The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-22

and is exciting deep interest. tnlnR
Slavin will win. My reasons are these: AT
close range Slavin is the better man and
the harder hitter. At long range jackson
is the cleverer man, but still not 80 hard
hitter In seeing jackson box it seems to
me that he is little TIE slower. Slavin's
muscles are more supple and elastic: IL
makes him better in-hghter. jackson
will probably fight by preference
at long range and somewhat on
the defensive. But II two men are
equally matched in weight there is no such
thing as one holding the other off through
out a contest II two men are standing up
and willing to fight, the man who leads Is a5
a disadvan .age, but if one is retreatlng the
other can jump in and force an exchange @.
blows Slavin is man who won't be oeuled
by ANYBODY. jackson has phenomenally
long arms, but the superior suppleness OF
Slavin makes up for what would otner"lse
be all advantage of reach.
Some men who saw the Slavin~kilrain
fight formed wrong opinion OF SlaVln. L
did it first. He seemed careless, and 1t was
natural to say that If he gave such OPP
portunities to quick, hard hitter like Sui"
iivan or Corbett he would be likely to lose
the fight. Really he had speedily f)rned
his oDinion of Kiirain and did not fear him.
He was only trying to draw Kllraln up TO
him and was willing to accept any eX-
change. Moreover, Slaviu wasn't In conal-
ton. He was sick and was a good
deal below his weight. he Welghen
about III, and now he is about 1874. There
il something in the English climate that
gives man weight, and this added muscular
tissue. with his better general condition
will make Slavin much more formidable
than when he defeated kilrain in Hoooken
I think it will he quick fight. SlaVln has
the right idea in fighting with big gloves:
In that sort of a contest man must nit
very hard. It's the jarrlng blow tnat
counts A man should fight for vital
noints-for the jaw or the nose. The old
time pugilist, fighting with bare knuckles,
made n great point of binding his oppon-
ents. He couldn't afford to cut looss
for general results. because his
hands were not protected and he
feared to disable himself. But with gloves
the man who strikes the bio" runs much
less risk, and, on the other hand, IN glVlng
an opening to his opponent, he need not Tear
a light lab. The quick, hard hitter can
afford to force the fighting and accept ex>
changes. He wants to be as close TO MS
onno1ent as he can be aud have room to
strike his blow. Barring accidents, feel
sure that Slavin will win. In that case,
there is no reason to believe that he VIII put
anv obstacles in the way OF ngnt WIZ sne
future American champion, ana InAe Will
decide the cham pionship of the world.
The Fitzsimmons-Hall fight does not In
volve championship, for II Fltz got tne
worst of it he would still he champion
middle weight of America, because the men
are to fight at catch weights. The middle
weight championship of Australia is in dis
pute. Hall claims the honor; SO does Fitz;
so does Micky Dooley. England has a
middle weight champion whise title Is IN
djsDuted-Ted Pritchard. Anybody to be
middle weight champion OF the World must
II ia hard TO prophesy. Hall seems TO be the
better boxer, but Fitz looks stronger in the
breast and arms. Hall is more supple, and
he ia a GOOD 2-handed hitter. He will proba-
biy weigh about 40, aud Fitz will be only
little lighter. .o.,.. -