An American correspondent The Sullivan-Kilrain embroglio has taken on another phase, the champion says he will not fight anyone until he is ready, and Kilrain's friends claim that this is equivalent to a back down. Richard K. Fox, who poses as one of Kilrain’s backers, is to present his protege with a belt. This trophy can carry nothing with it but the esteem of Mr Fox, as no one here will recognise Kilrain as champion until Sullivan is either dead or withdrawn from the fistic arena. The fashion of putting boxers asleep with swinging righ-handers has become so prevalent that a good straight lefthanded man is a kind of rara avis in this way. Kilrain is essentially a left-handed man, and a good one too, and anyone who faces him will find it very hard to break through his guard. Woe betide the rusher, for he will surely work out his own destiny.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 33, 27 August 1887, Page 4
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