Show JOHN L AND PADDY RYAN Their Agreement to HScet in tie cst to Thump Each Other Three years ago says the New York Sun of the 9th inst John L Sullivan whipped Paddy Ryan and won for himself him-self a name in history and a place in the hearts of his countrymen Since that event Ryan has fired challenges at Sullivan Sulli-van with praiseworthy perseverance and the sporting public has been looking or with interest ready to come down with its hundreds and its thousands whenever it should please the fighters to fight But these great men have been as hard to bring together as are the effete monarchs mon-archs of the Old World Sullivans friends declared that Ryan would rather talk than fight Paddys friends said the Big Fellow was afraid and things were getting very much mixed when yesterday yester-day the douds of doubt and bitterness were dispelled by the glad tidings that Paddy and John had come to an understanding under-standing and in the near futnre would punch each other in the far Vest Early in the afternoon Ryan was wandering wan-dering around the Police Gazette office his big blue eyes filled with the sad look of hope deferred and expressing his private belief that he Paddy was a sucker and that Sullivan was never coming But he did Sullivan wrong bveff as he spoke the Pride of Boston and his friends climbed from a Bound I Brook train which had brought them from Philadelphia and fought their way through a howling crowd to the ferryboat ferry-boat If it had been an Arctic explorer he Father of his Country or Grover Cleveland the crowd would have gone to the ferry and stopped But it was Sullivan and the crowd didnt stop It paid its three cents fare almost to a man mid left hardly any room on the boat for wagons Mr Sullivan stood the adula ion as long as he could get air enough to iil his big lungs When that gave out he went outside chartered an empty Tuck and climbed into it with Arthur Chambers Arthur Pierce Callum and William E Harding who accompanied lira liraA A glance of Sullivans eye told the crowd that he wanted the truck to himself him-self so they let him have it and worshipped wor-shipped at a distance during the rest of he trip On thc New York side Sullivan hired a twohorse carriage and offered to pay for the use of the truck But the driver intimated that his truck had become be-come sacred to him and refused to take my pay like the Paris cabman who carried car-ried Victor Hugo for nothingand the Berlin coachman who extended a like courtesy to Prince Bismarck Sullivan showed pleasure at this evidence of do rotion and was whirled to the Gazette office I Paddy Ryan stepped bareheaded to the door to greet him and escorted him politely litely to the inner office where business I was to be transacted There sporting men of note were thick as blackberries and each man had from one to a dozen suggestions Sullivan listened to them all with patience and then had the articles arti-cles of agreement drawn up as he liked He said he had had enough of law and so the affair must be managed so as to preclude all danger of his being arrested or otherwise troubled Every precaution was taken to this end The coming fight was mentioned in the articles as a fair standup exhibition with small gloves according to the new rules of the London ring The said exhibition to be for the sum of 2500 a subscribed purse the Police Gazette diamond belt and the championship of the world the winner to receive in addition twothirds of all excursion money and the loser one i third The fight will occur on the 16th of June at a place to be chosen by the principals or by the donor of the belt in case they should fail to agree on a location Both men must appear in the ring between 6 and 10 a m and Harry Hill will hold the purse until the winner is named When nothing more remained to be done but to add the signatures every one sighed with relief and Sullivan and Ryan sat down to have a talk while Jere Dunn who killed Jimmy Elliott winked at Matsa Sorakichi the wink that makes Americans and Japanese brothers and took him and Lord Dashington Murphy out for a drink The champion and exchampion sat side by side for a long while and everyone every-one had a good chance to compare them Sullivan looked every inch a fighter and the greatest compliment that could be paid him from the fighting standpoint would be to describe him accurately His polished shoes his glossy hat his fine blue Prince Albert coat and his new spring trousers of a remarkable yellow hue were exactly such as a rich and prosperous pros-perous champion would be supposed to wear His coat bulged out in every direction di-rection under the impulse of his swelling chest Lumps and ridges rose on his arms and legs when he moved them and a big cigar stuck in the lefthand corner of his mouth and pointing round toward his ear completed a picture of noble independence Sullivan was in splendid condition as sober as any Judge could be and his clear skin and appearance appear-ance seemed to contradict the stories told about his heavy drinking Paddy Ryan didt look so much like a fighter as Sullivan did but he looked very fine too His stylish black suit fit to perfection his face was wreathed in smiles and a big green emerald shone below his auburn moustache No one seeing the two men together would ever have supposed tHey were going to fight Whatever Ryan said Sullivan Sul-livan concurred in and when Sullivans cigar went out Ryan leaned over toward iiirn and gave him a light from the cigar looked be held in his mouth Sullivan his thanks and said After all Paddy its just a matter of business wheres the use of hard feelings feel-ings There 1 aint any replied Paddy And Paddy said Sullivan if I lick YOU Ill shake hands with you and if you lick me Ill shake just the same Ryan said he would shake on the same Both men said they would principles w JHf1V 1 l UVJa i l have no difficulty in agreeing on a place and each declared his willing to fight providedthe inhabitants to fight anywhere ness habitants had plenty of money and the The magistrates were not too severe occur in Montana fight will probably near Butte City the principals went to 430 m At p the City to sign hotel in Jersey Taylors came back to New York articles Ryan waited for a train to Philadelphia and Sullivan telling what he had to say while delphia He said the trouble he ate Philadelphia raw oysters was all owing to Billy in McCaf OBrien Speaking of OBrien and eloquent and uncon frey Sullivan grew solilo sciously dropped into this vein of guy thats quyIm loafer I am he said Im a must it and I suppose call me what they ducks o nice couple a be so for theyre Oh lie If they tried and couldnt ten ahie and theyre fit to be Im a loafer yes in cotton under glass cover put un er a What do I think about this fight do I what can want to say Well I dont and that Ill Win but Ill bet money and myself will have an outside Paddy Im thats over of 2500 When bet to the other side and will stay going over Every city of years couple there for a imitates New York and country this in would be for the only way to fight now some inventive duck to get up a machine to carry 700 or 800 people up into the air A and have the fight that way When it was over you could get off by letting the lawyers fight about what State it was in May be if I go over the water and lick everybody and then come back here it will startS things Up again and New York will be all right As soon as I can now Im going back to Boston and try to get back my boy Ive got to have him even if I never fight again Sullivan weighed yesterday 232 pounds ana Ryan two pounds less Ryan is HIP taller and Sullivan the better built man They will fight at catch weights and sporting men predict a rattling fight Sullivan laughed when he was asked about fighting McCaffrey Ill fight him anywhere he said whenever Ive gotjime If he wants to come out when J fight Ryan Ill give him a show and fight him an hour after Im through wither with-er first fight whether I win or lose McCaftreyisiit nearly as good a man as Mitchell and its foolish for any man of sense to talk of his knocking me out with a difference of 60 or 70 pounds between be-tween us |