The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-25
STRENUOUS DO|NGS
AFTER A RING FIGHT
John L. Sullivan Tells of TrOy's
Rage When He Beat
Ryan.
A BAND OF BAD MEN
OFFER $2500 FOR A FIGHT
Fighting Is Getting as Bad as
Insurance for Ugly and
Mean Graft.
By John L. Sullivan.

The time / put Paddy Ryan out in four
rounds, there were great doings In Troy.
, n, Y, where Paddy lived. A newepa-
per man in Troy tried to fIl the demand
for news from the battle by taking bull
letins. He fed faxed returns for four
1een rounds. winding UP by having Paddy
pat me out with ciout that sent me
through the ropes and into the next
county
The name OF that newspaper man is
William Crozier, now holding down a
graft as one of the main squeezes In the
water department in Brooklyn n, Y.
The kind OF news he put out was just
what the Troy crowd wanted TO hear, for
all the sports In that town had gambled
their last cent on Paddy. After they
learned that Paddy had knocked me
out. there was hardly enough wet goods
In town 10 celebrate on. and the whole
bunch let er go the limit that night
Crozier got up early the next morning
10 see how near he had guessed on the
fight. When he saw that Paddy had been
easy money for me- he kept moving until
he etrIck New York and he hasn't been
In Troy since He was wise man 10
Gus would have happened to him at the
hands OF the men who had bet the shirts
off their backs on Paddy.
II that crowd In Troy was sore, the
crowd In Boston felt just the other way.
They came near setting the frogpond in
the common ablaze, A prominent min
lister admitted that he prayed for my
success so long as the fight was bound
TO come off. Every man, woman and
child In Boston rooted for me, and when
| made good. the town was wide open
for days.
My return to Boston was g long-drawn-
cut whoop. | don't remember much of
what happened after Lew Brown, the
, ball player and some others jammed me
into hack to make the rounds. Boston
certainly hit the pace that kills in cele
brating that win, and help was sent from
I'll over New England to give the thing a
finish 1t nearly finished me.
A Promise to the Wise Guys.
Some OF the wise guys are sliding tho
$500 to any man OF my weight whom
can't stop in four rounds. Where does
the laugh come In? The answer is that
il don't come in any more than 1t came
in on any other offer i ever made. I'm
no Josher, and when talk fight, 1t means
the straight thing and the square deal
have in a dozen years, and while l don't
say that 1 can store away any man liv-
ing. ] do say and with enough money to
make the talk good that there Isn't any
4. man alive of my weight who can whip
me in ten rounds, AS am now making
farewell tour OF the world, some OF the
hcavies ought to spruce up and take down
the coin, If they. can. There are enough
OF them needing the money to have some
thing doing before long.
Here's promise that I'll make good;
If this offer of mine Is taken up I'll pro-
duce more lighting to the square inch
for four rounds or less, than has been
There viii be real money In 1t. and real
scrapping, with all the dinky bluffs,
frame-ups and taking left out
II there's any straighter or fairer way
uf putting II to the public. | don't know
IT, The public has always had confidence
in nc and I'm not going to hand them a
lemon at this stage of the game. Here
stand. ready to back up oil l say With
every piece of money and every Wallop
] own. Who's the first man to come
forward and get reputation and his
block dented?
S25OO Offer From Band Of Bad Men
When I made a tour through the coun.
try as champion. about all the bad
names stand for tough doings In various
paTts OF tho West, tried hard TO see my
show. They took long chances of getting
: iynched or shot upon sight by coming into
the towns, but many of them came. Some
OF them sneaked In In some sort of dis
guise, but others came in anyway. They
that the marshals let on that they didn't
see them, In order to avoid starting a
slaughter In the crowd,
In Leedyllie, i got n letter from an out
law who was In hiding. Offering me 81. 90
In gold dust II / would take my company
TO certain place in tho hills and give an
exhibition to himself and small party
OF friends We were promised fair treat
ment going and coming, but as there was
q chance that 1t would be too much OF q
temptation to stick up on the WAY
back. collecting not only the $500 but
whatever else We had with u.s. We 20,
cold feet on tho proposition, and made be
hevc ws never got the invitation
AT one exhibition. word was passed tc
us that there were three famous bad mer
III the audience, and II any shooting start
ed, tho play was for all OF US to aop fla
and stay down till we counted a thous
aud IL 10 safe TO say that every man II
tho audience looked at US boxers goin,