O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 · Boston, Pilot publishing company · leaf 33
lit. After five or six rounds,diuing wliicli he was knocked down literally every time hestood up, Mitchell adoi^ted a system of running away and fall-ing to escape blows. A cold rain was falling, and Sulli-van became chilled, and in the thirty-fifth round he hada fit of ague. He was overtrained; he… … in this reduction not only had he sacrificed ner-vous force to muscular power, but he had lost thenecessary fat to keep him from getting chilled inthe slow fight ensured by the Lon-don Rules. In America, Sullivans examplehas done much to bring glove con-tests into professional practice;and when the…
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