SULLIVAN v. SLADE.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1309, 12 October 1883, Page 2

SULLIVAN v. SLADE.

The New York Herald of August 8 contains the following anent the Sullivan-Slade match : — The aclriev inents of the previous night afforded food for reflection to '.he wise men of < tisticdom. Why had Slade,. big. as he ! was been knocked out of time in three rounds, and by what methods had he* been led to hope for success in his prospective matches 1 The whole matter I was explained to a reporter by Harry Montague,,,, his msuagei\ The size of it j is\ this," -said, he"? '''Slade is a man ; wonderfully endowed by nature.' He j has Had little art, and seems in no hurry '■■ to acquire it. But were he to act as he had been told, he would develop marvellously. He has been an incubus ion our hands. He is lazy. That's the whole trouble. He won't train. I have time and again urged him to walk, Ito ride, to. do something to harden his ! muscles and put him in shape for the , ordeal he had to pass through, but he ! never tninded me. He was utterly ' heedless of niy advice. Sometimes he swam. These South Sea Islanders seem to think water their element just as much as land, and they freely take to it He would swim miles, ut he would not walk them. Tin? result was he came before the public in a condition far inferior to his opponent." " And was fairly licked," supplemented Jem Mace. " Yes, he was," said Harry Montague. ." We make no bones about it.' Our. man, was beaten out and out, throughout the whole exhibition. Mr Suljivan acted a gentleman. II- took no undue advantage, aud bis ; conduct towards his opponent was j kindly whenever opportunity oSfet-ed. His backer is Mr Mace. He was not a bit startled. On -the contrary, he was agreeably 'surprised'' 1 He' believed Slade was game. When he saw him j pick himself up after Sullivan's sl.-dge-i hammer blows, and plant himself on the : platform to get more punishment, he ' felt that be was x-ight. I will admit ! that I did not have so much hope. j When I saw Slade landed, Mace asked jme what I thought of him. ' That | .Newfoundland pup? said I. 'The same,' said he, { <aud I intend to make a. dog of him.' He has done so. Slade for the first time in his life has received a lesson."