The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-12
GOSSIP OF BOXERS.
Report That John L. Sullivan
Will Fight Maher.
IF PETER WHIPS FlTzsIMMoNs.
The Irish Champion and the Great
Middie-Weight to Meet March
jackson and Slavin May 80.

CHICAGO. Feb. IA private communl-
cation bearing the signature of John l..
Sullivan, received by personal friend IN
this city today, states that Sullivan on
February attached his name to articles
of agreement to fight to finish with five
ounce gloves, Queensberry rules, with
Peter Maher, for $35, 600 before the Metro
politan club, of New Orleans, and side
bet of 3d. 900, some time during August,
providing Maher whips Fitzslmmons.
The next pugilistc events of great interest
are set down for the second day OF March, and
they will take place in New Orleans. The Me-
tropolitan Club will have a battle with Tom
Ryan, of Chicago, aud Danny Needham as prln-
eipaIs The Olympic Club will have the Maher-
Fitzsimmons contest On March =, the last day
of the Mardi Gras festival, there will be thou
sands of people from other sections in the Cres-
cent city, and fully ten thousand have hank
ering to witness scrap. The amphtheater OF
the Metropolitan Club will accommodate only
half that number, and that of the Olympic CLUB
is even smaller; SO it is an assured fact that
both arenas will be well filled and that the
financial results to each club will be greater
than the ordinary. 1t is true that Maher
greatly outmatches the Australian. He is as
tall is heavier and can hit harder; but Fitzsim-
mons can get no middls-weight to fight him.
and even il he is defeated he Will still
hold the championship in his class. Maher,
too, has been unable 20 get a fight with
a heavyweight. The best man Msher ever met
was Peter jackson, who made him take off the
gloves in two rounds.
Peter Jackson, champion of Australia, and
Frank Savin, champion OF England, will fight
in London May 30, during Derby week. The
San Francisco Chronicle says:
The Eastern journals all testify that Peter
Jackson has had fine reception there. Good
behavior will tell in the long run, and Peter
has always tried to be straightforward, manly
fellow, and succeeded far better than most
pugilists When Director George A. Knight got
up in the California club and declared few
weeks ago that Peter Jackson was "the whitest
man that ever stepped into the California club
ring" he out of order from parliamentary
standpoint, and quite irrelevant as well, Tor
the question had not been raised and was not at
all under discussion. Nevertheless Mr.. knight
was applauded, and every one OF the
1000 or so ring goers who heard him CO.
incided with the declaration. Peter has
been as white in his professional career
in San Francisco as if every drop in his veins
was of the purest Caucasian, and 1t would be no
disparagement to say OF the Anglo-Saxon pugs
that have figured in the ring that few
have lett good a record to be remembered by.
Therefore in the East Peter, on returning, finds
that the pleasant recollection OF his former
visits stands him in good stead. He draws well
and the newspapers speak kindly of him. This
doubtless eolors their judgment to some extent,
and the general expression is of confidence
that he will defeat Slavin next May, ii in good
fix. There win hardly be any question OF that.
He will certainly be well trained, but whether
he will whip his tall couutryman is not by any
means a certainty.
Some of the Eastern critics do not fancy
Slavin's appearance. They think he looks more
like a foot-racer than pugilist. He is big
enough, however. He stands six feet one and
half inches which is an inch taller than Jack
son. He is ten pounds lighter than Peter, who
weighs about 1915 pounds III first-class fix. His
chest measurement is iorty-one aud one half
inches, an inch bigger than Peters. slavin's
best point is his legs, on which he is very
nimble, and this gives him the great hitting
power he showed when he slogged Joe Nc
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