The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-21
CHAPTER XIII

\ glYlng him a finer licking than he
 ever had handed out to one of his
 opponents. It had made him totally
 unfit to meet Charley Mitchell, and
 it was pushing him with still more
 deadly vigor.
 Sullivan had the bad judgment just at this time to get himself patched up
 with Prof" John Laflin of New York, a fine young boxer, but a man without a great deal of gameness. Had the last attribute been among the virtues of Laflin he would have become cham. pion of America the night of Nov. 10, 1884.
 In the first round of their bout in Madison Square Garden Sullivan flung himself around to such an extent and used up his energy so much by beating the air with his hands that he was almost out from exhaustion when the second round began He rushed his opponent, however, and soon was on the ropes, his arms hanging Imply at his sides, while Lafiin stood and pound-- 1 ed at the Sullivan jaws. Sullivan was clever enough to duck every time one of the punches started and they landed for the most part, on his skull, where they did no damage.
 Laflin was terribly rattled. but his seconds were worse. They were par alyZed with anticipation and shouted madly at Laflin to work on Sulliyan's middle. He could not hear the clamor of voices, and soon his opportunity had passed. If he had been able t6o hear and had calmed down enough to realize his own mistake, he would have become, that night, the champion of America, with the assistance of John Barleycorn- As 1t was Sullivan was given the decision after the sched. uled four rounds of milling. for hei had landed the greater number of ef- fectiye blows.
 Richard Fox was still kuntiHg for some one who would be able to re. move the crown of championship from the brow of the husky new champion, and he hit this time on AIT Greens field, another EngIishman- Advance notices hailed him as tHe peer off Charley Mitchell and Jem Mace Hei was considerably smaller than Shllii van, but was a very shifty boxer His blows, however, as is the case with most fast boxers, were light and fnef- fectual. Sullivan agreed to meet him., and the date for the bout was set as Nov. IS, 1884, only short time after Sullivan's disappointing meeting with Laflin. The bout was scheduled for four rounds and was to be in Madison Square Garden. It really was a bad match for Sullivan, for he was out of condition He refused, however, to take counsel, and did his best to get in some kind of condition.
 CHAPTER XIV
 A huge crowd was on hand when Il Greenfield and Sullivan entered the building for their fight, for Greenfield
 had received practically the same en-
 liyan's meeting with Tug Wilson and Charley Mitchell. Sullivan, as usual, was not fit while Greenfield had train
 ed to the minute.
 Greenfield was much smaller than Sullivan, with a loose sort of motion with his blows that typified him more 5 as a small boxer than as a man box ing the heavyweight champion of America. He looked fit to put almost anyone down before the fight started and he might have had some success against Sullivan had the bout been 3 finished
 Greenfield was one of the first ex ponents of the hit-and-getaway sys tenn of fighting that, in the present : day, has made such wonderful boxer 3 of Mike Gibbons, Packey Mcfarland
 Freddy Welsh, and others of the type When the fight was on he rushed in } side Sullivans guard, tapped hin lightly, danced out of harms way, ant repeated the stunt often. He wasn' } a bit afraid of his larger opponent, ; fact largely in his favor, for one O ' Sulliyan's greatest adjuncts to his ! fighting was his foreclosures, b. } which many of his opponents wer ' cowed before they really got started. Greenfield had no trouble at all il