The evening world., 1893-11-02
sPORT|NG NEWS AAO GOSSIP.
John 1. Says Height and Reach
Don't Count in Fighters.
English Champion Bacon Wants to
Meet Conner.

joni l.. Sullivan has been interviewed
again on what he thinks OF Corbett and
Mitchell. or rather Of their respective
merits, and he is credited with a
remarkable statement: Reach and
height don't cut any more figure IN "A
prize fight than they do in a boat race"
Is the remark that Sullivan Is said to
W. made H. st. Louis. Sullivan does
OF say how much figure reach and
I eight cut In a boat race, so the remark
Is a bit ambiguous.
Sullivan is quoted as saying that he
,uInks Mitchell should win. and presum-
ably one OF his reasons for so thinking
Is that Corbett's greater height and
reach would be Of no help to him
Reach and height don't always win, but
that they are advantages to the one
possessing them, Sullivan himself proba-
bly, knows as well as anybody else.
Speaking of pugilists and their ways,
an old-timer III matters flstic says: Il
hear a good deal these days about men
being a credit to the prize ring because
" are gentlemen. To my mind, that's
all nonsense. Being a gentleman doesn't
make a man a credit to the prize ring.
He can. OF course, be a fighter and be. "A
gentleman, but a man is a credit to the
prize ring when he's a master of his art.
A man who drir IS a glass OF wine after
an encounter Is none the less a credit to
the profession than one who drinks milk.
provided he Is a master OF the profess
Sion
A Boston despatch. telling Of Mitchell's
show last night, says:
The benefit was a magnificent success in every
way but one. Most Of the boxing was done by
the audience. but II saw and heard Mitchell and
apparently went home satisfied. Most of the stage
bouts resembled a contest you might expect be-
' tween a couple Uf rhiCkpnS over n FkTly SrTaD.
Harry Tracy. However. in his contest with Nc
huline. carried on the honors o, the evening.
II honOrs they were. His work was much ad-
mired by the crowd. and he won many hackers
for his coming fight with w0lcott. Jack was
Obliged to hustle in the last round.
Mitchell is highly indignant over the published
remarks Of Champion Corbett. Il do not be.
said Mitchell, ''and II he starts to carry out his
threat OF punching me IN sight he will find me
right in the same same with him. Jim Hall does
want to talk said Hall, when he told the
newspaper men about our meeting in New York
sit down, but il he did he said it low, and at
such a time that ! could not hear him. would
have told him to try and make me sit down"
The tie resulting from the club bowl
ing tournament held last week by the
Bayonne Rowing and Athletic Associa-
ton was rolled of last night. The
game was won by John Herber's team.
winning team is composed of Messrs.
Herber (Capt,l Preston, Wilson. Bal.
lard and w. u. Brown. Capt. Herber
remarked THIS morning that Capt,
Cooks men were dead easy"
1t is the chief ambition of F. f. Ba'
con, the English amateur champion mile
runne to get on a ace with Tommy
Connect, OF his city. holde of tbs
worlds record for a mile-.17 As. Ba.
con had high hopes OF meeting Connef
at Chicago this Fall. but no club Offered
to send him, and it's against the Eng
lish amateur rules to ask to be sent.
Writing 10 a friend in this city re
Gently, Bacon said that It wouldn't tax,
much of an inducement for him to eros
the Atlantic to meet Conner. He say
that II there was to be any big White
meetings here, and he could be assure,
Of a race, he would come. The Engllsl
runner recently made a try in Londol
for Connects record, but failed griev
ously. This same friend to whom h
writes, says Bacon might beat Con
neff day in and day out, III II the littl
Irishman is on edge nothing living cal
beat him."