The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-11
COSTLY AS BRUTAL.
uuAr THE PUBLIC PAID TO SEE
coRBRrT DETHRO SULLIVAN.

,oRBRTT DETHRONE SULLIVAN
49,. Less Than 12o,ooo-Abous 400
Nsw Workers Paid $3.50 Each for the
Nav Orleans Trip-About 100000
In the Bets.
From the Net1 York Press.
Nvw ORLEANS, Sept. THE fight be-
.,-oon James ]. Corbett and John L. Sulli-
.an was remarkable in more than one
respect.
90 v,taess a prize-Aght. Probably not in
tbis generation will so much money be
uDent again to see one.
Many O political meeting In New York
has represented twenty times the wealth Of
che 600 spectators who saw the champion
rpvilist of the world knocked out and new
Ming Of sports crowned.
Many audiences at the Metropolitan opera
honse have represented a hundredfold
more money, but the spectators last night
- fifty times as much as any political
rs msetinR ever cost in this country, and
pa+ti when she drew for a single night
40 0OO to the Metropolitan opera house,
J+aw onIv one-tentb as much as was actually
lid To see Corbett dethrone Sullivan. The
honest exponent of musical art the can
draw $4,000
THE BETTING, TOO.
craat az were the odds in their favor the
srisnds Of the ex-champion the country
Ger we're at least IS 900 900 poorer when
the battle was over than when their fevorite
stepped into the ring short ninety minutes
before.
FAR within the limit as the following facts
will show.
From New York and vicinity there were
delegations about the ringside that in the
aggregate must have numbered at least
200. Their expenses amounted to no small
snm. The bulk of them were men in fairly
good circumstances, and all we're of the
kind who In providing for the day have
never thought Of the morrow.
They spend freely. and when not about
che fights and fighters we're in the pool
rooms gambling on the races. What that
together with the defeat of Sullivan cost
them along the line OF speculation 1t is
almost impossible to approximate. Their
legitimate expenses may be summarized as
follows:
/ 200 railroad fares at Ss4 each s 40. 500
1900 sleeping berths for journey, 81
each way .................. 1880
10 meals each on train to and from New
orleans for /, 200 at 81 each. ........... 49, 200
s days hotel fare in New Orleans, 1900
at S6 each: ...........-.. .......,..... 1890
at $40 each. ........:.....,......, -. $4,000
1900 reserved seats at Corbett-Sullivan
fight, at $50 each. -. ............... $4,000
Premiums paid on tickets and for priv
IeEes Of boxes. at least ..-..,,........ 1000
Cab fares to and from the three fights
at lowest prices charged, 1900 at Sl5
each.....!............. .'............... $4,000
Estimated cost to the New York and
Brooklyn delegations exclusive en-
tlrely OF betS............ ..-.-.....,. $iS6, 600
The loss Of employment to some would
be a item, but to the great bulk, who either
live by their wits, or have money sufficient
to enable them to live without work, this
iJem is not considerable. Great in volume
as ib seems, 1t must fall far short Of the
actual expenditures, allowing as it does
nothing for the bars and bazars and other
affairs pstronized at land Office prices.
1t is merely the bare cost of travel and
living. Everybody recognized them as New
Workers and taxed them accordingly.
From Boston party Of 1000 came at a
lump sum Of $3.50 each. which included ad-
mission to the Corbett Sullivan fight
AS these degenerate Purftans were landed
here on the Sabbath in plenty Of time for
the 3-night carnival, it would hardly be do
ing them an injustice to conclude that they
paid each so admission to the McAuliffe
eAhu Wv W thO OAAOh ukuL respectively.
which would make the aggregate cost to
the BostoniAns $4,000 without allowing
them a cent for fruit or the juice thereof,
and assuming that they were athletes
enough to walk to aud from the club. II
they did not the little item of cab fare
would Increase their bills to Sl85, 900, or
only about s., 900 less than their more reck-
less Gotham brethren.
So far as the betting is concerned every
who CamR from Nav Vnrk mo uuit
the intention Of betting. 1t cost Charlie
Johnston S25, 600 and Jimmy Wakeley
close to $4,000. Foxhall Keene sent in
5000 on Sullivan to the pool rooms, and
John Kelly, acting for a syndicate Of sporty
base ball players, scattered away $3.50.
Jack McAuliffe took So 500 of his own
money, part Of the earnings Of his victory,
aud bet them on Sullivan. Jacks seco d,
Jimmy Nelson, was also out 81 ,S00-S1, 200
That DicN Roche had given him and $500
Jack had made him a present of.
1T would have been 81, 800 ;" said Jimmy,
but | didn't have it. l don't mind the
money, though, for I'd have gone in hook
Tor year If l could have saved the big
fellow" Billy Reynolds, the unfortunate
who backed Jack Skelly, went down IS, 900
deeper on the ex-champion, and commits
sion Of Mike Dwyer, executed at the st.
Charles hotel just before the men went into
the ring, lost the turfman 5000. Tom
Eagan OF Brooklyn bet IS 900 to $4,000 and
till, the bookmaker, took Sl2, QUO gamble
on the wrong end. Davy johnson lost
$500, and Matt Allen sent down $1,000.
These figures alone foot up to Sl02, 500.
Of the 200 New Workers certainly 1000
were Sullivan mon. and an extremely low
estimate OF the money they wagered would
De SlUO, and even that would be absurdly
low, 30 that the cost in total to the Gotham
delegation would be:
Cost Of transportation, club ad mission,
. etc, as outlined above .........,....S 1SS 900
Losses Of big betters, summa Iled
aooNe, ...................... lO2 500
Losses Of the average 1000 at 800 49,. 100000
A0'0A ''-''''' .-.-......s..-' s.ss'.' ,S5sO,uOU
Add to this the expenses OF the Boston
contingent and the total cost to the delega-
lions OF the two great Sullivan cities, New
0rk and Boston, at the ring side and Incl
dental to getting there, would be $475, 800.
chicago was wildly Sullivan, too, and the
hanklns family, who had lost heavily on
myers, sent members who took the Sullivan
END to get square, landing the Garfield
parK people to the tune of $4,000. Ed
SsGorrigan bet the same way and SO did
Wightman.
Jim Brown, the turfman who was killed
AZ Chicago on Monday, had only that fore
noon telegraphed here 81, 900 on the big fell
low, as did Tom Kiley, the jockey. pike"
barnes, the ex-jockey, too, together with
MS partner, Tony Williams took all the