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Show JOHN L.'S OLD SECOND TELLS OF RYAN FIGHT By International News Service. DAVENPORT. Iowa, Feb. 3. In one of ?::!!!van's most desperate fights that with Paddy Ryan at Mississippi City, " Miss., in which the championship was ar -:ake Dr. T. V. Chandier of this citv was Sullivan's chief se-'ond. The battle bat-tle was with bare knuckles. "I: was one of the bloodiest fichts ever :-eon anywhere." Pr. Chandler said today, "during nearly the whole of the fight 'blood poured from Ryan. ears in a stream . from the concussion of the terrific blows . Sullivan dealt him on the head in an early round. And the fiesh around his bo'ly was bruised in a long red welt from one of rhe bear-like hugs Sullivan r;avc him in a clinch. "Ryan was champion at tht time, but after only a few rounds had been fought Sullivan know he was his master, and 'oaiing bri'-k to hi? corner alter one of the rounds told me that hu could finish it at almost any time. "I was Sullivan's chief second. At that time I was contf-nder for the middleweight middle-weight cha:nj-'ionship. Ttis other seconds were Joe Goss. English heavyweight 'hamplon, and Pete McCoy, American lightweight champion." ' |