SULLIVAN BROKE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 420, 16 November 1889, Page 5

SULLIVAN BROKE.

Another fortune has flipped through the fingers of John L. Sullivan like water. The !>20,000 which he received as a reward ior his \ictory o\ei Kilrain is gone, and Sullivan with thousands of doliaib of debts on his hands is dependent once more on his friends for enough to uot a drink. When the articles of tho Kilrain fight weie signed in Toronto SuUivan had to borrow to get there. His tiaining expenses \\ ere paid by his backers. When the fight was over he loft New Orleans with ,54,800. At Nashville he was arrested, and it took $3,600 to free him, to lawyers who talked wisely, and to the court ofh'cials and tho boys who did the real work. Chicago's great spree cost him !->6CO, and his pocket was picked of nearly >400. He had to borrow money to get to Now ork. When the stake money was received by him in New Yoik John L. began the piincely act again. It was commonly supposed that John L. got the whole of tho >?20,000 of stake money, but his receipts from the stakes v ere 'only £15.000. The champion established himself at the Vanderbiic House with eleven retainers, all of whose expenses ho paid, and nothing was too good for them. He returned to Boston with 52,000, all that remained of his small fortune. As soon as he reached Boston his creditors presented their bills, but .John L. could not pay all and wanted to have more fun out of his small fortune. He went to Crescent. Beach, and now owes over $15,000 to hotel-keeper*, wine men, clothiers and sporting friends. He is in debt, yet within pix years ho has made from benefits and fights nearly •5250,000.