, 1892-04-30
JOHN /. SULLIVAN.
The Great Fighter Gets a Good
Send Off.
He is Said to be sober Now and
Realizes That He Will Have
Very Hard Work TO Defeat Cor


Very Hard work TO Defeat Cor
bett.
New York, May 30.-Macon Mccormick
the well known sporting writer of New
York, says 81 think Champion John T.
Sullivan fully appreciates the fact that in
September he is to be called on for the
greatest effort of his life, as the statesmen
say.
II am very glad to know that John L. has
been able to conquer his besetting fault
his love for strong drink. When not un-
der its influence he is the Ievelest- headed
man of his class and experienced have ever
met. Talk about your romances; if his ca
reer hasn't been a romance whose has
Born of poor parents and raised among the
humblest surroundings, with but modi-
cum of education, his physical prowess sur
rounded him with fatterers and sycophants
at an age when the sons of rich men are
but freshmen in college, being guided by
the precepts Of sages and looked after most
closely by professors of experience, skill
and sagacity in the government of youth.
At the age when the ordinary youth of
well-to-do family graduates from college
Sullivan was the champion of America
and sought after and adulated by men of
fame in nearly every grade of society. His
picture was as widespread and well known
as General Grants, and presidents vice
presidents, senators, congressman, mayors
of cities and lesser officials in shoals were
glad to be introduced to him and to shake
him by the hand. The idol Of the tough,
he has been the toast and the pet of club
men.
Said Maurice Barrymore to me the other
day, If Julius Cesar, Mark Antony, Alex
ander the Great, the Duke of Wellington,
Jim Blaine and dozen other of the great
east celebrities the world has ever known,
dead or alive, were to walk up Broadway,
arm in arm, and John Z. Sullivan was to
pass down the other side of the street, I'll
bet a dinner he would attract bigger
crowd than they would. y
Charley Mitchell, who hates him as in
tensely as Dick Wintersmith hates Cleve-
land, and whose hate makes him think
that Mrs. G. sis not handsome" (" bore testi-
mony unwittingly to Joints popularity
when he came here the last time. was in
his dressing room in Hyde & Behman's
theater, in Brooklyn, and wishing to draw
him out, said, II guess Sullivani is getting
played out" Quick as flash he turned
and replied, "Don't you believe it. He's
the greatest card today in the athletic
world, and he's bloody fool if he ever
risks his reputation again III a ring, for he
has nothing to gain and everything to lose
III be wasn't such a bloody spiteful duffer,
him and me could double up and make
$100, 900 next season. There wouldn't be a
house in the country large enough to hold
the crowds that would want to see us box.
played outP I wish I had him, and I'd
show you that he wasn't played OUT
Sullivan has had temptations that few
men have had to contend against. He
has yielded often; but men of stronger
made several fortunes and has spent them
foolishly; but many professional and bust
ness men have done so, also. He has
looked on the wine when it was red in the
cup, and also when it was as tawny as
lions name and as sparkling as the eyes of
beauty; but many of the greatest geniuses
of earth have set him bad example in this
respect, and without tithe of his provo
cation. In short, having the animal pas
sions abnormally developed, and being par
ticularly in the way Of temptation he has
not been saint or a saver. But there is
one thing that he has never done, and that
is to throw fight. He has been strictly
honest in his business, and / trust now,
that he has come to the years when men of
sense ''take stock Of themselves, as it
were, hewilI carefully invoice his health
and his possibilities, and make up his
mind that be will not only give his backer
a run for his money, but will also leave no
stone unturned that will enable him in
maintaining his capital. Defeat means
much more to him than it does to Cor
bett. 1t means the total wiping out of his
capital, while to Jim 1T only means tempo
rary impairment.