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Show That Is, Not Always, and .John ! . s nscs Hfl Dangers in the path 1 TO the championship Hit; When Herbert Slade Almost 1 Went Out Boxing Glove Hllf as a Cure-All. (BY JOHN L. SULLIVAN.) Four thousand dollars wns ottered to f Billy Gladden to drug mo so that I would Hf.j bo out of condition when I met Paddy H1 Ryan. Tho people who offered this bribe H'fk to Madden tried to hire a thus In Now Hrm Orleans to set mo out of tho way, murder H'-nlg mQ necessary, to save tho money they'd HH hoi on Paddy.' 1 heard that tho sum of- ' Hr fered to the thug was J2500. I have al- Hhpj ways said that theso highbinders were H$a not friends of Ryan's, and I want to have Hi it understood always that Faddy fought j Hph me on the level. The fellows who tried Hl7 to shut mo out were simply crazy bo- Hflf' i cause they were going broke If the fight RiM'j came off. M'i The story of tho attempt to do mo foul Ifk pot out right nrter the fight, so that when HVw Madden. Joe Gosf, Peto McCoy and Bob ;2i; Farrell started North there were crowds H(t at every station to see uh. Parson Davlcs Htr managed an exhibition for us In McCor-mlck's McCor-mlck's hall in Chicago, and this show Ha.x was what somebody called. Ryan's make. H&J 0n tno wa' t0 tno 11,111 1 wns lieI(1 l1 by HH' a young fellow who said to me; M "Sulllvnn. you're on top today, but you Hf4 won't stay there long, for Paddy Ryan f'W will como at you again, and he'll, lick you Hfli po you won't know East from West. The wi' fight was a mistake and you're a mls- Pti The man who made this break after-HiT-3, o ward became one of my best friends and Hfr'&'l mado a lot of money betting on me. jfjf Herbert Slado Almost Got His. inf' nc of 1,10 greatest receptions I got H'fcs' during my tour of 1SS3 was in Baltimore. Ht H Ovor ten thousand good men paid to sec HF 9 our show, which gave three performances. K'i and there were thousands morn who HliH couldn't get In who stayed outsldo and HiFVl . Eavo us th sturdy hip. hip hurrah every HMm llrne any ot us appeared in sight. Bnltl- Hm9 moro has ginger In Its blood all right. HftRs ne ot 11,0 newspapers- nominated me for Vttii Congress. Htfin An artist came to me In Baltimore and WtlgS tried to Induce me to stand for him while HiV ne nul mv sape on canvas. I To offered Ht;9 quite a tidy sum if I'd do this turn for '1 certain hours for several days. I couldn't (1 that, ut I stood before him for half H,4 an hour for art's sake, in a cold room. l.V3r Tho folks In Baltimore treated ur so jj::'' handsomely that Herbert Slade, who was ; .r doing the boxing turn with me, waited to 7 do pomethlng for the crowd, and he said rs' to mo before one of our performances: Hr'jcr "John, I'm coming at you rough and H;1I yqu've got to do the same thing to me. so jjgi to give them something to remember." Hi" Ho pushed somo stiff welts at me " so that it kept me on my toes standing off i his rushes. So good did Slndc mako his '!3 play that he got me i excited toward tho ' :A end, and after driving him to the ropes . I was about to put him down and out H- 111 when I held back the punch Just in time. $ The crowd nearly lifted tho floor. H'1b Boxing' Glove as a Cure-All. -'k "During tho winter thero's going to be a 'MX lot do,nff 'n the boxing line, and beforo li the robins go to housekeeping again tho game will have looked up. It's the beet H.'l'l exercise there If. and my advice to l i every young man is buy boxing gloves H.a'if instead of cigarettes. There was a man '"tr who was S7 years young when he died 'S 'I last winter in Now York began boxing '.1 ? fifteen years before tho Mexican war, d'1' and kept it up almost to tho day of '.Itlf hip death. Benjamin Yon Slyke was his name, and he'd taught 000 men how H:L4 j.' to box in his gymnasium in Daly's thea- -.JVil ter building. He knew John C. Heenan, i;;f Tom Hyer, John Morrlsuey and a lot Hj tr moro of us. Wq f Of course boxing won't save anv man's ; 1 