OPINIONS OF SLADE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1166, 27 October 1883, Page 3

OPINIONS OF SLADE.

The New York Herald ot August, Bth contains the following aneut the Su!li-van-Slade match :-—The achievements of the previous night afforded food for reflection to the wise men of fisticdoin. Why had Slade, big as he was, been knocked out of time in three rounds, and by what method had he been led to hope for success in his prospective matches ? The whole matter was explained to a reporter by Harry Montague, his manager. 'The size of it is this,' he said, ' Slade is a man wonder fully endowed by nature. He has had little art, and seems in no hurry to acquire it. But were he to act as he was told, he would develop marvellously. Ho has been an incubus on our hands. Ho is lazy. That's the whole trouble. He won't train. I have tinio and again urged him to walk, to ride, to do some--1 thing to harden his muscles and put I him in shape for the ordeal he had to pass through, but he never minded me. He was utterly heedless of my advice. Sometimes he swam. These South Sea Islanders seem to think water their element just as much as land, and they freely take to it. He would swim miles, but he would not walk them. The result was he came before the public in a condition far inferior to his opponent.' ' And was fairly licked,' supplemented Jem Mace. ' "Yes, he was,' said Harry Montague. 'Wo make no bones about it. Our man was beaten out and out, throughout the whole exhibition, Mr Sullivan acted like a gentleman, He took no undue advantage, and his conduct towards his opponent was kindly whenever opportunity offered. His backer is Mr Mace. He was not a bit startled. On the contrary, he was agreeably surprised. He believed Slade was game. When he saw him pick himself up after Sullivan's sledge-hammer blows, and plant himself on the platform to get more punishment, he felt that he was right. I will admit that I did not have so much hope. When I saw Slade landed, Mace asked me what I thought of himl ' That Newfoundland pup?' said I. 'The same,' said he, ' and I intend to make a dog of him.' 'He has done so. Slade for the first time in his life has received a lesson.'