The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-20
SULLIVAN MADE HIT
WITH BIG AUDIENCE
Jake Kilrain, Proves to Be a New Man Of
Mystery---Booze, Said John L., Re-
sponsible for Jeffries's Defeat by
Johnson, Just as It Helped to
Finish Him

I POT OIL coffee over the torriDio Johns
| shirt front. Then ensued scuffle
the result OF which was that Miller
found his way to the roof and hid
there until Sullivan left town.
sulIivnn's Version Of Fight.
A number OF other stories OF by
gone days We're told during ...is ante
performance talk. On tho stage John
L. told his version Of the Jeffr,es-
Johnson fight Jeffrics never had
look in. according to ,.ie venerable
fighter. 1T wasn't fight It was
farce" no said. "Jeffrles was licked
before he entered the ring. re-
marked two years before the fight
that Jeffries could never come back
ana when | got at the ringside 1 told
the newspaper men, of whom 1 was
one, being out there to write the
story. that if Jeftres weighed 232
pounds in the first round he would
weigh 500 in the second and 400 in
the third
I My predictions came true. The /
black man toyed with him. He nut
MN down three times in the fifteenth. 4
Corbett, over in Jefriess corner had
been urging Johnson to fight and ask
Ing him what he was doing. johnson
replied, You come in the ring after
It's over and I'll do the same to you.
MIR. Corbett.'
DRINK Too Much.
My explanation of the cause OF
Jeffries's defeat is this: For six years
after his retirement from the ring
he kept saloon in San Francisco
Naturally he was drinking, and he
wasn't drinking water This had It's
r. ~, l. a..
getting the mans stomach right. thcy
worked on the outside-just reversed
things Had they made the inside
right, the outside would have taken
care of itself
When 1 speak of the effect of
whiskey ] speak from experience.
stacked up against 1t for twenty five
years, and found that they could
make 1t faster than could drink
1t! About six years ago 1 quit and
let some Of the youngsters take ii.
up where left off
If they can come out of 1t In as
good condition as have they're good
ones. am not a prohibitionist nor
have ] anything against the man who
takes his drink and can handle It, But
the fellow who can't handle II had
better leave 1t alone"
Remarkable Man.
John l. sullivan IS truly remark
ahlc man. He has probably done more
hghtinS than any man alive. and he
mas Fought under the old London prize
ring rules and under the later MARQUIS |
OF Queensbury. He fought when the
winner took all OF the purse: when !
the modern element of conmercialism |
mad not crept into the game. IN other
words. he fought when 1t meant ali !
TO man to win and when the fighter
entered the ring to give the hest he |
had in him. and did 1t.
Some splendid pictures are shown. |
taken al the training camp OF Johnson
ana Jeffries at Reno. and also seyeral |
views during the fight Johnson Is
SHOWN skipping the rope. swinging
heavy men around while they are hold |
ING to his neck. and also suppor,inr
three and four men on his stomach
Any one looking at the pictures viii
quickly come to the conclusion thot "a |
man must set be developed who will |!
take the measure of the big. black man |
Motr-Smith Fight.
a film of the Moir- Smith fight In !
London Is also shown. in which thn
gunner cleanly whips his man. In fact |
IN me opinion OF John L.. Gunner Moir
Is the one white man who has chance |
at Johnson.
Altogether. the Sullivan aci is worth
seeing from any point OF view. the |
oia Fellow tells a good story. and tells
~ wen He holds the attention of bis i
and is seemingly as pop,,lar
as ne WAS twenty nine years ago. af-nr /
Ga "a p'nFlng the heavyweight honors OF |