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Show A "PROFESSOR" CAME TO GRIEF Sullivan's Two Bouts With Donaldson. John L. on Those Who Class Him Along With the Usual "Has-Beens." The Great Diamond Belt'Event Sullivan Sul-livan Would Keep All "Tainted Money" Right at. Home. (BY JOHN L SULLIVAN.) "Prof." John Donaldson, known as the "champion of th Wit" faced me In 18S0 at Cincinnati for a purse of $;r.O. Think of me fighting for such a bunch of chicken-feed! After three lounds, the "professor" quit and pulled off the gloves. The audienc hooted nnd sulci sarcastic things. "I am sick and out f condition" was the excuse the professor gave But he was threatened and coaxed into putting n the gloves again, and he went on for another round. T hammered ham-mered him .ill OVet the ring hut by mnnlng and holding ho managed to stay. That was a big feather In my cap. which hadn't many plumes at the time. Just pin-feathers, except for the one I collected from Joe Ooss. Donaldson tried to got back his reputation repu-tation by challenging me to a battle with hard glo n Wo met again on December 24. The professor was put out In ten rounds, lasilng twenty-one minutes. .Most of the time ho hugged the floor or ran around tho ring, but finally I got him placed right and the Job was done. We were arrested tho next fifty (Christmas), and as no evidence was brought out against up. we Were discharged. dis-charged. One fellow, when asked by the Judge If he had seen any fighting, replied . "No. sir. it was a font race." "Who was ahead?" asked the Judge. "Donaldson. Sullivan was a close second, but rmild not irntch him." After we were discharged and the case closed, the Judge, tho prosecuting attorney, my lawyer, tho witnesses and myself went to a saloon and celebrated in bubbling champagne during a very enjoyable afternoon Cuts Out Red Stuff and Is Reducing Front. In sizing me up, sports make the mistake of putting me on the same level lev-el with has-beens who have passed out of the game. I dm k th.it Nearly all the fighters who went out quick failed to hold on because they got punished when trained to an edge, and they were too weakened to get back I never was overtrained hut once, and I never lecelved a bad beating from any man's fists. The fight has never boon clouted out of me, and that's why I am able to "come back." although the guessers don't believe It. But I 11 show them I weigh today 269 pounds and even if my hair is white, I'm going to make 230 and a new reputation. In all my battles, none of my opponents op-ponents were able to get near enough to do me any barm with their fists. In the one case where I was done up, it was owing to the fact that I had to chase a dub twenty-five miles around a ring Fltz's hammering: ended Corbett. Sharkey disabled Kid Mh'ov so that he never got back, even If ho did take five wives and is able to reach for the sixth. Terry MeOovcrn shows the effects ef-fects of the pounding ho got in his winning as well as his losing fights There are many other such cases, but no man living lias ever given me a : beating with his fists that counted. I have yet to feel the experience of getting get-ting a fair and square walloping, and It's because I've never had my courage broken by defeat under another man s blows that I can't be put out by comparing com-paring me with defeated and badly punished boxers. The Graat Gold and Diamond Belt Event, As the front goes down, I am beginning begin-ning to hope that I may once more see myself as I was In the summer of 1887, When the citizens of Boston gave me the championship belt. This was presented pre-sented to me In the Boston theater, August S of thot your, and there was more gold In It than was ever user in all the "gold cures," and more diamonds dia-monds than there are in all the baseball base-ball leagues in this country. There were 397 diamonds In It, and 250 of these were used to spell my name. It was a magnificent piece of workmanship, workman-ship, pronounced tho finest ever made, costing between $S00O and $10,000, ami the largest piece of fiat gold ever seen In the country. It was forty-eight Inches In length and twelve Inches wide. It weighed 2800 pennyweights, nnd took three months to make The sport9 in those days didn't have as much money us they have now, but they were willing to contribute handsomely hand-somely for the real thing In sport. Think of the generosity that made that belt and compare It with the statement of Mr. Jeffries that he retires from th ring because there is no money In fighting' Don't It prove what I said, that tho American people have lost interest and confidence in the wearers of fight titles which are supported by vaudeville stunts instead of fighting? Surest thing you know. When fighters will get back to fighting fight-ing and give the stage managers and the press agents the go-by, the American Amer-ican peorle will pass out the coin bv the shovelful, and the diamond belts and things, with Just as free a hand as they did when the American fighter stood first In the world. Just as they gao up for Dewey .vhen he won the belt in his style of scrapping. Would Keep All "Tainted" Money Where It Belongs. As to this "tainted money" business, I want to chip In with old John J). Jong enough to say that I think some of these geysers who are Bpoutlng against It are Just making a grand-stand play. The money Rockefeller puts up will buy Just as many meal tickets for the mls-nlonarles mls-nlonarles as If It had been handed out by gome fellow who had never smelled kerosene. Never heard of anybody refilling re-filling to take my money, did you? I've let go of a pile of It and a lot of it vvent to churches and charities, but I can't remember that anybody sent any of it back because I d made It selling my kind of knockout drops to put fellows fel-lows to sleep. Take Rockefeller's stuff, all you can get of it for the same reason Ben Butler But-ler used to advise the Democrat I of niaasacliUSettS (when he happened to bo a Democrat! to take Republican money to spoil the Egyptians. I wouldn't swap places with old Rock , but that wouldn't stop me from taking his coin, because what he has belongs to the rest of us as much as It docs to him. Ho has to live on crackers and milk, and Til bet he'd give nil his pile If he could eat and enjoy the dinner I had today of corned beef and cnbbage. His money Is not of much use to him, and we'd be doing him and ourselves a good turn by tnklng It. The money ought to be kept right In this country, though. It belongs here, and the heathen are not perishing for rod flannel shirts. You don't find John D.'a sparring partner. Rogers, who used to push a handcart around the Btreets of New Bedford, throwing his coin to the heathen. He's keeping It In the I'nlted States, where some dav it will OOme In handy, when he has let go of It. Th-9 Coming Bantam Championship Fracas. The Job done by Owen ftloran, the British bantam, oni Monte Attell In New York, makes him fit to meet Frankle Nell, our champlbn In this class, nnd I understand they will meet In San Kivm-i Kivm-i is' o In July, Attell Is entitled to another an-other try with the Britisher, for be certainly cer-tainly made a game battio; of It for the Inst ten rounds of the twenty, and was on bis feet at the finish. My opinion Is that while the British are Improving because they are 'earning 'earn-ing our style, any American can beat any Englishman of equal weight. Mo-ran Mo-ran deserved the decision over Attell, but the work Monte did stlOUl 1 rosnit In his keeping the confidence of his friends. Perhaps, after Mornn has tackled Frankle Nell, tho Britisher will have lost some of his steam, and Attell will be more in lino for the work cut Olll for him. Tom O'Rourko thinks so v. ell of Mi. ran that lie proposes to back him when he faces Noll, but Tom doesn t guess right oil the time. From what I can learn about Mot an the twenty rounds he will have to go against Nell Is too far a dlstam j for him, and his punching ability will be pretty well used up under the treatment the American champion will provide It will be a nice trial, however, and lam going to make the effort to sec It Mo-ran Mo-ran did not have the goods to put At-i.ll At-i.ll mit. and he will need more than ho has shown up to date to take any honors hon-ors from Nell, who has confidence, push and know-how to burn |
