Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-27

sorry to be obliged to fight man as |
am that circumstances render it neces-
sary for me to meet Terry in the ring.
No one will believe | am afraid of him,
or why should | have Travelled 5000
miles to fight him? 1t is not that at
all. But McGovern treated me so
royalty when | landed in this country,
meeting me at the pier with brass
band, and following that up with
grand banquet in my honor the same
evening, that | feel toward him as l
would to a brother and not at all as
one is supposed to regard an opponent.
However, he has challenged me Tor the
title of championship bantamwelght OF
the world, which title | now hold, ana
consequently l am in honor bound 10
fight him. Whether | win or lose III
the coming encounter, should McGov-
ern ever go to England, l can promise
him that | will do everything IN my
mower to make his stay agreeable ana
show him that we Britishers are not a
whit behind you Americans in the art
of entertaining visiting athletes.
OF course, my readers, most of them
Americans, think that McGovern VIII
defeat me, and probably hope so, 100.
Nor would | have it otherwise, FOR
have no use for a fellow who doesn't
stick up for his own countryman in an
international affair of this kind; but
all the same think you will be doomed
to disappointment at the outcome Oh
our meeting. From what l know OF
McGovern, he is a fighter who rushes
in on his man and is all the time boring
in on him after the style of Dave Sulli-
van, whom | met and defeated in Lon
do nbefore the National Sporting Club.
Now, anybody who has seen me in
many Of my fights will corroborate me
when | say that a rushes is just the
style of fighter | like TO so up against,
for in that case | don't have to chase
him around the ring, but rather allow
him to wear himself out in trying to
get in on me to land a blow.
| have never yet met man who
could get near me, and | think | can
say without any Boosting that Terry
will have 10 be much cleverer and
stronger than | think him before he
can outpoint me or beat down my
guard. Billy Plimmer. after meeting
and defeating the best men Of his
weight on this side OF the pond, went
over to England last winter for the ex-
press purpose OF avenging the defeat
administered to him in November. 1895,
when / knocked him out in IA ROUNDS.
But he was again doomed to disap-
pointment. for, as everybody knows, in
stead OF his capturing my scalp, /
knocked him out in II rounds.
or course | can't give you any idea
of the tactics | shall employ when /
meet McGoyern in the ring OF the
Westchester A. c. next month, be-
cause | don't ever know how | shall
fight a battle until / face my opponent
in the ring and have an opportunity 70
study his methods and gauge his abiI-
ity. If McGovern adopts the tactics
that he has employed in all his farmer
battleS-that is. PUSHES in on me and
tries to break down my guard or al
lows me to get in some blows in the
hope OF landing one that will knock
me out think | can promise him
that he will find himself up against a
more difficult proposition than he has
vet solved, and he may find that / can
nit hard enough &c knock him out,
strong as ne is and clever dodger as he
is reputed to be-
I am being trained by Sam Black
lock. who came over from England
with me for that purposes Blackjack
Is regarded as one Of the 4est trainers
on the other side. and Is ven acquaint-
ed with Americas me1h0dJ OF fighting
He trained John e. Sullivan when that
grand old wa1for fczghf Char2HT