The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-16
NO MATCH FOR JOHN
Paddy Ryan a Child in the Hands
of Sullivan.
ANECDoTE BY GEORGE SPEARS
McGovern-YounE COrbett and Root
Gardner Goes EngrOss Atten-
tiOn of the Public.


there, and Sullivan, Barnett, his manager,
and a number of other men were in Ryan's
bar. Everyone knows that Sullivan In his
cups was inclined to become quarrelsome,
and he was that night. FINALLY ne
knocked Barnett down.
Barnett was up in a minute. white with
rage. and had his gun out. 'D-n YOU he
cried to Sullivan, L told you you would
hit me once too often. Pull your gun and
we'll settle this right here
" Put up your gun, you fool said Sulli-
van, never turning a hair. Put it up or
, I'll knock your block off, Barnet tstill
kept flourishing his gun in Sullivan's face,
until the latter finally edged close
enough to make a spring and knock the
gun from Barnett's hand, and down went
the latter to the floor again.
Then it was rough and tumble for three
or four minutes. When Sullivan grabbed
the gun he flung it, crash, through the
plate glass door. Paddy Ryan was over
the bar almost before Barnett struck the
floor and grappled with Sullivan, but he
was like baby in the mans hands. Sui
lvan simply seized Ryan, who was over
six feet high and weighed more than 200
pounds, picked him up bodily, and threw
him back behind the bar.
'The thing quieted down after a few
minutes, and the police were not called
upon. That's the advantage of being a
heavyweight champion. Do you suppose
such rough house without getting run
in?"
Sullivan and Goodwin.
This recalls another anecdote of Sulli-
van and Nat Goodwin, the actor. AS the
story runs, Sullivan was in saloon-in an
eastern city, with his usual crowd Of
parasites around him, filling up the entire
bar and making it extremely difficult for
any one else to get any attention from the
house, when in came Nat Goodwin and
one or two friends. Sullivan stood facing
the bar, and Goodwin, not finding any
other place :. to get in, pulled the prize
fighter by the shoulder. 'Get out Of the
way here and let gentleman get a
drink" he said.
Sullivan was busy talking and paid no
attention. One of the crowd earnestly
plucked Goodwin by the sleeve. "For
heavens sake,' said the would-be peace
maker, Don't you know who that is ?
That's John L. Sullivan"
"I don't care who the big stiff is,'' re-
piled Goodwin, 'he can't come around here
and monopolize the bar. Get away from
here and give some one else a chance. y
The door was filled for few minutes
with the crowd fastening to win clear be-
fore Sullivan got started and they got
caught in the undertow. John turned
around slowly and majestically, as beft-
ting one of his rank and standing. "Come
and have drink, Nat" he said.
Thanks, john" replied Goodwin. &c
don't care if I do
McGovern and Corbett.
2. The Corbett- McGovern go Aug. 20 is
engrossing most Of the public attention
just now. The talk among local fight fol-
lowers indicates that the supporters O.
each man are a little afraid of the other
It looks like even money and take YOU
choice.
Neither MIN is clever boxer, and boil
prefer a fast, rough -and-tumble bout, will
plenty of in-tighting. Both stand {
good pummeling, and both can hit hard
McGovern is perhaps little faster ant
Corbett shade more rugged So far there
is not much to choose between them.
- Now to go back to Corbett's decisive vic
tory over McGovern something less thai
a year ago, when he put Terry out in thu
second round. Some hold that 1t was (
chance punch; the majority, that McGov
ern ran into something harder than h
bargained for, and was dazed by hare
swing early in. the fight, causing him t
throw caution to the winds and fight wild
t1y and unscientifcally, Now, will Nc
Govern fight more carefully this time, an
will his greater experience tell against tn
Denver boy, or will Terrible Terry prov
to have gone back? Those. are the tw'
arguments being advanced by adherent
r Of one man or the other just now.
The usual crop OF stories is foatini
In from Connecticut in regard to tn
training Of the fighters. So far Terry
press agent has the best Of it. The othe
E. day he made Terry jump from an eigh
Stgcc-tcot window. dive off a wharf, an
II swim about two hours to recover tn
bodies of young couple, whom he ar
rived just too late to save. It is now hi
TO Mr.. Corbett's man to get busy, but tn
best he has done far is to. allow th
circulation of a story that Corbett wa
refusing to work as hard as his trainer
desired.
The bout ought to pull better in Louis
vile than in New London, as the Ken
tuoky burg has always been good fgh
town, and the reports of state interfer
ence could not have helped injuring tn
attendance at New London, where tn
bulk OF the spectators must have bee
drawn from the outside. ~ .>.
-, Root-Gardner Mill.
The Root-Gardner mill at Salt LAX
City Monday night also should prove mos
Interesting. 1t will proably be Ion
time before another heavyweight battl
ds seen. Jeffries apparently has foun
his injuries in the fight with Fitz NOR
serious than he at first thought, for h
has gone into the mountains to recuper
ate. At any rate his bout with Corbet
will not come off for some time. TIL
prize fight managers know that they ca
only pull off about so many importan
goes a year, and they probably will nc
force the bouts too close together Fail
Ing the real thing, therefore, the bout
between the light-heave weights will er
gross the public attention. ~
There are quite a number Of fighter
who, are quite clever in their class, an
sWho cannot make the middleweight limi
vet are not strong enough to think ser
busly Of going against Jeffries Rot
,Rnd Gardner are two Of the best
these. They both claim that they coul
make the middleweight limit Of II
pounds Monday night, but they are
fight at 165 and it is doubtful If the
could get much lower and be strong. K
s Garter is another man of this class, ar
Jack O'Brien, although he could prol
ably make 1853, is apparently stror
enough to hold his own with this con
pany. Joe Choynski, although Kid Ca
ter defeated him with a punch this sprir
at Chicago, has two or three good figh
left in him yet, and Kid Mccoy wou
score in the same class.
The suggestion has been made, and
seems a good one, that these half doze
tight-heavies get together and fight it o
tor the championship Of this class. Ce
tainly it seems inconsistent when Il
bantam, feather. light, we1ter. and midd
PASSES are only about ten pounds apa
bach, that there shc:ld be no diyidi1