The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25


bert siade. Slade is now a miner working
in the Tintic district but has not been in
the city yet to see the man who made him
famous. John L. was asked about the
famous battle yesterday and gave this'
account Of il;
BY JOHN L. SULLIVAN.
There was a great blowing Of Herbc-t
Slades bazOO when the Maori was i'm
ported to give me the lullaby A gent in
New York who was scraping the earthF
with a fine-tOoth comb to get man I
lick me was the cause of taking Slade
from his happy home in Australia and IA
met in Madison Square Garden, New
York. in August. 1883
This Is the time the wind comes OutI
or your sails. and you'll 60 back TO BOstouI
IN an ice box was one of the messages
handed 70 me by the gent referred to-
] nat was befo-e taking Slade on.
There was a crowd there to make yOurl
head swim Slade looked fit for his part
with feet rs inches carrying 23b pOunasI
of beef. He could handle himself well
knew how to box and entered the riugI
cock-sure Of doing me UP. He looked as'
good as any man / ever faced. and theI
crowd was ready TO see assault and bat-l
terry, rough house. explosions and so forth /
In the first round. after sparring a fewI
seconds. I felt for him with a smash fun
in the face. following it up with anothe /!
in the neck. then I floored him with an
other When he got up we met like Il
couple Of bulls. and ] handed him a puncla
that smashed him through the ropes and
crowd In the second round I wallOpedl
him ell over the ring. The third roHH9I
was short and Slade was down and ont
Captain Williams. with his famous sida-
Whs1eTs. led the police into the ring II
stop the fight but there wasn't any fighI
TO stop, the importation being busy dream
ing of home 1 afterward took Slade in.
my party on tour of the country. Fl /
STAYED with as till We struck Utah, ant
he's here now. ! understand.
Why He Broke Jack Hogan's Nose
Jack Hogan of Providence was one of.
me down in a bout. ] ran into his fist
but ! didn't explain just why Jack gots
the chance to get me off my guard.
was very early in my career. when I hat
exhibit my punch, and il WASH easy %
butt into the game. Hearing that Their
were boxing matches pulled off every
week IN the Theatre COmiQue i'm PrOVi T
dence, 7 got Billy MahOny TO give me
letter of introduction 10 Denis OReilivI
man of prominence in that city. Mr.
OReillv was good a sport and as fin
a gentleman as his namesake, Boyd
O'Reilly Of Boston.
I found Mr.. OReilly in a big dry good
store in Providence. where he was man
ager. Pushing my letter 10 him / sske,
him to help me get an engagement THAI
evening he took me TO the manager of TN
theatre and ! was put on through Mr.
O'ReiIly's influence. That was a rea
start for me. and / owe a great deal q
O'Reilly. for he was a friend when
needed one. He had a better idea of Wha
I could do than any of the others. an
although Hogan was the champion OF
PrOvi ienCe and the best man they la-
down there. O'Reilly asked me to go eas4
with him. Everybody else thought / va
a cinch for Hogan.
When I ran into HOgan's fist and wa
knocked ~ Do
O'Reilly and smashed Jack on the8n0so
sending him into the wings of the Stage
O'Reilly came over TO me and emindetit
me that 1 had promised to be easy, and
after that we finished the bout i'm a liehyH
way. We looked at HoEan's nose after
the bout and found il was broken. I field
sorry that / had been 50 strenuous, q
Jack was a good fellow. and me an
O'Reilly took him in a hack to DR.. Card
ner's office, where the bum beak was Sc
and put in plaster cast.