The Irish standard., 1895-06-15
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me, but not o. crowd 0f pHople, and when =
have been drinking Grow Always have
made me irritable and sroile e ith my
naturally bed ternpers it yexes mo very
much to have anytbody tch held sao 4 me
or try to get in my way to stop me when
am going ny. I1ots of people d, that 70
me, and 4 suppose q have nasde them
think sometimes that am not a.nliable,
but + ann @ 81 e
Although this statement was. made very
icarelessly and without any obvious pur-
pose, 1t Is d fact tttatt cannot be contra
dicted that Sullivan, sober, u an amiable
man Z St5S.sS RI Sii5}..
TO be sure,he is sometimes unnecessar-
lily profane, with frank disregard for
conventional restriction and Limitation
| that is often grotesque, but the manner IN
which he sWears shows that he attaches
positively no Significance to his oaths,
which, In his case, have come to be mere
gap-flllers in the structure Of speech. But
he really is an exceedingly amiable man,
| and to strangers who have come into his
company through the introduction Of
friends, he 10 not only polite, but ingrat-
rating and attractive. H SN$;3sS5
! AS he sat at his table in the bar-room
of the hotel, out of all the men who con
stantly came and went nearly half show
ed a disposition to salute the big gray
haired figure with the peculiarly square
and heavy Jaws and the restless eyes,
! that shed a dull CLEAN; and nearly one
| fourth actually came UP to him and asked
to shake his hand. 3 s1s
! Two or three drunken men persisted in
| interrupting him while he was talking,
and one man acted with great discount
esq., and was softly rebuked.. Another
man had his fingers squeezed in the iron
clasp Of the great fighter, and he went
away sorroWful, with .bibulous shuttle.
! azIRe feh nsema stamOua. OtsD wa EE
us this John L. Sullivan p a tall, we'll
! dressed man asked in an excited voice,
breaking in on conversation.
That's my name,'' said Sullivan.
| "May I shake your hand?' the man
said.
with pleasure" Sullivan answered
thrusting out his big hand, and the cere-
mony was concluded.
A little boy came into the room selling
flowers and papers, and Sullivan and he
recognized each other as old friends.
"Have a pink, john" the boy said
and Sullivan took flower and let the
youngster climb up over him and fasten
it in his buttonhole.
| A little while before an old friend of
the fighter had come in and given him a
roll Of bills for some seats at benefit,
and Sullivan gave a bill out of the roll to
the youngsteraaCp, r'hdF co.. CMFWY
the boy and sent him away with a; grufiy
affectionate parting.
"Those damned fellows all know me,
he said between blush and grin.
''That fellows known me since he was a
boy" and he laughed at his little
Pretty soon Bill Hogarty passed by
with two or three bright little boys, and
saluted John.
"Those two on the inside are Bills
children. That good looking fellow is
my sisters boy" Sullivan said.
Speaking little later of his sister, he
siad slowly, ''She's all right"
1t would be difficult to find an eulogy
that ever carried so much conviction in
its tones as these simple words conveyed
as uttered in the deep voice Of Sulli-
van. IS n &
While he sat at the table he received
some mail. He opened q letter that
came from a man in New York, who said
he had been converted, and read it aloud.
It was long printed statement OF how
the author had obtained salvation, and
it was not signed even by an initial, al
though Sullivan was urgently requested
to send an answer to it. 1t contained
arguments for religion and sullivan's
comment as he folded the letter and put
It in his pocket, was characteristic:
'<If lever get religion won't be
ashamed to sign my name to IT,
Sullivan drank nothing Intoxicating
all day, but he consumed many goblets
Of q mineral water that he likes 10
drink, and thinks is good for his health.
and he smoked cigars continually. On
the subject Of his health he has very
definite ideas, and he doesn't think much
Of what the doctors say.
...sI don't believe the doctors believe
half the things they tell" he says with
shrewd irony, ",becadse they've always
told me not to drink or smoke and I've
caught them doing both the next day.
| AS for myself I don't believe drinking
does q man like me SO much harm; as
smoking does, and when I drink and
smoke too, know am injllring my
self. Sea bathing always weakens me,
and I'LL not train near the sea again
when / do 60 into training. cant train
in the summer, and there isn't any use
for the to try, but know can do It In
the winter, when can eat and keep
suppl wing the waste that training makes
in mans system. II don't eat well
enough III the summer to do that. s
Inevitably the COW ersation drifted to-
ward the Subject Of fighting, and Sullit
van spoke freely about himself
II always went into q fight" he safd,
with a feeling Of complete confidence:
/ never thought before entering the ring
Of what I'd do after i got there. | sup
pose / had too much faith in myself.
Some people say that ought never to
have fought Corbett, and men have told
me that Ii ssheedy had been with me he
wouldn't have let me fight again. Well
that's nothing but talk. Nobody could
have kept me out Of that ring at New
Orleans I was the champion, and felt
that / had to fight any good man that
wanted to fight me. had no mortgage
on the championship, and it couldn't
belong to me unless 1 kept myself the
champion by licking all Corners. I
.Another thing, had to fight TO get
money. was BROKE and broken
man will do anything that's fair for
money. It was q lot Of money to 60 at.
ter and il thought / could win It as
easily as turning my hand over. SheedT
was d good man, but he couldn't have
kept me ont OF that ring, and wasn't
buncoed into 1t by any one. It looked
to me like one Of the softest things that ma
ever had come my way. j never sup
posed the fight would last ten rounds. ' !.
The CLEAN IN Sul1iyans eyes was deep
and steady, his jaws were set together
till his lips formed a straight thin line.
II Vas easy stD see that he was very
much disturbed. He changed the SUBJ ll5l