ATHLETICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 301, 30 April 1896, Page 2

ATHLETICS.

The one and only John L. Sullivan discoursed to some members of the Fourth Estate in Chicago recently, the tenor of his ebullition being that he once had 2,000,000d01, and now owned that much of experience. But the big fighter was still confident that he was on earth, and if either of the big bluffers (Corbett or Fitz) were to take him on in a room, - and not in a twenty-acre lot, he would yet make them believe that the window would be their easiest means of exit. Most of them who took him on got back from the tomb, barring Pompadour Jim, and as John L. sadly remarks, “Oh ! he licked a man that had tried to drink all the rum there was flowing on the continent ” John’s ideas of a hereafter are sublime; but it matters little to him, as he aptly puts it, having raised all the Hades he wants on earth.—American Exchange. Here are the measurements of FitzSimmons and Peter Maher, which will prove interesting for the sake of comparison : — Fitz Simmons — Age, 34; height. sft ll|in ; weight, I681bs; neck, 15in ; chest, 41 in ; chest expanded. 44in; waist, 32in ; thighs, 20in ; calves, 13|in ; arms outstretched, 75-Jin ; biceps, 12in ; forearm, ll|in; wrist, 6Jin. Maher— Age, 27; height, sft llfin ; weight, 1781bs , neck, 17|in ; chest, 40in ; chest expanded, 42Ain ; waist, 30 7-Bin ; thighs, 23£in ; calves, 15£in , arms outstretched, 74in ; biceps, 13in ; forearm, 12in ; wrist, 7|in.