Show SPORTS AND PASTIMES The Late SullivanGreenfield Spar FROM THE RING TO THE COURT FugiliRmTlie Match Police versus Finally Occurs but Ends in Two Bounds That portion of the community who are interested in the doings of the pugilistic pug-ilistic fraternityand who derive especial pleasu e from the public displays in figures which the mighty John L Sullivan ures in the squared circle were thrown the publi into a state of excitement by cation in the evening papers of November Novem-ber 14th oi the appended communication from the Mayor to the Board of Police commissioners 1 I observe by the morning papers th1 u match occurred at the Mil sonsqUlre a boxing Garden on Monday evening of which partook two ons between persons Believe believe all the elements of a prizefight lieve that such exhibitions are graceful grace-ful to the city in the highest < J agree demoralizing d their men Vld In moralizing to young tendency leading to disn pect of law and order J therefore respectfully request that our department hereafter to hold after prevent aU attempts such elhibitiens within the city I am aware that it is exclaimed that the to permit exhi court may ompel you bition + of tl is character to be held but if such is the fact I trust you will let the courts tke the responsibility This vaaread at the meeting of the board on tie above date and in compliance com-pliance jwith the request contained therein that body promptly directed the superintendent to call the attention ofthe aptains to the following order promulgated in the summer of 1882m In an official opinion given to this department by the corporation counsel glove fights are declared a violation of law You will therefore not permit any such exhibitions to take place within your precinct or if you have informa to believe tion or reasonable grounds that a glove fight is about to take place you will obtain warrants for the arrest of the persons interested and intending to fightand also for those who instigate abet or do any act toward the furtherance further-ance of any such fight It Superintendent Walling was prompt to obey instructions while those pecu niarily interested in the success of the SullivanGreenfield contest which being be-ing fixed for the night of the 17th had to bear the brunt this fresh onslaught by the authorities on fistic sport bestirred be-stirred themselves in an effort to checkmate i check-mate n mote which threatened to spoil their game and present them frc Ui enriching en-riching themselves through the willingness willing-ness or the sporting public to give up 1 and J2 apiece to see the champion and his latest foreign antagonist slug each other Col Spencer was secured a 3 Counsel i i Coun-sel and when Sullivan Greenfield and their managers were taken to Jefferson j i I Market police court onwarrants served the following morning he appeared for j them before Justice Patterson who accorded ac-corded them a private examination His argument wets the uarae as made by him before the late Justice Gardner in J the MaceSlade case two years ago he holding that the meeting to take place between Sullivan and Greenfield in Madison Square Garden was not a prizefight in any sense but merely an exhibition of scientific sparring to be decided by excess of points scored the contestants making no attempt to knock out or injure each other To those who had seen Sullivan A Sul-livan in previous similar encounters en-counters the Colonels utterances afforded much amusement Upon being questioned both principals bore out the statements made by counsel who then put in evidence the papers in the Mace Slade case before the Supreme Court and asked that this case which he claimed was a parallel to that previously pre-viously dismissed be sent to that Court and the prisoners remanded in custody of counsel To this Justice Patterson agreed and all the parties left Court and crossed Sixth Avenue to Johnny Carmans for internal refreshments The appearance of Sullivan in the street gras the signal for the gathering of a crowd and so great was the crush in Carmans that the champion was forced I to seek retirement in an Tipper room The parties appeared in Supreme Court Chambers at 10 am November 17th but a postponement till 130 pm was granted bY Judge Bar rett upon request of Districtattorney Gore who said he had only just received re-ceived the papers and had not had an opportunity to read them and make a return It was expected that the case would come before Judge Donohue who dismissed the MaceSlade case but io declined to hear it In the afternoon Assistant Districtattorney Gore exam ined the principals and Pat Sheedy as to the nature of the proposed encoun I ter the testimony elicited being to the j effect that it was to be purely an exhibi 1 tian of skill with soft gloves for which Sullivan was to receive 65 per cent and Greenfield 35 per cent of the receipts and that there was no written agreement as to rules etc Judge Barnett Bar-nett took the testimony