The evening world., 1893-11-02
NEWS ANO GOSSIP.
Eohn /. Says Height and Reach
Don't Count in Fighters.
lpslish Champion Bacon Wants to
Mest Conner.

onh l.. Sullivan has been Interviewed
oain on what he thinks Of Corbett and
Nj chell. or rather of their respective
mftts. and he Is creditcd with n
remarkable statement: Reach and
height don't cut any more figure IN n
rrfe fight than they do in a boat race"
Is he remark that Sullivan is said to
hate made ii 81. Louis. Sullivan does
rol say how much figure reach and
iekht cut IN Il boat race, so the remark
Is a hit ambiguous.
Sullivan Is quoted as saying hat he
t'nits Mitchell should win. and presum-
ahy one of his reasons for so thinking
Is that corbett's greater height and
reich 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 pugllists and their ways,
an old-timer in matters nstic says: II
hear n good deal these days about men
peing n credit to the prize ring because
~ are gentlemen. To my mind, that's
III nonsense. Being, a gentleman doesn't
lie can, of course. be n fighter and be a
B.ltleman, but a man Is n credit to the
fize ring hen he's Il master of his art.
.Nman who drinks a glass of win after
q Ia none the less q credit to
tn profession han one who drinks milk.
divided he Is a master Of the profess
! SIM"
=! Boston d7spitch. telling OF Mitchcli's
shN last night, says:
Ne benefit was \ magnificent success In every
way but one. Most O. the boxing WIS done by
tie audience. hut 1t saw and heard Mitchell and
abnfently wont homo satisfied. Most Of the stage
bout rcser'bled q contest YOU might expect be-
'"rri a couple 81 chickens over a stray scrap.
inry Tracy, lowcySr, in his contest with Nc
II honors they were. His work was much adj
min! by the crowd, and he won many hackers
J Tor his coming 1ght with Walcott. Jack was
obltei to hustle In the last round.
MtChelI is highly Indignant over the published
rrmrks OF champion %rorbett. II do not be:
said Mitchell. ''and II he starts to carry out his
thr1a Of punching ma % sight he viii md ms
not Ike what Corbctt said about him. ''Iie must
want 10 talk. said Hall, when he told the
newspaper men about our meeting in New York
the oter night; He might have told me to &c
sit dom. but II he did he said it low, and al
such ntime that I could not hear him. would
have I'D him to try and make me sit down"
A Little Rock. Ark. despatch says:
A telegram was received to-day hv the Hot
Springs athletic club from billy Hayes, one Of
Charley %iltchells hackers. stating that Mitchell
made by hat club. and Will fight In Hot Springs
in prefcre"e 10 New Orleans, provided the Ciut
erccts n titnble auditorium and deposits the
pure in ii bank for the winner OF the fight
1t is tip chief ambition OF f. L. Ba.
con, the English amateur champion mile
Connect. " this city, holder Of the
worlds record for a mile-4.l7 As. ia.
con had high hopes of meeting Connect
at Chicagothis Fan. but no club offereC
fish amatetr rules TO ask to be sent.
Writing b n friend in this city re
Gently. Bacon said that It wouldn't take
much Ct an inducement for him to cross
the Atlantic to meet nne He says
that " ther, was to be any big Winter
meetings hete. and he could be assured
of II race. ht would come. The English
runner receitly made a try in Londor
ously. This same friend to whom III
writes, says: Bacon might peat Con
nefr, day in and day out, but If the it'll,
irishinnn is on edge nothing living cal
It w'ild seem that lIarvard's football
o o not such m all-power,ul one
nave m unusually strong team thi,
year. far they scored against Harvard
Nesterds'. 4 goal from the field
rarity ln|IoOlDall SHlGtS--lS q hard thinE
to pHeVe1t, 1t is true, but when this
goal was kicked Andover had carried
the ball Il Harvard's Vineyard line.
There isroom for Improvement in Hlr.
wards defensive play when Andover car
advance TIN ball fifty yards into her ter.
ritory. Bui all the sams, Letton. the
Andover ful-back, who kicked the goal
Is entitled % full credit, for accurate
drop kicker are scarce. When Lrttor
leaves Ando'er there will be iiuch in,
terest manifested as to which university
he will then attend.
a tniversit of Pennsylvania concf
makes this criticism Of the Quaker team
I watched th' pack HclG particularly. md II
seems that knipsnnh Vail are the only reliable
tacklers In II, tn line seems to spread out too
much from the cotrc mi leave fatal holes ir
near tho t"n'r'. q The whole. tho team Eeerly
strong aggressirely and weak defensiycly.
That fault WIZ noticed here at East
ern Park. Then were some glaringll
large holes in the Pennsylvania line
II a similar state Of affairs exists Satur
day the Tigers will find spaces wild,
enough 10 drive wagons through.
Ike Weir ami Billy Murphy fight a
the Cribh Clb, in Ioston. tonight
Murphy has whipped Weir, but wha
little betting thae has been in this cit.
is In favor of the latter. One MAJ
offered odds on TIE Spider"
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