The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-06

vantage n reach ana to whom he concea-
ID ave pounds In weight KIDS cnly
danger lay In overmAsching himseiK ne
might do that ~ there are no 10 p0uno
men breathing who have gnost OF
show with him Jack MaAuline can no
longer get to that weight. and ne - the
only one who could hold him Wnen
Jack and Jim Carney were IN their prime
either would have been . splendid match
for the Kid They were as far superior
to the iightwsixhts OF America and Eng
land In their day as Kid LAvfnge - TO
those Of the present time
Another wonderful little fighter. ~
greas In his class a. Kid LAvinSe -
among the NEhtweights. 10 George DIX
on Like the Kid he has whipped the
recognized featherweight champions OF
al countries. Fred tombstone and Nunc
Wallace. OF England. Abe Wills ana
Jerry Marshall OF Australia and Cal NC
carfhy. SoIly Smith and q host Of others
OF America There is only one dan
gerous little chap in his path now. that
Is Willie Smith, OF England, VINO near
Is q remarkable youngster. IL DIXON don
stumble on him he ought to be good Tor
three or four years yet as ne IS NO"
only IS. believe.
Thers are two oAntams 1t the present
ed upon by his friends a. . world peAtef.
One Is Pedlar Palmer, or England, who
defeated clever Billy Plimmer In Lon
don last fail. the other Jimmy Barry, OF
America, who has easily trounced every
man he has ever met In finish con-
test / would bet on Barry. Palmer 10
the better boxer, In fact tho cleverest lit
tie man in the world with the possible
exception OF Young Critic. but Barry 10
AL At<- IT, u
kicking mule and is very clever too. clever
enough for all fighting purposes. and
hard hitting between two men almost
evenly matched generally wins the day
Palmer is magnificent boxer but from
the showing he made with Georges Dixon
In New York don't think he would turn
out wonderful fighter. He could out
bon the little colored boy at every point,
but when 1t got to real hard infighting
towards the close Of their six round bout
young chocolate showed Up the best and
Pedlar acted as II he didn't like grueIling
very much.
OF the middleweights, Bob FYtxsim-
mons is easily the best, IL he can still get
TO that limit. as he says he can. If he
cannot then / think the championship of
that class lies between Dan Creedon, OF
Australia, who whipped Prank Craig, the
Coffee Cooler, In England not long ago,
and Kid Mccoy. of America, who re-
Gently lowered the coiors OF the appar-
emily invincIbie Tommy Ryan OF course
/ assume that Jim Hall cannot get TO
middle weight any longer although he
says he can. II he can do that he can
whip either OF them and come pretty near
doing the trick for golden haired Robbie
F1izsimmons I wouldn't bet cent either
way on fight between Hall and Fitz-
simmons.
There are three great welterweights In
this country and one In England The
Engiishman is Dick Burge, whom Kid La
vinge recently defeated, and the Ameri-
cans are Tommy Ryan. Mysterious
Billy Smith and Joe Walcott. the .SBlack
Demon" Ryan and Smith can both, I
think, whip the black chap at lao or 145.
because the black-a-moor would be liable
to quit II hurt. am told he wanted to quit
with Kid Lavigne In the fourteenth
round Of their great fight Cat light
weight limip at Coney island when
Lavigne won. At 14o or 142 pounds
think Smith can whip Ryan, but at 145.
| think Tommy would have the best OF
the argument About Burge / am puz-
zled. Kid Lavigne whipped him TO be
sure, but that was at f3S pounds. Ryan,
Smith and Walcott all seemed afraid to
take him on at las pounds. his best
weight. because he had been whipping
Weiterweights and middleweights In Eng
land and even tackIing heavyweishts
like Jem Smith. ex-champion of Eng
land. They might go him now, since the
Kid whipped him. at 145 pounds. II any Of
the trio do 1 twink Ryan would have the
best chance of thrashing him.
In q class all by himself comes Young
Critic, the little Australian. He takes on
featherweights, lightyeights. welter-
weights and even middleweights- He can't
whip any champion in any class because
he can't punch hard enough, but no cham
pion under middleweight can whip him.
for he has the most magnificent guard OF
any man who ever entered the squared
circle. He has splendid eye as well as
nerve, and toss aside blows as easily
as he can swalldkv a stein OF lagar. Mid
d.eweight Dan Creedon could do no bet
ter than make an eight-round draw with
him In Australia. and the worlds light.
weight and featherweight champions, Kid
Lavgine and George Dixon, could do no
better In the two or three twenty-round
bouts each has had with him. II Griffo
were a stiff puncher he could whip any
body anything near his weight He calls
himself THE Feather" but since he has
been sampiing American ale ne has swell
ed up to a point between lightweight and
welterweight He can get 20 12s though.
without trouble. too big for Dixon and
a bit too lttle for Lavigne.
am out OF the business now and think
/ can be an impartial Judge Of the game
which dearly love, so the points I have
given You about the characters In the
pugillstic play are entirely without preju-
dice in any way. Yours truly,
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN.