The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-10
LAYING THE WAGERS
Nm the Great Fitzsimmons-Hall
Prize Fight at st. Paul.
TIE DISPLAY OF CONFIDENCE
r,D,bited on Both sides--"Bantam"
thinks FItzsimmons VIII Win
without TrOuble-"AraCOn" Says
Sullivan and slavin VIII Meet
League and Association Ball Games,
Races, Etc.

fsht to finish between AopeEs fAl1
'in'mons and James Hall, which is to
n,rnr in St. Paul a week from next
Wednesday is causing more comment
4, .narripg circles than any pugilistic
.rsat that has taken place in America
,rcc the Kilrain.sulliva4 affair. AL
most daily inquiries are coming from
Mo clubs Of London, and occasional dis
MATCHES find their way TO the Minnesota
r.o,tal IRON Sydney and Melbourne.
The betting men are just getting ready
n placc their loose change, and the in
Jic.,,ions are that the Doodle will be put
an the men at about even money. There
= onnarentlv no lack Of confidence on
ai,Iisy eide and this exhibition OF cour-
s sss messages a great mill. OF the two
nrsSdIjsts from the land Of the kangaroo
EBantam." the well-known New Or
leans correspondent, says;
Tho rnlnor to the effect that Jack
Dsmnsey will second Jim Hall against
PSbart i;itzsimmons at st. Paul, Mimi,
rsyt Wednesday week, has not caused
,be commemorative from Timarue any
.n r alarm. When one recalls the
i5rt that these two Australian fighters
know each other better than Dempsey
lnows Fitzsimmons or his methods OF
Taulinr the necessity, or even the wis
j,m n obtaining Jacks services as
T,rh Is not plain. 1t might be that
Trvcr parson Davies had secured Jack
tohclp Hall because OF the good feeling
which the former enjoys from the
AMERICANS, OF which the spectators will
gtirely bo made up. But It is mis-
nke to imagine that because the Ameri-
an champion middleweight fell into
Me- eonsomme when he tackled the red
headed rooster from Timarne, that the
trtire sporting community is dead
p1ts" down on the latter.
Not SO: Fitzsimmons has, or
should have more friends by
hs merciiul handling OF the ex-Non-
pireil than could possibly dislike him
brthe mere TACT that he won from our
home man. There is no one who has
more kindly regard for Americans or
ANYTHING that is United States than |,
bT, have never been able to see Amer
lean superiority in the middleweights
sticking out against odds like Fitzsim-
mons SHOWED prior to meeting Dempsey.
! DO not think that II Hall had a house
fol OF Dompseys attending him they
could make him whip his brother Coun-
TRUMAN unless it be in him, in which
case he could demonstrate his ability
without hardly any seconds at all. The
iaA that Dempsey will be in Halls cor
ler will not save the latter from the
licking that is in store for him. He is
about to 20 into the hottest twenty-four
let Of enclosed territory he ever found
himself within, and the humping he is
going to get, ii am reckoning right, is
awful to contemplate. l do not think
that Dempsey was hit but two hard
humps during his fight at the Olympic
tGb last January by his kind-hearted
opponent, but Hall will find no mercy
allie hands Of tho man he is supposed
iohayc followed from the Antipodes to
GET fight out OF.
Hall is longer in the reach than Fitz-
simmons, and is taller, too, by a small
aarla, yet his l54 pounds, when he
weighs that much in the ring at st.
PaalOD July %, will be almost all in
bis lower parts-that is to say, his legs
and thighs are heavy and mis- body not
50 stout; Fitzsimmons, on the other
hand, is just the opposite in build. His
"'radles' weigh little or nothing in
comparison with his shoulders and
Chest. His arms are long, too, but
hesr!cFthan his prospective opponents.
Tony thinking, Hall, in consequence
Of bis build, will not be able to "punch
Tor punch with Fitzsimmons, and l
can see little else but blackened eyes,
broken noses and badly damaged ribs
awaiting Jim Hall. l know that the
laiter will get to Fitzsimmons on head
aud body, which will be great i'm
pFoyement upon the exhibition OF how
Dempsey failed to land on his long
armed New Zealand opponent. The
GatI!e should not be a long one, for l
iihlAE Fltzsimmons wrath will not let
hilh 20 slow, aud great scott when the
after gets 10 going fast Hall will have
Nimve or tumble.
Whatever may be the honest differ
eHces 0ioplnion rs to John L. Sullivan's
ls'ic abilities, there is none as to his
news value, says Macon" Mccormick.
Nc Is not only himself prolific source
news, but he is also the cause OF news
u Others. Well, he is on the high seas,
~ !he next that We shall hear OF him
WIZ be from Honolulu, where he tarries
alay on his way to Australia.
me result Of the bout has convinced
ny mat while Sullivan has undoubt-
s '.T gone back on his 1856 form, he is
S.i The premier pugilist OF the world
We QueeGsberry game. Paddy Slayin,
s l MS arrival in London, declares
Sa ne will never rest easy until he
~ sullivan in ring. After he does,
.eEays' he will consent to retire from
'sASm. am inclined to think that
= VIII. There is not the slightest
~5oI N my mind that il both are alive
tla vel next winter they will fight.
lllcF the talk that he made in Cali
anna sullivan must fight ii asked, and
S''la viii surely Rsk him. As
saia to me on the deck OF
Se ;Aurania, an hour before
T. sailed: There's no trouble in
%;insln; two men together who are
rmnng TO fight, and the Lord knows
nv, ,m mol only willing but anxious. lam
y, ,se sullivan means business, too" So
I Sa ESPECIALLY after he was appraised
telegraph Of the showing Slayin
I.s YEA against Kilrain. 1t is true that
sn ,vI'ly had Jack done for in the third
S a' ~ as would have been shown had
S St nIlnlns Clock been in working order,
SSi The number Of neck and hcad bloWs
V Received from Kilrain in tho first two
r ,Sa9lS demonstrated clearly to Sulli.
S aa friends that Frank is not hard
-H 70 land on, especiallv nj tba 'hnoin,