health if he does other things to offset 'y tho good effects of It, like some things ; I vo done like eating six broiled chickens In ono feed, .is I did one night in New 3 1 York when seeing the town with Tom H3 f O'Rourke and some others. Tho doctors r had to take a couple of hundred stitches jj in me to sew up the hole thev 3 f mado getting thoso chickens out of me. lj But boxing will cure dyspepsia, cold I feet, sore head, nervousness, fidgets and Ksr t a lot of ther thlnps that medicine won't. !t If the trade in boxing gloves picks up jlH Ihero won't be so many sanitariums and ''r t ' O'Seer houses coining money. You hear (Heferees Don't Always Know. '1' Il'a a strange thing, how wise sports WJri 71'111 ,eavc the punch out of their reckon- s, . ng in sizing up boxers. They do it '.U . almost every time Fitz takes out his . liamnier in the ring, and nearlv all of i:! them did it when Nelson finally got a H.' finish fight on with Brltt. The public ? makes up its mind on what the sports tell them, and that Is why there la so Nelson reaching Britt with n vicious body punch! It was these fearful blows of Nelson that so weakened JBritt that he eventually succumbed to the knockout punch. much bad guessing and bolting of 2 to 1 tho wrong way. Eddie Granoy, who refereed tho Brltt-Nelson Brltt-Nelson fight, Is ono of thoso fellows who thinks fancy foot work and pretty handling of tho hands counts moro in a fight than wallops. He was in the ring when Eddie Hanlon hammored young Corbett to a frazzle, .put him down for the count In tho eighteenth round and almost al-most had him out, he declared it a. draw. All who saw that light thought Hanlon earned a decision, but that night, after the light. Granoy excused himself this way: "I'll nover lake a championship away from any man unless he's so badly worsted that he's dono up so far that It amounts to a knockout." Yes, Indeed. But Granoy refereed tho fight between Young Corbett and Brltt when Brltt was cut to ribbons and Corbett Cor-bett didn't have any marks to speak of. Yet ho declared Brltt the winner. Billy Rocho dcclarod Brltt had It a shado better over Nelson In a former fight, and ho decided In Jimmy's favor. "1 might have called It a draw." said Roche, orating after the tight, "but as long as I'm roferee there'll bo no draw decisions." And the next night, at the Berger-Casey battle, when the Judges disagreed and it wnB up to Billy to say, he stuck both hands Into tho air and yelled "draw." Real Fighting Gets tho Money. Tho public ought to stick for finish lights all over. There'd bo more money in these battles for the scrappers and thero'd bo decisions to. mean something. 1 always arranged so that there wouldn t be any doubt about what happened when I was in tho ring, and the result was that I never played to small houses. Suppose the recent big affair between the little men was advertised as another twenty-round twenty-round go, do you suppose thero'd be half the Interest or money in It? Never In a thousand years. Every man that gave up his scads for a scat knew that something some-thing was going to happen, and even tho referee, whoever he might be. couldn't switch awoy from declaring that there'd been a fight. Look at what happened In tho Klondike 4th of July when Jack O'Brien of Philadelphia fought Jack (Twin) Sullivan Sulli-van of Boston. O'Brien knocked Sulllvun to the grass clRht different times, tho bell saving him several llmos. but It was a "draw" because this had been agreed beforehand, In case both men were on tholr pins at tho end of the twentieth round, and tho purse was split oven, nbout 5CO00 a ploco. Thero'd be -about as much sense In declaring a ball game a tie at tho end of nine innlugo if neither team had got sunstruck, although the score was 37 to 0. Tho only way that fighting can hold tho Interest Is to havo fighting as It used to be. the real thing. Otherwise, you might as woll play croquet, or button, button, who's got tho price. ' On Z IBee. |