The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
The San Francisco Sunday Ca


gressive brushed away the coming blow with sweep
of his left stepped forward and shot a laundering
right smash the face. 1t good as the SWING
had been. Ryan took it as he was coming on and y
dropped him in his tracks cleany if his legs
had been yanked from under him. Sullivan stood
grnning for moment then allowed his seconds to
lock arms under him and carry him to his corner
During the rest of the fight both men adopted this
method of saving every possible ounce of strength.
Ryan come up rather wobbly after the interval, but
nerved himself at the scratch and attempted to take
the upper hand again. feinting right and ashing out
with the left for the face. Sullivan condescended to
nod his head back, and, as the blow swept by, he
plugged bone swapping left, following swiftly with
right to the jaw recovering behind thrusting left
and right to the jaw again. The second blow sent
Ryan spinning. The sharply released piston rod OF
high powered cylinder might have had such
kicking qualities Certainly the ring had never seen
hitter of such caliber before
But Paddy" was being battered down to the streak
of gameness that lay behind his nexperience and his
newly acquired respect for this terrible antagonist
He saved himself from falling by wrench and spun
quickly back, only change by Sullivan, who
was fighting like with personal grievance.
Sullivan let right and left drives smackng Ryan
to the chest and chin lightly. Ryan s1ashed out az
him manfully and they mixed for slugging match,
toe to toe give and take. Ryan got the jaw twice,
but he could ward the banging attack that Sull-
flush to the and several taps to the body, then
swept another tremendous right to the side of
the head that sent Ryan tottering fall
Ryan crimson from nose and mouth when taken
to his corner.
The champion was not ready to open the fray for
the fifth round and hung back Sullivan did not keep
him waiting long. He fearsome figure he
charged The chance spectators believed he must
have been desperately injured in some way. ApPar-
emily his wish on earth remove Ryan from
its surface His expression and actions those
of rufian wildly enraged But that simply Sui
s livan's way. He accustomed to frghten his op-
ponents half to death before crushing them Few
fighters could intimdate their men so easily. Not
that it was wholly matter OF deliberate and cunning
device. When Sullivan fought his heart was in it,
and he merely acted the part in character.
Ryan did some skipping and Jumping as the failing
terror drove right and left him. and got away with
a fair show of science, drawing aside and hooking
through good, sounding smash to the head with the
right Sullivan liked that not at all and he flung him
self boldly upon Ryan They clinched as before,
Sullivan keeping Ryan off from close locks by dn Of
hard effort for he had been taught fear the cham
pion wrestler
Hanging about each others necks with their left
hands they had merry, mutual drubbing of it with
their rights, pummeling and ripping the head and
face Again it Sullivan who found this diver
sion too dull and eIbowed into closer hold catching
Ryan clevery about the body Paddy" found him
self helpless in the grip and tried wrggle loose but
Sullivan slid along until he had his man packed neatly
on his hip. Then, with sudden heave, he threw
Ryan perfect cross buttock, hurting him headlong
Sullivan made effort to conceal his satisfaction
this achievement during the interval for he had
played Ryan at what was supposed to be the cham
pions pet department of the game.
RYAN WEARING OUT
Ryan decidedly shaky on his legs when he
up for the sixth round. The pounding had been
terrific, the pace furious and the fall had sapped his
strength. But there doubt of his gameness
He led off from the scratch with handy left drive
that grazed Sulvan's ear. Sullivan was without a
mark upon his body and had suffered nothing except
his wind, which troubling him. He was putting
like a porpoise and grinning like an angry comedy
mask as he returned the compliment, also missing
Ryan, at close quarters, snapped weghty chopping
plunge with his right to the face, and Sullivan re-
turned him of the same kind, only harder
The blow beat Ryan to his knees but the nervv
fellow refused to end the round there he had the
right to do, and got up again, charging with sudden
vigor. Sullivan jammed his blow aside and they
came to clinch, huggng with the left and pounding
with the right, as before Then Ryan, breaking awav
with sharp twist, game back with smashing reaper
that caught Sullivan the point of the chin Sui
van's mouth was open at the instant and the blow
seemed to daze him. He staggered recovered and
passed one hand over his face Ryan leaped to his
advantage just in time to catch kicking right cIin
to the face that tumbled him over on his back
Ryan had been brought to a state of savage temper
by the repeated sethacks, but he greatly weak
ened Sullivans wind plainly causing him his
chief distress and it to attack that while obtain
ing brief respite from the sledge hammers that Ryan
rushed into grips Immediately at the opening of the
seventh round Sullivan fought him off, and RYAN,
rushing again, thrashed heavy right to the chin
Sullivan, taking sharp spurt then after his
hard right and left landing several times to the
face, and at length literally beating Ryan to the
ground.
The champion felt triAe stronger for the eighth
round and went after Sullivan upon his own ground
leading right and left He landed with both but the
blows lacked steam Sullivan came right back at him
hard and they mixed it roughly for half minute in