A GREAT FIGHT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 323, 11 July 1889, Page 3

A GREAT FIGHT.

SULLIVAN BEATS KTLRAIN FOR -THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. SEVENTY-TWO ROUNDS, i BBUTES HAMMERING AWAY FOR 2i HOURS. ' v _ London, July -9. News has been received of the great hght having at last taken place, though as yet the ground of combat has not transpired. The fight was for the championship of the world, and the combatants were the well known Sullivan, and Kilrain, the man wh(, fought a “ draw ” for the Champion', ship, with Jem Smith, about two yeavs ago, when it was said that over a hundred rounds were fought, though this was subsequently denied. The fight was a fierce and brutal one, .T>ut Sullivan had tbe best of it—that is whatlittln “ best " there was in such an engsgemgnt. The two men fought out 72 rounds, and tha affair lasted for two hours and a quarter, for which length of time it is wonderful hew two men could have stood it, but they were both as “ hard as nails.” Blows that would have killed ordinary men seemed to have as little effect on Sullivan and Kilrain, as hailstones on a bullock’s hide. After the first hour the contest was against Kilrain, and he fell repeatedly to avoid punishment, but he continued with a dogged resoluteness that in a better cause would COm- , majid universal admiration. It was, however, nothing but 't'fiA rolisi'ngUJi'TSrutisb instincts, and some of the animals coming under the heading of quadrupeds might have been taught a lesson in brute passions it they could be educated by the standard of this fight. Sullivan, the champion of brutes, is now the champion of pugilists throughout the world. At one time Sullivan retired from the ring and said he would not come out again—in fact his drunken orgies made some men look upon him as a wreck, but he has now again defeated the man who was looked upon as the best in the world. Other flghte among the lesser lights are likely to result from this great encounter. Later.—Another message from New York states that troops were employed to stop the fight between Kilrain and Sullivan, and the pugilists proceeded to Ijouisteia, the great encounter eventual-y oomteg off at a place in Richburg, Over two thousand spectators, being people of all classes, witnessed the affair, The American papers publish great descriptions of it,