The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-03
REVIVAL Of
EK-CHAMP
HAS ASKED FOR A CONCESSION
AT A.-Y.-P. EXPOSITION, AND
WILL GATHER THE NOTED
HAS-BEENS AROUND HIM.
Special to the World.

Special to the World.
Seattle, Feb. 3.-Having dipped
generously into about everything
else, John L. Sullivan is about to
launch himself into occultism.
The one-time champion Of all the
champs is planning a resurrection
or a naturalization, or some other
psychic stunt, and as a result of it,
declares he, the pugilistic ghosts of
other days will be coniured to do
their turn for little time, as they
did it in the days of the greensward
and the skin tight gloves.
1t has been something like a CEN
fury and half now since the Boston
boy laid Paddy Ryan low on the
banks of the Missippi. To be accu-
rate, it was in 1883 that the one
good Irishman was laid away by a
better one, and the question of the
championship brought down out of
the air.
1t was a whole lot later than that,
but almost as long ago, so far as
memory serves, that Jake Kilrain was
planted on the same well-greased
toboggan, and between that time and
this there has been many another
good man sent on his way to the
place where all good mitt men go, via
the same route.
1t is these ghostly shadows of the
past that Sullivan would bring back
into the theatre of events, that pres
ent generations may see what man
ner of man it was fought when moth
| ing save pistols was barred, and the
anvil was considered legitimate
weapon of offense.
It is in Seattle that Sullivan plans
| this wholesale identification of the
dead ones. He has arranged with
the directorate of the AlaskaY ukon-
Pacific exposition for concession on
the PAY Streak" and there he will
set up a ring of the old days-not a
ring with a velvet carpet on the floor
and a lot of sofa pillows stuck
around, but real turf ring, with a
rock or two here and there to make
it feel homelike-and with the four
posts jerked from a farmers fence,
with the nails left in them. There
will be none of your coy corners,
says John L., for either principals or
seconds.
And through the ropes will go
those pugs of the other day and some
of later day, who still were fighters,
for Kid Lavigne will be among those
present, and there is none to say
that he was not a grand little man,
who took the gait and liked it when
it came his way.
Charley Mitchell, traditional rival
of the Boston lad, is in with Sulli-
van On the deal, and stranger things
could happen than that they should
get together in the late autumn of
their careers to settle that long moot
question; they came near to a mill
only couple of years ago.
Sullivan has also pulled Jake Kill
rain out of the never, never land, and
Peter Maher, champion of Ireland, ii
is announced will repeat that cele.
brated Mexican experience of his
Joe Choyinski, one of the greatest OF
the old ones, who still lays claim to
punch will be another, and there
is many man today in fistiana who
remembers the time Choyinski and
Jim Corbett went up San Francisco
Bay on barge to have it out.
II forgot my gloves" said Joe
when the barge came to an anchor.
Take these" said Corbett, land
cut the fingers off them,'' and he
pulled from his pocket pair of driv.
ing gloves with beautifully sewed
silk welts down the backs of them
An hour later those same welts ha6
made the bank clerks face look like
an unimproved Hamburger steak. L
was only the foolish or uninformed
who, after that, said Corbett had the
streak in him.
That Corbett will be one of them
may not be said, for, bless you man
he is now talking of tearing Jacl
Johnson's head Off and throwing i
in his face, and it is not seemly tina
ghosts should talk like that.
But if Corbett isn't, the rest of tn,
old guard will be, an even score o
them. and it will be such a show a.
will touch the hearts of the RICH
ones, and be lesson to these toda.