8

THE PRIZE FIGHT
BETWEEN
Sullivan and Trevillian!

A One-Sided Affair Throughout!

SULLIVAN WHIPPED THE FIRST
ROUND!

Seven Rounds Fought–Time, 11
Minutes!

At 8 a.m. today the train from Virginia, with Trevillian and friends, arrived at Gold Hill and attached the two cars at this place containing Sullivan and his friends. The train proceeded to the vicinity of the Merrimac mill, and there drove stakes and stretched ropes. Before completing the ring the Sheriff of Ormsby county appeared upon the scene and commanded those engaged to desist. Stakes were then drawn and the party re-embarked and returned to the vicinity of the Eureka switch where they again disembarked and the ring was again re-established at 10:35 A. M. Trevillian immediately shied his castor into the ring and followed it, and Sullivan immediately after. Considerable discussion here ensued upon the question of the appointment of a referee, during which Sheriff Cook of Lyon county entered the ring and commanded the principals to withdraw from the ring. The seconds and backers of Sullivan and Trevillian refused to withdraw them, and announced their determination to have the fight go on. The Sheriff was finally expelled from the ring, and the question of the appointment of a referee again discussed. Sheriff Cook attempted again to enter the ring, when he was restrained from so doing. He then retired. Finally, after an hour's wrangling, John Rowe, of Virginia, was chosen referee, and time was called at 11:45 A. M. At the call both men came to the scratch, seemingly anxious for the fray, and struck hands.

Round First–Sullivan hit Trevillian on the forehead with his left. Trevillian got his right in on Sullivan's neck; staver from Sullivan's right on Trevillian's neck. Trevillian hit short with his left. Two from Sullivan's right under Trevillian's eye. Sullivan prettily stopped a heavy one from Trevillian's right, and again Trevillian did the same with a blow from Sullivan's right. Trevillian got in a terrific winder under Sullivan's left ear, which felled him like an ox, he bleeding profusely from the mouth. First blood and knock down for Trevillian.

Round Second–Sullivan came up very groggy and was easily floored by a blow from Trevillian's right upon his left breast.

Round Third–Sullivan again came to the scratch, and immediately received a blow under the left eye which again floored him.

Round Fourth–Sullivan came to time and went to grass without a blow.

Round Fifth–same as last.

Round Sixth–Sullivan knocked down immediately upon coming to the scratch by a blow from Trevillian's right, under the left eye.

Round Seventh–A repetition of Round sixth.

The sponge was thrown up and Trevillian declared the winner of the fight.

Sullivan, at its conclusion, was unable to stand, and had to be carried to the cars by his friends. Upon the arrival of the train at Baltic Switch, it was deemed advisable to remove him to the house of a friend there.

The party returned to this city at 1:30, without a single disturbance or fight.

The first round virtually whipped Sullivan, he not being able to ward off a single one of Trevillian's sledge-hammer blows after having received the terrible winder under his left ear, and it was simply brutal to force him to receive six others in as many rounds.

The result of this fight astonished the friends of Sullivan, he having a much better record than Trevillian as a fighter. John Sullivan was born of English parents in Melbourne, Australia, and is about 38 years of age. He fought 11 battles in that country and was victorious in nine.

Thus the much talked of prize fight has ended by almost a "walk-over" for Trevillian, he having vanquished his opponent in just eleven minutes. The best of feeling prevailed, after the result became known, between the friends of the opposing bruisers, and they all returned in the same train, without a word of bitterness or anger being interchanged. This, and the absence of all drunkenness, upon the occasion of what we consider such a brutal exhibition, is a matter of extreme wonder.

Trevillian fought at 152 pounds weight and Sullivan at 132.

Seconds for Trevillian–Bing Williams and Thomas Kean; for Sullivan–Jack Richardson and Ned Naples.