Show I 1 fighters r ight ers defeated in M 0 10 i street ri j F apo rolt i 9 ay h ts i I 1 L I 1 I 1 Beca because tiso a man may bo be a good fighter in the prize ring under marquis of rules it does not always mean that he can win a goas go as you yoa please or rough and tumble encounter outside of the arena many a ring champion has met his bis match in the highways and byways of everyday life where science arid and rules do not count in the game says gays the new york sun john L sullivan has had in his long strenuous career as many battles batties outside of the ring as inside of it and on several occasions he ao has received the worst of barroom bar room or street brawls william Ho Ilo garety a boston barber who was a close friend of sullivans SpIll vans made the big fellow run for his life one day the row occurred in shop sullivan who was drinking heavily at the time called the barber some hard names and finally aimed a terrific blow at the batters lat faco face Ho garety however was too quick for the hurley burley boston pugilist then champion of the world for grabbing up a heavy water pitcher ne struck sullivan such a stunning blow on the head that john went down for the count some friends interfered then and sullivan coming to his senses hurried to the tha nearest drug store to be patched up several years ago sullivan was loading up in jimmy wakelyn Wak elys saloon at sixth avenue and fifty third street when he began to abuse wakely accusing him of having been a party to the alleged drugging of john L in the batters lat fight with jim borbett Corbett in new orleans wakely was one ot of sullivans backers in that affair so that ho he felt the accusation keenly after protesting in vain wakely losing all patience unhooked a blow that sent sullivan sprawling to the floor and while he lay there dazed and rattled some say wakely kicked the former champion in the eye whether this w was so or not tho e fact remains that sullivan went to his hotel with the worst looking shiner 1 that ever decorated his fighting face this little roughhouse rough house affair broke up a friendship of twenty years standing for sullivan and wakely have never spoken to each other since in other numerous impromptu battles batties sullivan has emerged at the littie end of the horn herbert slade the maori whom john L licked in three slashing rounds in madison Madi sou square garden in 1883 mode made the big fellow cry enough in a fierce rough and tumble fight in harry maynards maynardi Mayn ards saloon caloon in frisco while they were giving exhibitions together on tho the road under the management of al smith sullivan was wrestled to tile floor and slade was in the act of choking him when smith jumped in and pulled the maori away sullivan did ld not tr try y to retaliate when tho the men met the next day jim corbett Cor betl who won sullivans sullivan 1 title never could be induced to fight outside of the ring charley mitchell Ml on one occasion hunted up corbett on the bowery where the latter was showing in a theater just after he was matched to fight sullivan and waylaying way laying james in a barroom next door challenged the latter to a rough and tumble battle then and there mitchell had paddy slavin with him and both were drunk they called corbett all sorts of names but james simaly would not fight and finally withdrew from the scene but not until after a bystander had pun punched cheI slavin in the mouth while fatty langtry a bowery tough had threatened mitchell with an empty bottle after that matchell Ml insulted corbett repeatedly in the street and in various hotels but gentleman jim waited un until lie he got the blowing englishman in tho the ring at jacksonville when the latter became a veritable chopping block |