Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-09-12
SULLIVAN DECLINES.
Will accept No Fayors
from COrb6lt.
WAS SQUARELY DEFEATED
And Says That corbett Has Great
Chance 10 get Rich. M

NEW YoRg, Sept ia-John L. sulh-
van got hnek from New Orleans yesterday
at $40 .. m. on the New York Central
road, accompanied by Charley Johnston.
His ca, which had be,nlcf over at Cincin-
matt, anu Also left his friends who were on
the forward cars of the train from Cincin-
natl. had been hitched on 20 another train,
which loft Cincinnati on Friday The ex-
champion came through the Grand Gen.
trail station with lowered aud pretty
well banged up head, until, Just as he
reached the gates, the crowd Of az least
300 Tint haa assembled began TO cheer
him, John bad not known exactly how
the New York people wonld recsiye him,
and this little noise OF reception made him
smile
A second later, somebody proposed bhree
cheers FOR lhe greatest champion yet
known" and III hands responded with a
viii Sullivan now held his head up and
bcamcd on the assemblage as he
Never Did when n Winner.
He was very much tiokled and passed out
of the station co the Vanderbilt Hotel a
block away, in better spirits than he had
been since he got licked. Policemen were
crowd IA the station and on the sidewalk
TO the hotel but John l. finally got
through them and did the right thing af-
Ter a long railroad journey-took bath
aud went ~ sleep. Just before he took
his nap howss asked n % was true that he
had declined he offer Of Corbett 20 give
him benefit
"Yes," said John, at Is true. I guess
that one defeat viii not stop me from go-
ing ahead, and / want no favors at the
hands Of a man who beat me. | can get
along without him. Corbett Is good
young fellow and he beat me fair, bat
don't want his services or his money.
Aint John T. Sullivan YETI"
sullivan took HIS nap and then received
hundrs on more friends who asked him,
In regular turn, how Il was that he came
30 be beaten A few had the nerve 10 ask
him bow De vas licked without making
return that could he called q good punch,
except one on C0rbets breast.
"Oh," replied John 10 these questions
81 couldn't got near him. He had too
long arms for the why, that young fell
lows armg stuck out like branches of a
treo, and he con biz hard punch, too
These stories about bis being clever but
having no hitting power are all rot He
sn hit like -- when he lands, aud
HIS Jahs Are Terrors
-=hara and fast He's all right and will
make biz reputation Tor himself"
"Do you think he will bold the cham
pionship rs long as you did2' was asked
you can't teli about that. " rcpl ed Sui
livan. "Ibcrc are TWO or three Of those
jabbers who ight get iu several times
on the nose and make him bleed and
weaken him ] scarcely think that any
man II as clever as Corbstt, hut you can't
tell There ia one thing can tell that Is
that the young man hes n bushel OF
thousands risht in his fists which he can
reap within year or So and II he takes
chances in aght before the end of that
time he is a d--d fool
That the biz fellow was sober when he
reached New York may be judged from
his talk in this interview. HE ilce sull
showed signs Of the cracking that Corbett
gave him. His nose, which had six
stitches put iu the skin that covered IL
after the fght was still slvoo'eu and his
lips protrudod 10th eyes showed signs
Of dark rims end le right cheek was Just
recovering FROM the hue 0f the darzey
How his stor sch, breast ud ios supearod
could not b al7cpve- l l1t tlet must
have had a terdency toward tine ebony.
Sullivan viii opeu with his show, IN
ProvidOnce, I'm two weeks