of the curioSities OF
the day, and men aud women, too, want
to see what be looks like. Many have
saen him, but not ono In hundred OF
the people Of tho United States know
what he looks like by personal obServa-
ton. know that they Ike to read
about him.
Not long ago white Ia Washington, l
accompanied the Well-kuown Washing
ton correspondents, Billy MacBride, In
TO one OF the departments and was IN
trUduced TO a number OF the highest
officials IN 10. Halt of them told me
that they read my letters regularly.
The other day I received letter from
an old friend from which take the fol-
loving extract; Said be:
II have been reading your letters
steadily for the past ten years, but l
never before knew you 20 be so square
II aStrids OF the fence as you are now.
Answer mo iSirly and sQuarely. Don't
you know that John L. Sullivan IS the
hardest alter OF sny fighter that ever
lived, and DOM yoa Know that his mar
row escapes from defeat duck you call
IT'D were caused By his iailnT5 to train
properly? In short now that il Is GER
tain thes ne will enter the ring In bot
ter ahape thae he ever vas before, do
you really think Corbett haa one to
three chance azains, hirn?"
IiIam astride Of tho fence on the
Sullivan-Corbett fight II IS because do
not know which Is tho right side TO
stand on, and a good many other judges
OF pugllsm are In tho same f.X. Idon't
know either chat John l.. Sullivan is
aho hardest hitter of any fighter that
ever lived" 4 carpenter Is known by
his chips. Not one OF tho men who ever
faced 1.-THE champion OF champions"
was ever seriously injured by the blows
OF 'the hardest hitter that ever lived.
Take John Donaldson, for instance.
He boxed Sullivan twice. Once four
rounds % R0binson's Opera House
IN Cincinnati, aud then he fought him
eight or ten rounds with small gloves.
Hs com plaiGed Of being hall sick both
times, but 40 has since been hale and
hearty, as he Is to-day, somewhere Ia
the Northwest. Stephen Taylor was
half wreck, subject to hemorchNges OK
the lungs wheu ne meGSulllvan, but he
is alive to-day, and not much the worse
for bis cOmbst, go far Ss Is known. Tug
Wilson Is not in a hospital, but is keep
ing shoe store in Leiscester. PADDY
Ryan faced Sullivan three times, but
though ruptured before he met him, his
general heSlth Is very good,
and he can, and docs, eat
threa "sQuares' day with
comfort. Big John Flood is ss strong
as 81 OK to-day, and IS the picture OF
good health. Siede, the Maori. Is
hearty rsucher in Utah, All Green
field fOughs Sullivan twice, and Is
hearty to-day I'm England. So "a Char
ley Mitchell and Jack Burke, Big John
Lalfsn, Dom McCa1rey, Pstsy Cardiff,
Reddy Herald and Jake Kilran arc
all alive and in excellent health to-day,
An OF theae men have felt the honey
montgomery of "the hardest nit
ter that ever lived" but none
were seriously hurt thereby. Some
OF them were put TO - sleep Tor
tho time being, but Wilson, Mitchell,
Greenfield, Laffan, Burke, McCaffrey
and Cardiff were not knocked out even.
OF al the nen Sullivan ever fought
Kilrain was the most punished, aud
yet he hos been In tho ring since, and
he got moro punishment from Paddy
Slayln than no did from Sullivan. No,
l DOM think by any means taat Sulli-
vsn Is tho hardest hitter thst ever
lived. He has the knack Of landina
his right on the point OF mans jsw
and thereby knocking him into insensi-
billy, but Sullivan himself pleaded be-
fore court that no blow Of his had
ever seriously injured an opponent, and
he certainly ought TO know.
Now, as the last question Of my quer-
lst DO you really believe that Cor
bett has a oDe-to-threa chance against
him (Suilivan)," II will answer in
Yankee fashion by explaining. l be-
lieve that Sullivan will 90 into the ring
as veil and as stronS as 1t will be pos9-
ible for him to be- II, while he is fresh
and strong, or even comparatively 50,
he is able to lsnd his right on tho point
Of Coroott's jav, I will be much surpris-
ed II the contest does not terminate
then snd there In that event. jim
won't have chance IN a thousand. II,
on the other hand Sullivan is
unable 10 get home with
his right while be is fresh and strong
and he is compelled to fight Corbett at
long range, and believe Daring the
chapter OF accidents which upsets all
theories) Corbett viii win beyond the
oeradveature OF doubt. l may be
wrong, but that is my opinion. don't
think any man mot even John Nor
rlssey) ever lived who could counter hit
with Sullivan, or withstand one Of his
right-handers on the point Of the Jaw;
but 10 must be remembered that he has
zever been able 10 land his right
sQuareiy Ga the jaw OF o real clever
man, me most SCicHtluc men Ab eFtE
met were Dom McC,freY and Char
ley Mitchell. He wasn't In con-
dition when he met McCafrey
in Cincinnati, but he was thor
oughly trained, perhaps overturned,
when be met Mitchell at Chantilly. no
didn't land sQuSreIy on the Jaw Of eth
err OF these men, and he had plenty OF
time 20 90 so. lie IL coed deal slower
now than be was when he met Mitchell,
and he is going up against man far
quicker and cleverer than either Dom
or Charley. II his right fails him in the
coming encounter what has he to hope
for? lie isn't nearly so big or so strong
as the dig French wrestler, ApOllyon,