The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-07

suiIivsne Make Good in Gotham.
Those Sullivan boys, Jack and Dan.
from Montana, have made good in
New York now and are right in the
running for the middleweight title"
says Robert Edgren, sporting editor
and sporting cartoonist OF the New
York World Mr.. Edgren has taken
great fancy to the two O'Neill fighters
who left this vicinity some time ago
after defeating every fighter they came
In contact with. MIR. Edgren knows a
fighter when he sees one and in the
Sullivan boys he sees two clean men
who have taken to the professional
prize ring after having made their way
through a series Of athletic contests
beginning with pole vaulting.
Dan and Jack Sullivan are real
Sullivans and of good Irish stock"
continues Mr.. Edgren in his introduc.
ton to New York of the O'Neill fight
ers, and then he adds:
"Packey Mcfarland told me that
Jack Sullivan, who trained with him
in Los Angeles, was the best middle.
weight in America. He hadn't seen
Dan. It's question, now, which Of
the brothers will go to the top first.
They are both genuine middle-weights.
Jack fought a twenty.round draw with
Stanley Ketchel, and has knocked out
lot of good middle and heavyweights.
His first trial in New York was at the
Olympic Monday night, and he made
Connie Schmidt look like clown in q
circus.
When the Sullivans landed in New
York no eastern middleweight would
make a match with them. 1t was a
case of none so poor to do them rev.
erence.' Who ever heard of the Sulli-
vans? Let them get a rep was the
cry. The real trouble was that the
Sullivan reputation had been passed
around, and the local champions didn't
want to meet middleweights who had
been fighting heavies all over the
country and beating them.
Dan couldn't find q middleweight
opponent, so he fought Reynolds, a
dangerous heavyweight at Browns
last night, and knocked him out in a
round-a one-punch knockout.
udI IlJle is running
around loose like stray dog, and il
the best middleweight in America
isn't entitled to it, who is?"
Edgren gave the two O'Neill boys q
feature place in his sporting page OF
last week. Mr.. Edgren certainly
knows how to pen the face of a put
and he has both Jack and Dan stand
ing with gloved palms up under the
plum tree of the middleweight title
waiting for the lonely plum to droI
into their arms. Other pugs are il
the distance with their hair on end
yelling disapproval
John Pollock in the World tells tn,
following of one of Dams latest feat
in New York:
Montana Dan Sullivan won tn,
easiest kind of a victory over Jacl
Reynolds, the Brooklyn heavyweight
at Browns Gymnasium A. A., putting
him away in the first round OF a ter
round bout with a short right han,
swing to the jaw. This was Dams In
itial appearance in contest in thi
vicinity, and the neat and quick wa
in which he whipped over the slice
punch made him an instant favorit
with the large crowd OF club member
who saw the scrap The blow tina
finished Reynolds was the only goo
one landed, as Reynolds had previous
ly missed several swings for Sullivan
jaw before Dan got over his wallop."
The Philadelphia Public Ledger i
telling of how Dan put the terrif
Billy Berger to the bad in the sixt
round says that the O'Neill fighter ha
not yet struck the siX-round gait an
that he is not taking any chances I
let the middleweight title slip h
grasp.
sullivan is apparently a long di
lance fighter" says the Ledger 81
the first round he jolted Berger's ia
with terrific right, and after thi
round Berger had a wholesome respe
for his opponent"
Before his fight with Berger II
Evening Times gave Dams history
detail as follows:
Dan an oIympian Athlete.
From the amateur realm of OlyI
pic athlete TO the commercial aspe
OF tin-eared pugilist is a conside
able leap; but that is the chasm whiC
Montana Dan Sullivan bridged with
year or more.
Montana Dan, in accordance wi
the almost unvarying custom of f
tiana, is decorated with the name
the silver state because he was bo
in Nebraska. His first appearance
the effete east will be tonight, VIII,
he barters blows with Pittsburg's bes
cat, Billy Berger, of the Deadly entor
age.
Now little of the personal histo
of Montana Dan makes an interestil
peTusal. He has four brothers, and ;