The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-20

| Ivan had ever been knocked down.
! For two rounds Mitchell made a good
! fight, although Sullivans anger was
| growing to a white heat. In the third
round he hit Mitchell fairly and knock
| eded him completely out of the ring into
! the crowd surrounding the ropes. 1t is
probable that no man ever was hit hard
er. Mitchell crawled back to the plat
form and resumed the fight Sullivan
had him completely at his mercy, and
| was about to knock him out of the ring
| again when Police Captain Williams in
terfered and stopped the fight.
Herbert M. Slade, the Maori was
brought to the United States to fight
Sullivan. He was as easily vanquished
as all who had come before.
MEETS THE PRINCE.
In 1887 Sullivan went to England. There
he met the Prince of Wales and was en-
tertained at dinner by a number of Eng
fish lords. He was very popular in Eng
land, and the visit is considered by Sui
Ivan one of the most enjoyable events of
his public career.
Mitchell challenged him for a prize
fight, London ring rules, and they met at
Chantilly, France, on March 10, 1885, The
battle lasted thirty-nine rounds and was
fought in the rain. Mitchell, after his ex-
perience in New York, dreaded another
blow from that powerful fist and spent
the entire time running around the ring
eluding Sullivan.
Sullivan was exhausted after chasing
the Englishman for so many rounds. He
repeatedly knocked him down, but could
not knock him out Mitchell was afraid
to close in with Sullivan, even in the llt-
ter's exhausted condition, and the referee
finally called the fight draw.
After his return to America Sullivan
was very Ill with typhoid fever, largely
due to his Incorporate manenr of living
When he recovered he was matched to
fight Jake Kilrain. The affair took place
in July, 1889, at Richburg, Miss, under
London prize ring rules, and the suns
rays were SO intense that the backs of
both men were actually blistered by the
heat. Kilrain was almost whipped at the
end OF the sixth round. He began to rally
after that and hung on until the seventy
nrth round, when, utterly exhausted by
running so much and by repeated knock
downs, his seconds gave up the fight
In the fall of 1889 Sullivan concluded
that politics was his forte. He announced
that after thinking the matter over he
had decided to put his name up for con-
gresham from Boston. In his address to
the public he said: There isn't a self
respecting American, no matter what
tomfool Ideas he may have about boxing
IN general, who does not feel patriotic
pride at the thought that a native born
American, countryman of his, can lick
any man on the face of the earth AS to
my fitness for the place, can prove that
IN a Few words, A man is elected to con-
gress to look out for the interests of
those who sent him there. That will be
my motto and living up to it will be nv
business" But he didn't go to congress.
Inc people of Boston refused to take
him seriously as politician, and. in spite
OF the fact that he made some speeches
and that his friends made quite a cam
paign, he devoted the next winter to the
stage as usual.
HIS LAST FIGHT.
Sulltvan's last fight was in 1892 He met
Corbett Sept. T. at New Orleans. The
amount of money, $45, 00O was the largest
ever fought for. OF this sum $4,000 was
offered by the club and $20,0 was wager
ed by the principals. Sullivan fought for
few rounds with something of his old
time gameness. Corbett kept steadily
away from him, only closing in now and
then when he had good opportunity to
Jab the champion with the clever punches
for which he was famous. He wore Sulli-
van down until he could resist no longer.
and at the end of the twenty-first round
the ring had new champion
No man in the history of prize fighting
cetved that night, when he staggered nit
fully to the front of the ring and made a
short speech, in which he referred to the
fact that he had fought once too often.
From that time until the present and
even before that, Sullivan passed the
winter months as the star attraction of
some play written to introduce him for
few minutes, or in giving exhibitions In
vaudeville entertainments On the stage
we'll In rin h.
ormous sums of money, of which he has
saved not a penny.
For twelve years 1t is estimated that
MS total income was at least $500 0O0 OF
that amount he threw every cent to the
winds Sullivan has been known to order
as much as $1,000 worth of wine at a bar
In single night. There is little doubt
that In the days of his prosperity he gave
away at least $500 or $50, 900 each year
to his friends. Any intimate of his who
had bad luck could count upon ready
assistance from the big fellow" He
gave his father and mother costly pres
ents, for which they had little use. and.
like the thrifty persons that they were
they sold many of them and realized hard
cash on the gifts.
When Sullivan first started on the
stage he posed as a model in representa-
tions of Greek statuary He was quite
successful, and the first company with
which he appeared on the road plaved
TO crowded houses from New York to
Chicago. Wherever the company went
Sullivan would be followed about the
city by motley crowd, sometimes num-
bering as many as two or three hundred
persons. AT stated intervals he would
stop at some saloon and buy drinks for
everybody.
It was Sulltvan's daily habit fr the DAVIS
of his prosperity to get $40 or $50 worth
of sill yer in the morning and when he
walked out in front Of the hotel or on
the streets where the urchins were gath
cred who sold newspapers or blacked
| shoes, Sullivan would scatter handfuls of
silver in the crowd
MULDOON COULD HANDLE HIM.
William Muldoon was the only person
| who ever seemed capable of putting Sui
Ivan In good condition FOR fight. He
trained him for his battle with Kilratn
and sent him into the ring Weighing ten
pounds more than was generally expected
| Muldoon explained it this way: 81 don't
believe in sending a fighter into the ring
keyed up to the furthest point of his en-
durance. Sullivan, being a big man. can
readily take off ten or twelve pounds in
| the first two or three rounds. If he were
down to finer weight he would begin tn
go backward after the first round of fight
| Ing. BY carrying extra weight he was In
| the best of condition at the end of tho
| fourth round at Richburg''
Muldoon had Sullivan completely at his
mercy when training. He could handle
! the big fellow easily when thew were
wrestling. Sullivan got mad at MuIdoon
! one day and attempted to whip his train
err Muldoon lodged the blow and caught