Show HOW SULLIVAN POUND fOUND THE Minnesota Logger Lodger Proved an Adept at Art of B BucKing BucK BucK- cl in ing a Blow Puzzles the Pride of Boston When John L. L Sullivan was making his famous trip through the country giving 1000 to any man who would stand before him for four rounds he found many a ahard ahard ahard hard nut to crack That was In 1882 TV when hen the big fellow was In tip top tiptop top shape There were nine persons In the party party- Sullivan Peter McCoy Steve Taylor Mike Gillespie Herbert Slade Mike l Donovan all boxers Al Smith Jake the treasurer of the troupe and Frank Moran Moran Mo Mo- ran Sullivans Sullivan's manager who says of the trip Smith went ahead of the show smoothIng smoothIng smoothing smooth- smooth Ing the Vy vay while I stayed behind and stuck to the big fellows and kept things going smoothly It was an eight months' months trip and we had outside of ot our expenses which were It was purely a boxing troupe and Steve Taylor was Sullivans Sullivan's sparring partner Sullivan was so good then that we went all over this country offering 1000 In cash to any man roan who would stay before him for four rounds Many men tried to cop that money but none succeeded During that tour Sullivan knocked out men Some of them were luck lucky citizens too for Richard Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard K Fox was sore on Sullivan and left no stone unturned to find a man who could whip him That he didn't succeed only proves that Sullivan was the greatest great great- est fighter thi country or any other ever eer produced In Minnesota a big logger who said he lie knew something about the game himself himself him him- self announced that he was going to get that thousand dollars and he came near making good his promise He was bigger than John L. L and he knew one thing about boxing how to duck John sent Several everal swings at the fellow tellow that would have knocked his head off ort but the logger Jogger was not there when the blows arrived Three rounds he succeeded in eluding the big fellow Then John whispered Ill Til get him this time I have figured out Just where his head will wUl be when he ducks Like the good marksman I shall not aim at his head but where It will be when he ducks And Sullivan did as he said he would Before the fourth round had gone a minute minute min mm- ute John L. L made another of ot those swings and tined timed It so accurately that when the big logger ducked Sullivans Sullivan's fist caught him square on the Jaw and out he went The logger failed tailed because he knew only one way to duck and because Sullivan discovered the trick |