retired to aids > private room with counsel and within m hour rendered his decision in writing writ-ing as follows The question is whether the defendants defend-ants Sullivan and Greenfield intended to engage in a friendly sparringmatch not calculated to injure either party or in a serious physical contest The latter is illegal whether with or without gloves tie former as a mere exhibition of skill ii not illegal It is difficult to I determine the legality or illegality of these exhibitions in advance The 1 agreement in the present instance if strictly canted out will notproduce the i spectacle of a prizefight nor indeed of any illegal contention Of course there istQ be hitting the same as there is hitting in fencing but the blows are to have no relation to the injury or exhaustion of either party It is impossible to sav on this testimony that a prima facie oase of intention to commit a crime has been made out There is in reality no evidence o ° anv such intent If the agreement Ye a sham tto evade the law or if the jjarjtes fi o beyond the terms and restrictions of the agreement the police being present can instantly interfere in-terfere and crest I all ftie parties engaged en-gaged in the commission of a misdemeanor misde-meanor That a the true solution of the difficult presented by theca the-ca e ITt n dvunc of what is to iiappei L pon till evidence I feel con strtinef to < frc rge the prisoners leavig to fhb i ice to prevent any Dl17efigbt or Un I a ful eonteritiori 3i D rectly or indirectly whether gloves are used or not If blows are struck Which are likely to cause injnry to the parties or to inflame their passions or the passions of bystanders or which cause a disturbance or breach of the peace or which are in anv just sense brutal or revolting it will be the duty of the police to act promptly and with vigilance But as I am unable to see that anything of this kind is contemplated con-templated by a fair view of the agreement agree-ment I cannot permit these people to be convicted in advance of an overt act The proceedings were concluded too late to l1nvc the result appear in the evening papers of Monday and although al-though there was a report current in court that the orip nal programme would be carried out that night it was deemed advisable W postpone the exhibition ex-hibition until te following evening Accordingly te thousand or more persons who Baking chances went to the garden 4n Monday evening found the building unlighted and a placard giving noice of postponement tacked on the dJors As our forms will have gone trpress before the gladiators face each ether between the ropes we must necessarily defer till next week a description des-cription of this very friendly display of silence but we shall be quite as much surprised as the spectators will be disappointed dis-appointed if it differs materially from r other contests in which the champion has shown forth hereNew York Clipper I Clip-per According to the New York Herald the pugilists met on Tuesday evening before a crowd of 2000 people Only two rounds were gone through with when both men drew blood the polic interfered and the two were conducte to jail amid the groans and hisses of the crowd Notes JIM MACK We learn that the ex champion pugilist Jim Mace figures as the aggrieved party in a divorce suit in London England The ground on which he bases his petition is bigamous adultery on the part of his wife who it is said will set up in defense that she did not contract the second marriage until she had satisfied herself that at the time of her marriage to Mnce he had a wife living and that he delayed applying for a divorce until he received authentic information of the death of his first wife A correspondent to the Clipper suggests sug-gests several changes in the playing rules including the increase of the size of the basebags to one yard square each i the turning of the homebase square with the batsmans lines the placing of the pitchers position fivefeet feet farther frOm the homeplate the game to consist of six inning with five men to be put out in each inning and eleven men on each side the pitcher or the pitcher and catcher to be changed eachinning It is absolutely necessary that the old rule of 1874 defining a balk should be reintroduced in the League and American Ameri-can code of rules or otherwise base running will be seriously checked The rule ought to read as follows Should the pitcher when about to deliver he ball to the bat make any one of the series of motions he habitually makes in so delivering the ball and then fail to deliver the ball to the bat a balk shall be declared JI Every pitcher has a re gularseries of motions in pitching and he should be prohibited from making a single one of them without promptly following it up by pitching the ball to the bat Any motion in stepping forward for-ward or bending his body which is not followed bv a delivery of the ball to the bat should constitute a balk flipper flip-per I |