Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-08
BOXERS GOSSIP.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN MAKES ANOTHER VERY
BAD BREAK.
Be Admits That jim OOrbet! Did Not Knock Him
Out-The McAulifs-Burgs FiascO-JOs Nc
Grath Defeated, Buta Credit to Old Erin.
Billy Lssdom EclipSsd.


iudicious grieve exceedingly. The big
fellow is fonder than ever OF vinous
potations, and as his managers have
little or no control Of him he has "a
Jag on" most of mis- time. He had what
the boys call "beaut" on last Friday
night, and he refused to don his fight
ing clothes to spar in, but went on the
stage in his ful-dress suit and boxed
Ashton while thus arrayed. The next
night he excused himself by stating
that he had loaned his tights 10 Ada
Rehan to pose in as the model OF Justice
Tor the silver statue TO surmount the
Montana Building at the Worlds Fair.
When John reached New York he
was maudlin, and he told Herald rep
resentative that he had not been
whipped on his merits by Corbett, but
that he had been drugged in the inter-
est of gamblers by one OF his hackers,
and, though he didn't name him out
right, he referred to him so pointedly
that all sports knew that he meant Jim
my Wakely. He kept on talking until
he openly avowed what none but his Bit
terest enemies have ever asserted be-
fore, that Corbett did not knock him
senseless in New Orleans. He claimed
that his legs were wrong and that he
couldn't get on them again.
Eugene Cummisky, who at the time
was friend of Jim Corbett's said to me
on his return from New Orleans: MA
con, Sullivan was not knocked out.
He was knocked down, and, realizing
that he had no chance, stayed down I'M
til he was counted out. Then he was
assisted to his chair, and within
three minutes by the watch he was MAX
ing his speech to the spectators. No
man who had been knocked out could
have made such speech. Why, after
he had delivered it on one side of the
ring he walked across to the other side
of 1t and repeated it almost word for
word. Take my tip for it, he wasn't
out" AT the time l thought Gene was
so biased against Sullivan that he IN
Willingly did him injustice, but now
Sullivan himself corroborates him.
Well may the eX-champion exclam,
with Cassie. "Oh! that man will put
an enemy into his mouth to steal away
his brains" He has injured himself as
no opponent ever injured him, and he
has again made good the statement l
printed last spring, that he has quar-
relied with every man who ever had any
thing to do with his management. l
was the first; then came Madden, and
after him Al Smith, Pat SAeedy, Harry
Phillips and Jack Barnett. Now he Is
out with Charley Johnston and Wakely.
What an migrate.
BY the way, wonder now II john
ston and Wakely don't think they would
be a good deal better off in pocket lad
they not deliberately closed their eyes
to the true condition Of Sullivan while
he was training at Canoe Place Inn.
They were as mad as hornets at me be-
cause l would not place implicit conf
dence in the fairy stories that were sent
out from there relative TO Sulli-
vans condition. Ernest Jarrold, the
famed mickey Finn" erstwhlo OF the
New York Sun, went down to Sully's
training quarters to write reports for
the New York papers, and while there
Suly and his friends did everything
they could to hamper him because they
they thought he was my spy" l
don't employ spies, and in order that
Mickey might have a better chance
with Sullivan, ceased taking his re-
ports. All the time l got the best OF
information, and l got 1t merely by
reading between the lines of the talk OF
Sullivan's most enthusiastic supporters
who visited him. A week before the
fight Billy Recap, Of Philadelphia,
who had spent two days with
Sullivan, and had gone out
and walked and worked with him, sent
me word that he couldn't run, and that
he could only fight the bag spAsmodi-
cally. That night l bet z. Jay Dono-
hue a bottle of wine that Corbett would
win without black eye. BY the way,
p. jay, let us have that bottle when
next we meet, just TO celebrate the
New Year. saw Sullivan at his exhi-
bition in Brooklyn, and next morning l
printed the statement that while he
was as strong as he ever was, and able
to strike as hard blow, be had lost his
speed. accompanied Corbett as far as
Philadelphia on his way to the fight,
and before parting with him l said:
Jim, if you go into that ring devoid OF
fear of Sullivan, you will lick him so
easily that you'll be surprised" That
was right the sequel proved. How any
man who saw Corbett work at his Madi-
son Square Garden exhibition and then
watched Sullivan spar in Brooklyn
could be in doubt as 10 the result now
seems wonderful.
As soon as Sullivan read his remarks
In the Herald he denied them, but the
denial didn't go. am sorry that John
L. didn't have more sense. Had be
stuck by the speech he made in the
ring it would have been better for him.
That was manly acknowledgment
that he had stayed toe long in the ring,
and he touched responsive chord in
every patriotic heart when he said that
he was glad that it was an American,
and not foreigner, who had wrested
the championship from him. He will
never again make so effective speech.
OF course Sullivan's talk has set Jim
Corbett wilC, and he offers to knock
him out in tour rounds. He will fight
him. too, next October. He will never
ret the chance. Sullivan's fighting
DAYS are over. His talk proves that he
has aged ten years since September.
The Jack McAuliffe-Dick Burge
iasco has beea the sensation of the
week Jack outwitted his antagonist
At every r1int save one. he made 4
great mistake in going to Ben Benton's
room. Each party tells different
story as "A the occurrences in the room,