THE RING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2832, 25 February 1888, Page 3

THE RING.

What Sullivan Makes. Sullivan's Irish tour has turned out one of the biggest financial successes oil record, and considering the time that the slogger actually remained on the stage, lie was far and away the best-paid artiste in the world. Sullivan gave six exhibitions, commencing to a best-on-record house in the Leiuster Hall, on December 12, and for the twelve minutes he remained on the stage lie was paid £2lO. In Waterford, Cork and Limerick tho " gates" were all best on record, and this is all the more remarkable seeing how stiff were the prices. At Cork it was calculated, by one who reckoned tho blows received by or directed at Ashton, that Sullivan received £1 ys 11A each blow, and ho was again only ttjpve minutes on the stage. Tho yk second night in the Leiuster Hall * showed a falling off; but it was not by any means as groat as managers generally look out for on repeat nights. Ulster Hall.Belfast was packed tosufiication by one of the most enthusiastic audiences ever assembled, and the complete programme was gone through in one hour and a-lialf. During his entire trip Sullivan "showed" for seventy-two minutes, and put into his pocket-book the sum of nine hundred and forty-mm pounds. Besides all this, ho was the recipient of a William O'Brien Tullamore tweed suit, seventeen blackthorns, four jars ofwhiskey, and forty-five letters asking liini to give benefits for charitable institutions.