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Show Can Lick Any Man in the World.. "I like this statue business." Sullivan said to a reporter of the New York Sun last Tuesday. "It gives me plenty of time to study and amuse myself quietly, as I - like to do. It's hard work, too. You think I don't stand steady? Of course, any one will shake a little, standing stand-ing up straight there, but there is a little fault in the stage. That is an. old one. We have used it in every city the last six weeks. To-night there is sure to be a new one, and there won't be any shaking." shak-ing." Sullivan says he weighs 219 pounds, and before he started on the road weighed 243 pounds. He feels better bet-ter than he ever did, and does not touch liquor of any description. Mr. George Lester says that he is willing to put up $10,000 against any other man's $5,000 that Sullivan can lick any man in the world. |