Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-08
SULLIVAN WEEPS.

| The Ex-Champion Utterly Broken Up by
His Defeat-Re Says He Was Too Old to
Fight-He Admits Booze Had q Good
Deal to Do With His Knockout
NEW ORLEANS, Sept Z-[Special J.
When Sullivan reached his room he wept
| like child over his defeat and ruin. His
seconds felt so much for him that they re-
| fused to allow any correspondent to cross
examine him, but THE DISPATCH cores
pondent was allowed to go to the side
window and exchange few words with him
| and his trainers. Sullivan talked at length,
and reiterated what he had said in the
! ring.
went in too often," said he. IT ought to
have left the ring years age. III was Corbett's
age 1 would have whipped him. Five
years ago could have whipped any man in
the world, but now I am licked Corbett is
the cleverest man 1 ever fought. 1 am ghd
/ was whipped, if had to be whipped, by
| an American citizen"
Just then. catching sight of McAuliffe,
who was taking drink from a bottle, he
exclaimed: 'That's what did it. Booze
knocked me out IF had let it alone 1
would have done better, but it knocked me
out I was getting too old, anyhow. 1
ought to have left the ring years ago I
stayed in too long, and now i am gone-com-
pletely done for.
The Ex-Champion Heartbrokan.
Charley johnson and others sought to re-
assure him, but it was no good. He contin-
ued to cry and lament his defeat.
johnson assured him that he was as
good man as ever. II will back
you again, John" said he. "You are
not used up. You are good for many fight
tomorrow to fight Charley Mitchell If you
were only trained properly and not break
away from your trainer again"
Sullivan, however, refused to be CON-
forted. 81 have cost you too much already.
Charley" said be- t'You have lost $40, 900
on me, and will not let you lose any more.
Poor John Sullivan is knocked out,
he is goner, and booze did 1t.
1 don't understand my defeat" he con-
tinued. 81 was good and as strong in the
last round as at the beginning. 1 felt
strong and fresh. The blows had received
had hurt and lost me a little blood, but 1
figured on long fight
Doesn't Know What Struck Him.
'eI don't know when or where the last
blow hit me- felt like was standing on
falling in the water 1 tried to catch
myself, but I toppled over and
could hear the water all around
me. 1 knew nothing more until
some minutes afterward, when found my
self seated in my chair and my seconds rub
bing me. Corbett was often clever and I
could not land often. He was the cleverest
fighter Lever met.
From the conversation between the
trainers 1t appeared that Sullivan had not
trained as well as he might, and had been
hard to keep in order He is thoroughly
heartbroken, and his friends fear that he
will take the matter seriously. He refused
to drink, and whenever he saw whisky about
continued to denounce it as the cause of all
his woes. Whenever johnson spoke about
his entering the ring again he shook his
head. 81 am too old, he said. 81 am
goner I won't go into the ring to be
iollied and chaffed. I ought to have left
the ring when was the champion"
His friends say that Sullivan has not q
cent left. The followers of Sullivan, who
regarded HIM as the greatest fighter in
the world, have lost fortune, but
nothing like the amount they would have
dropped had they courage to back their
own convictions The hotel corridors and
the streets ring with the praises of the new
champion.