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FROM TOW BOY TO WORLD’S (
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\it A History of the Life of John L. Sullivan f
f (Hy H. C. Hamilton, United Press Staff Correspondent) 8
I f (Copyright, 1918, by United Press) S
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CHAPTER XV
Before going to Ohio to meet Mc
Caffery, Sullivan took on Greenfield
again in a four-round go and won the
1 decision. He also picked up a few
| dollars by boxing some unknowns and
went to Chicago to meet Jacke Burke,
I whom he defeated.
The offer to box in Cincinnati came!
after Paddy Ryan, Sullivan's victim
I in the championship bout, refused to
I again meet his conqueror. Ryan ati
first was willing, but threw' up the
job after having given it some con
sideration, and McCaffery was picked
to take his place. The bout wras one
of the most memorable in Sullivan’s
entire fighting career, but it is given
only slight mention by most tales of
Sullivan.
John L. almost lost his champion-1
ship that day in Ohio. As a matter
of fact, there are many devotees of i
boxing who remember the bout who
claim now that McCaffery really beat
Sullivan and was entitled to the de
cision. Anyway, it required severalj
days for the referee to give his de
cision, and when he did he gave It to
Sullivan, much to the disgust of Mc
Caffery and his manager, who had
followed the referee from Cincinnati:
to his home in Toledo.
The pair met finally after consider
able dickering, on Augu. 29, 1885, the
ring being pitched in Chester Park, a
suburb of Cincinnati. McCaffery
weighed only 170 pounds and' was con- j
siderably smaller than Sullivan, but!
he was in much better condition.
McCaffery, as well as Sullivan, had
some luck that day, for he was floored
by Sullivan in the third round By a
smash to the side of the head and
went down. Had he been required to
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begin fighting at once, an eye-witness
of the bout declares, he would have j ■
been finished then. But the time-keep-!
er lost his head, called "time,” and the
round was finished. That was what
turned the scales toward McCaffery,
for Sullivan's lack of condition told
against him, and he slowed up appre
ciably.
The remainder of the bout found
Sullivan arm-weary, while McCaf
fery, being in fine condition, rushed
Sullivan repeatedly. He was really a
clever boxer and had no trouble In
hitting the champion. At the end of
the sixth round, the length the bout
was supposed to be, Sullivan was bad
ly winded and in no condition to fight
further. The championship was in.
the grasp of McCaffery if the bnut
could be continued to a finish, and the
proposition was made to Sullivan by
McCaffery’s manager. The champion,
of course, refused, and McCaffery and
his manager set up a howl. They de
manded that the decision be made a
draw, but the referee refused. He did,
however, reverse his decision and left
the ring.
McCaffery and his manager fol
lowed the referee from the ring and
even pursued him to Toledo, where he
lived, beseeching him to give a de
cision, but, after several days, ^when
the decision was given, it was award
ed to Sullivan.
CHAPTER XVI
\ Sullivan continued for some time
I after this to tour the country, taking j
[ on man after man and winning, butj
I the importance of these goes was
I small, and he really never had another
J bout of consequence until he met
| Charley Mitchell in Chantilly. France,
j for the championship, a bout which,
II perhaps, was the hardest the Boston
| Strong Boy ever engaged in, despite
1 records of the seventy-five round slug
| fest with Jake Kilrain. He met Pad
I dy Ryan in San Francisco and de
• feated him in three rounds, but Ryan
‘ was only a memory of his former self
and little credit was attached to the
victory for Sullivan.
Then Sullivan went to England for
some exhibitions, and, as he put it
afterward, some sport. He had the
sport and he engaged in several ex
hibitions, one of them before the
Prince of Wales, who afterward be
came King Edward VII of England.
It is related that Sullivan and the
Prince became fast friends, but wheth.
er this is true cannot be stated with
any basis of fact, for Sullivan never
talked about it. Indeed, when he spoke
of the prince at all, it usually \^as to
tell a funny story about how the
prince had once sent him a cane after
seeing him in an exhibition. .
The cane really was a pretty affair,
gold-headed, and made of the finest
wood. A servant of the prince deliv
ered the stick, and when Sullivan un
wrapped the parcel and looked at the
shining present, he was fond of tell
ing that he handed it back to the serv
ant, growled a couple of times, and
then shouted:
"Take that thing back and ask the
prince if he thinks I'm a cripple.'’
Sullivan always ended the story by
saying he never received any more
presents from the Prince of Wales.
The ofd feud with (Tiarley Mitchell
developed while Sullivan was m Eng
land and the exchange became so bit
ter and personal that a match between
them was arranged at the behest of
some English and French sporting
men. Baron Rothschild was one of
the latter, and offered hi* estate raear
Chantilly, France, for the: battle. •
Sullivan had been living high in
England. He wiw meeting: only the
poorest of boxers, although lie offered)
to meet the champion of England or
any other man the promoters wanted.
He was drinking champagne and alb'
by the ;iarrel, figuratively speaking,
ind was taking on' liMs of fat. How
aver, He readily consented Co the
match with* Mitchell! fin fact, heraever
was know-v to turn down a match
with a worthy opponent, with tlie ex
•eption of the time when he drew a
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irae of color against IVier Jackson; =
It was Sirtlivan’s first long fight, {
ind was to he fought trader Eondhn i
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Prfite Ring rates. That is, the rounds !
were to last' until one man or the I
*thsr was thrown or knocked to the
ground. No gloves were to be used! !
The men wersettrfight with'bare fists. ;
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