Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-02
SULLIVAN DEFIES
ALL LIGHTWE|GHTS
POSTS MONEY TO BIND MATCH
FOR TITLE
Insists Upon Return Battle With Cans,
Legitimate Holder Of Title,
and Challenges World
at Weights

Mike CTwin") Sullivan has depos-
tied $1,000 with The Herald as a guar
anty to bind a match between him
and Battling Nelson, Joe Cans, Jimmy
Britt or any other aspiring lightweight
| i'm the business.
When seen last night Mike said that
he regarded his defeat by Joe Gaus
as one of those unfortunate affairs
| that are liable to occur at any real
| fight, and that he was not whipped
until Cans slipped over the lucky
| punch.
Mike still believes that he is the
best lightweight in the country ard
is ready to back his conviction with
| real money
After delivering himself Of this opiu-
| ion Mike drew his check and lett it
with the sporting editor of The Herald
and telegraphed to Jimmy Britt Joe
Cans and Battling Nelson, stating his
challenge for a battle to decide The
! lightweight championship of the world.
The little Boston scrapper says that
! he is filled with enthusiasm at the
prospect Of reversing the tables should
| the negro wonder give him a return
match, and will post side bet of
large proportions that the claimant of
the lightweight championship cannot
! again turll the tf1ck.
Since Cans and Sullivan have twice
met and have each won a victory it
seems that the congo is up to Cans
and that he should fight off the rub
| Der to decide definitely who is the
master between them.
Should Cans refuse to battle with
Mike C'Twin'O again, as is believed
he will do, it is UP to Jimmy Britt 10
! meet Sullivan for the decision as to
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with Battling Nelson for the light
weight championship.
| Cans secured a clean decision over
| Sullivan last week when they met in
San Francisco. which was reversal
of the form showed by either at the
| Baltimore fight.
With each holding a victory over tha
| other 1t is up to them to settle the
| question of supremacy. The winner
would be entitled to the lightweight
championship of the world and either,
undoubtedly, would defend the title.
Inasmuch as the featherweight and
| lightweight titles are very much con-
fused and the alleged champions are
| fighting in every class from the BAN
| tom to the welterweigths, a decisive
adjustment of this question will be
welcomed by the sporting fraternity.
Sullivan has been defeated but once,
by Cans, and he has a decision that
smacks of the terrible in Baltimore
which gives him the right to demand
a return match with Cans for the set
tlement of the question as to which is
| the better man.
Whosoever should win on this third
meeting would be entitled to demand
that Battling Nelson meet him for the
adjudication Of the lightweight title.
Championship in Doubt
Today there is no real lightweight
champion unless Cans holds the honor.
If Cans is the lightweight champion
! Nelson is nonenity and must meet
Frankie Neil for the bantamweight
| honors or some of the aspirants for
the featherweight decision.
To clear up this unsettled condition
of affairs Nelson, Cans and Mike Twin
must fight it out and the winner will
have undisputed right TO the light
weight championship.
A third meeting between Sullivan
and Cans would settle the discussion
as to them. Nelson would be forced
TO meet the winner to settle the rea.
championship honors.
Jimmy Britt never was lightweight
champion, hence his defeat by Nelson
did not give the latter the lightweight
honcrs. Britt defeated Young Corbett
for Il doubtful championship and was
in turn defeated by Cans.
Cans has all that Britt ever possessed
| in the fighting honors and Nelson
really gained nothing by his defeat of
Britt.
Upon the answers received by Mike
Twin as relating to his challenges de-
pend the adjudication of the light
weight honors.
Britt may accept the challenge. Cans
may do likewise, but Nelson will never
consent to fight Sullivan until the bat
tie is forced upon him.
Should Britt accept the challenge
and meet Mike. the issue will be for
the privilege of demanding a battle
of qualification for the championship
scrap with Nelson
In the meantime Cans has another
demand upon the winner and that is
that he who seeks to be lightweight
champion must first defeat Cans.
Nelson and the winner of the prob
able Sullivan Britt battle must fight it
out for the championship so with Cans,
as the negro is the technical and le-
gitimate lightweight champion
Sullivan is very much in earnest and
wants above all else return match
with Cans. Should he be able to wipe
out the defeat he suffered at the hands
of Cans, Mike viii be in a position to
demand a fght-off with Nelson for the
title.
With honors practically even between
Sullivan and Cans, the negro can i'll
afford to decline third meeting and
Mike Twin hopes to get the privilege
of demonstra ting that he is the legiti-
mate lightweight champion of the
world
In his challenge Sullivan offers Ia
make 1873 pounds at o'clock on the
day ofethe fight and bars none of the
aspiring or ambitious lightweights, in
cuding the claimants of the title.
If Mike Twin secures o favorable
reply to his sweepstake challenge, he
hopes to have the battle pulled off in
Los Angeles and 1t is possible that the
qualifying rounds for the title will be
fought here.
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