Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
JohnL. Sullivan Tells One OfHis
 Interesting Stories.


 None of the Present Day Fighters
 Could Worry Him, if He Was Back
 in His Prime-Gus Ruhlin May Go
 Abroad-McGovern and Dave Sulli-
 van Will Fight-McFadden and
 Erne After McGovern.
 It is seldom that John l.. Sullivan will consent to talk about heavyweight pugilists, but on Saturday night he gave his views to a number of friends, who called upon the former champion at his place in Forty-second street. Johns opinions were drawn from him by a question as to whether Fitzsim- mons could whip Jeffries in another fight. Sullivan tackled the subject in this manner:
 There's no fighter in the world to date who can hit Jeffries in the body and that means that there's nobody who can lick him. JeffrieS has q sur prisingly short body for man of his height. Though he is over feet tall. I'll bet that if he sits down in chair a man feet 1O1a inches tall, sitting next to him. will be taller. Jeffries has long legs and long arms and with that crouching position ne employs while in the ring. it is impossible to get to his stomach and ribs. All the punching in the world levelled at the champions head goes for. nothing. Fitzsimmons showed that. Jeffries can beat any man in the world who will go to him. If I, had been behind IS al, J,n oh pionship at Coney Island, I would have instructed him to stay away and let Jeff do the rushing. as he would certainly have been compelled to do. From what I have h"e~.1 ei"oo then I am inclined to believe that Fitz was Overconffdent and not in his best con dition physically. but that dope story don't go with me. Bob has told me the dope yarn several times. but I've always advised him to cut it out For his weight he is the greatest fight CT in the world. In his fight with lief fries Bob was forty pounds lighter. 15 years older and was not so strong phy- Sically, but he was just as heavy q hitter. even though he did( put up q poor fight.
 "The only way to beat Jeffries is to go in and bull him. Fitz couldn't do this because he didn't have the weight. But Sharkey came as near doing the trick as anybody will in some time to come. Tom ORourke knew how to go after Jeffries and he sent Sharkey out with instructions to keep on top of the big fellow at all times. That was the best fight Sharkey ever put lp. but the punching he got in the body was so severe that he didn't get over ii for q long time. Against Ruhlin and FitZ. Sharkey's awkward ness and lead feet helped along his defeat. If he and Maher come togeth- CT it will be a mill worth looking at that is, if you care for heavy blows in preference to love taps. I'll say of Corbett that he's the finest boxer I've ever seen. but that lets him out. He can't hit at all. In his fight with lief fries he ran 300 miles around the edge of the ring. and when he got tired Jeff jolted him on the chin and it was all over. Corbett hit Iaffries enough times to make some impression, but the big fellow merely waited until he got chance to pile ill wallop that would do the trick.
 If Corbett had met me when I was right - that is to say when I got through beating Jake Kilrain for in stance-ld have made short work of him. In fact. there isn't one of these heavyweights of today who would have had q chance with me in a bare knuclile fight or even a glove contest Corbett can't beat Mccoy now on the level and I'll bet on it. I know that fight was fixed. Mccoy. is better fighter than Corbett, because the Kid can hit. I'll admit that he hasn't licked many first class men, but he can beat Corbett all right"