The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-10-30

will fight from the drop of the flag until
one ur the other goes out Of tine business
The correspondents have begun to get
th..r vrrsions of the Sullivan Palmer
fight printed on this tide OF the water
one ss the best of them says: The little
fellows put up one of the greatest hat
ties If the sear. IL is, indeed. a long
time since there was such a good one
for both boxers went at their work IN
their test style, and they fought fairly
and bIareIy from end To end Of tie bat
tie.
-.Tne ln;l., IHitisher won, and his vic
| tory did not surprise me in the least
| He. il int ~ clever a little chap in the
ring a. W. have had during this century.
aid il was his olevernesS that won tn.
contest for him. That he is Not pun.
| Usher we all know from his fight with
Murphy, but be is too clever for a CON-
parati~ely new man like Sullivan, who
| has mt had TIE experience necessary 10
| face and fool n skillful boxer like Palmer
According to the accounts of tue bat
| tie Palmer had the better OF his man
| almost all through the fight. There were
| TIRES : hen Sullivan made his weil-known
PUSHES and l:d >ontc little damage, but
the fri,isher always managed To get Gut
of the ray of tl.on,, or stop them before
very n.ucl. injury had been done.
This was lust what defeated Sullivan,
| and IL was lust tactics like these that
| won : many ha tiles for a man like Mace
| and others that could be named.
When a man has to fight air most Jf
| the time he soun gets disguised at him
| self and becomes very weary all over,
| whether he he big or little. This has been
| the fact during the entire history Of the
| prize rin. and the CieVerest OF fighters
1 know II. Palmer cvidcn,iy knuws 70, ami
he we1ued Sullivan In this way o'nsid
era,ly This is the best Kind Of fight
| ing or hoSing.
| sullivan wants another try. This Is
natural. for plucky little chap such as
| he is. and in three or four months from
now lie mig hi tie better able to give Palmer
a a.uch better fight than he even did ut
| their Ia - meeting.
sullivan has much to learn about scien
| iinr fighting, and an encounter with
| man ike Palmer is just the thing la inn
prove him We're the American any
| thing near as clever as the Engli>hnian
! inc former would bc d sure winner but
IL is hardly safe Ia expect that Sullivan
| Hul each the standard of Palmer as
.poxer for he il not Of that class of fight
erS.
| The cont est that would be most interest
ing Tow v uuld bc one between SOuy
Smith and Palmer. These two feather.
weights VIII surely meet, for there is
| hardl anybody else for either OF them {"
meet now.
We're they TO meet in the ring there
| would IL some Of the heaviest betting on
| Tn. resu.. that there has been for "A long
time Ola any contest between little men.
THE i Inericans would back smith &" the
extent Of thousands OF dollars, and depend
u,a,n 1t ;he Brtishers would put Up their
| cash for their champion.
The tine was when ii would have been
| safe to 81 that Dixon would defeat Palmer
| IN . finish fight and there are many reasons
for saying this, but there would he danger
| i'm say wing so At present.
Therefore. on the form that Smith has
| shown of late he is the most likely man in
| the country to give Palmer a downfall.
| If he could iio; defeat Palmer II wouId seem
safe To say that Smith would not be corl-
quered in twenty rounds.
However, Sullivan is far fIom being out
| of the game. and it is safe TO say he viii
| not leave England before giving alnler an
ether rur for Il potof r'1ney. Little Sullivan
| is a $ game as Il pebble, and he will not be
downed.
Everything was against him on his
| English trip. l don't mean by that he was
unfairly treated. TO the credit of the Eng
fish spo-tsnen IL should be said that Sui
hvar was treated just us well as If he hap
pened to he fighting on his native soil.
Yet he was FAR from being In the condi-
| ton his friends on this side would like
TO see. He did his work in a climate new
| to him, ard i'm an atmosphere which is
| rarely congeniai to the American athlete.
IF re remains abroad a few months he
viii get used 10 these things, and one
can depend upor it that he will give a
good account of himself. The best or
| Sullivan is that he dies gaEe-like n
| thoroughbred.
Such a game fellow as he is never de-
| feated. a defeat is only a temporary set
ha.E ha unpS tn WORK riuht nrpr