The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-23

The BOXING RECORD
or DICK SULLIVAN

van went to the Coast and le-entered
the four-round game. He obtained
decisions over such clever boxers as
Frank Mayield, George Murray, and
Walter Stanton, and lost decision
to George Brown.
Sullivan next went up to the north
of the state and in July of 1907 knock
ed out Mike Mcclure in Sisson, Cal,
i'm six rounds. His next fight was
i'm the following month with George
Carter, whom he knocked out in less
than two rounds. On Oct. Is he knock
ed out E. Chambers, the Philadelphia
middleweght, in four rounds, in Los
Angeles
Oct 25 saw Sullivan fight Kyle Whit
ney in Marysville. He knocked the
colorcd wonder out in twelve rounds
Eearly in 1908 Sullivan boxed Young
Peter Jackson in Marysville, the ref
cree stopping the bout in the seven
teenth round on the ground that nei-
ther man was trying his best.
Sullivan took Jackson on at catch
weights and the colored man weighed
in the neighborhood of $50 pounds.
Jackson didn't get a cent for this go
but Sullivan Jared better, having had
the foresight to demand his money
before he entered the ring. Jackson S
b end of the purse was donated to char
ity.
The match came about in this way:
Sullivan was to have boxed Billy
Burke but the latter was unable to
go on owing to sickness. An effort
was made to have Joe Thomas take
his place but the latter had Just been
beaten by Jack (Twin) Sullivan and
refused the offer. Young Peter Jack
son, who had been training for a go
with Nick Burley, which fell through,
owing to the latter's arrest on seri-
GUS charge, was secured as substitute
for Burke. Jackson agreed to make
weight for Sullivan but no forfeit was
demanded by the club and the colored
man refused to weigh in and fought
with a big pull in the weights over
Sullivan.
May 80, 1908, Sullivan again boxed
Kyle Whitney what was to bave been
a twenty-five round contest, at VAL
lejo. The police stopped the contest
in the twenty second round and Whit
ney was credited with a Knockout
The battle took place in the open air
and Sullivan's share of the purse
amounted to 5000. When he beat
Whitney his end was $1,000, the big
gest winning he has made since start
ing boxing.
After Sullivan knocked out Whitney
there was some talk of matching him
with Stanley Ketchell. Ketchel had
made his first appearance in Califor-
mia in Marysville fighting twenty
round draw with Joe Thomas Ketchell
wanted all the money, however, so
the Phoenix Athletic Club refused to
bother with the match
Beside boxing, Sullivan is pedes-
trian of no mean order and holds sew
eral local walking records He is
also an expert oarsman and one of the
most valuable members of the Healanl
Yacht & Boat Club.
81 am out of the game for good"
said Sullivan, the other day. 81 was
never particularly in love with it but
followed it because it gave me a chance
to see places and things and because
/ found that I could make more mo-
ney in less time than at any other
business for which ] was suited There
is one thing in particular which makes
me glad that 1 became identified with
the fighting game, and that is that
had it not been for boxing | would
probably never have come to Homo
lulu which l consider to be the finest
place that I was ever in"