The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-11
JACK In FINE FORM.
Most of the Sports Pick Demp-
sey for the Winner.
DENNY cosTIaAN SURE or 1T.
The Nonpareil Never Was In Better
Training-He Leaves Galveston for
New Orleans Tonight.

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 10.-TSpecial. THE
arena for the Dempsey Fitzsimmons prize
tight viii be finished Sunday. So far, all
the boxes have been sold, and $50 tickets
to the ampitheater. making the total
amount taken in $4,000. Club members
think all the seats viii be taken, in which
event the club will net some SIS, 600 They
viii undoubtedly arrange to put up
number of other big purses for fights
The majority of sporting men think
Dempsey will win. Corbett, while declar-
ing that he will say nothing about the
matter, is evidently believer in Fitz-
simmons. Dempsey. it is understood,
will leave Galveston Sunday night with a
number of his Texas admirers, reaching
here Tuesday, the day before the match.
There are no bets as yet. The friends of
Fitzsimmons have placed $3.50 at one of
the poolrooms here, to be wagered on
"Fitz' against s., 100 on Dempsey.
Word from both the Dempsey and Fltz-
simmons camps tonight shows that both
men are in good condition, and conndent
of the result of the coming tight on
Wednesday night.
Gus Tuthill, who will be one of Demp-
sey's seconds, McAuliffe being the other,
returned from the Dempsey camp, and
says Dempsey is in hne health and will
weigh about l50 pounds in the ring. Heis
now down to l47 pounds. The party will
leave Galveston on Monday night or Tues
day morning, accompanied by half-dozen
other lighters, who will appear at a re-
ception to be given by the Audubon Asso-
citation on Tuesday night.
Tuthill also says McAuliffe will next
week sign articles for a tight with Jimmy
Carroll before the Olympic Club for
$4,000 purse. 1t will take place about
Mardi Gras.
On Tuesday night the Audubon Club
will tender Dempsey reception, at which
he and McAuliffe viii spar four rounds,
and Mike Conley, Arthur Upham, the st.
Joe Kid; Professor Herman Brennan, the
heavyweight; Jack Sullivan, Al Burke,
Tom Monohan and others will spar
Dempsey's old second and faithful
trainer in many fight, Denny Costigan,
arrived here yesterday, and in his eyes
Dempsey will be the champion. He has
never seen Fitzsimmons, but he has seen
so many wonders brought against the
Nonpareii that he is not afraid of the re-
suit. The fact that Dempsey weighs more
than usual and is in flne trim shows that
he has been taking care of himself and is
in better condition than ever before.
Malachi Hogan, the well-known sporting
man of Chicago, has reserved several
boxes for his party, which arrives on Mon
day night. The delegation will reach here
on the nrst fast vestibuled train over the
Illinois Central railway, making an event
in railway as well as pugilistic history.
Cincinnati parties sent down $500 to
Lamoth's Turf Exchange to bet on Demp-
sey at odds of S to4 An offer was posted
on the board offering $500 to 500 on Demp-
sey, but found no takers.
William Murray, of the New York Ath-
letic Club, has arrived and viii be among
the spectators. The principal interest is
in the New York and Brooklyn deIega-
ton, headed by Phil Dwyer, Fred Coulon