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OHi THAT FUNNY FEELING.
Sensation of the Knockout BY Visit
Ors To Dreamland.

put to many pugilist.
When John l.. Sullivan received the
finishing touch in his battle with Jim
Corbett at New Orleans it was the first
time in all his career that he had ex-
perienced a sensation of the kind.
After he had been dragged to his
chair and when he had recovered his
equilibrium somewhat he said to Jack
McAuliffe, one of his seconds:
What happened, Jack? What hap
pened?"
You're licked" said McAuliffe in
sad voice.
rs that an?" said sully. "why. I
thought I'd fallen off the Brooklyn
bridge"
When Jake kilrain was whipped by
John l.. Sullivan in their memorable
battle at Richburg 1 accompanied Kill
rain to his train.
There were two great big tears in his
eyes, and it was thought that he had
lost his reason.
He had stood up and wanted to go
on with the fight long after his seconds
had thrown up the sponge. Kilrain
had his hand on his heart and this
made his friends think that his ribs
were broken.
Ribs Were All Right.
my ribs are all right" said Jake,
'but my hearts caved in." and the
tears came faster than ever. He was
certain that he would have won the
fight had his seconds let him go on.
They were as certain that had the bat
tie continued Sully would have killed
him.
When Paddy Ryan and John L. Sui
Ivan fought at Mississippi City. Sully,
who was then the strongest man alive,
knocked Ryan out with a fearful punch
in the stomach. A few minutes later,
when Ryan came to, he said to Tom
Kelly, his second:
TT wasn't fair!"
''What wasn't fair?" asked Tom.
For you fellows to let that tele-
graph pole fall on me-
Australian Jimmy Ryan handed Tom
my Williams a dream tablet before
the Kentucky Athletic Club in Louis
vile about a year ago. For the first
three rounds Williams seemed to be
having all the best of it, and he tapped
the cock-eyed cyclone some good jolts.
But in the fourth Ryan smiled wick
eddy, and without any apparent eff
fort he hooked one under the Jaw of
Williams that staggered the London
er. Three more in the same place laid
him low.
But Williams was game to the core,
and as he groggily rose to his feet
Ryan hit him again, and he dropped
to his knees. Once more he reached
his feet and then came the blow that
adjusted the machinery in his chrono-
meter.
The ILLUMINATION stopped.
who put out the lights?" williams
asked excitedly, as he began to feel
his reason returning.
mo one" said Screw Saunders, his
chief second; you were knocked out"
Il guess not" said Tommy, Il had
him going when that fellow put out the
light. Then someone hit me from be-
hind"
Williams said when / was fully re-
covered that he had been knocked out
several times, but this time he was
more, confused than he had ever been.
Said he:
Everything got dark; 1 felt dizzy,
and then 1 shut my eyes and went to
sleep. No, it did not hurt
Jim Hall, the Australian, who came
here with a reputation which he failed
to sustain had a rather peculiar ex-
perience in Louisville when Joe
Choynski gave him the somnolent
swipe.
1t was the opinion of everybody who
saw the fight that the yellow streak in
Hall caused him to deliberately lay
down, but Jim claimed to have been
knocked out, all right.
Joe gave him the finishing touch in
the third, and as he raised himself on
one elbow a minute or two later he
turned to a reporter and said, sleep
lily:
"Oh, I'm tired; femme sleep a little
longer. faint time to git up"
He thought he was back in Memphis
in his own little bed, and that his land
lady was calling him in the morning.
1T did not hurt" he said afterward;
IT just dropped off into dreamland,
and imagined 1 was back home, as 1
began to regain my senses
Like Hitting the Pipe.
Something like hitting the pipe, isn't
it?" suggested Bob Gray, the Louisville
sport and pugilistic promoter.
YES" was the reply and then Jim
went out to a neighboring highball
point and saturated himself with snow
ball straights.
When Steve O'Donnell. Corbetts old
sparring partner, and Peter Maher
came together, the Irish champion gave
Steve an awful "Malleyrowing. Steve
was always great as a trial horse, but
never could fight a bit. And every
time Steve stopped Peters glove with
his jaw he became imbued with the
idea that he was in a railroad collision.
WAS the whole train wrecked?" he
inquired when he woke up at the close
of his last fight with the Irish cham
pion.
Dunkhorst, who received a "1uke"
punch on the jaw from F'itzsimmons,
sleepily opened his eyes and asked:
did the roof fall on me?"
Doubtless Jimmy Handler was the
victim of the queerest hallucination.
He was fighting with Billy Vernon and
the brickmaker had put in some jolts
that had made the Newark boy blind
Handler is noted for his staying pow
ers, and, although dizzy and stagger-
ing, he managed to land rap that put
Vernon fast asleep. Handler was still
groggy when he went to his dressing
room, and, sitting down, began to weep
copiously.
Thought He Had Lost.
whats the matter with your" in
quired one of his helpers.
~ kin lick that Teller"
Certainly you kim" was the reply.
Twill he give me another match?"
asked the fighter.
"Whut's you want to fight him again
when we put him out?"
Didn't he lick me?"
Nav" was the response.
Little Freckles O'Brien, the clever
lightweight of New Orleans, who once
attempted to knock the redoubtable
Terry McGovern out while that shifty
scrapper was off his guard, got the
torrid end of it and hied himself to
the Land of Nod. He said to the
writer several weeks afterward:
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