Omaha daily bee., 1891-01-11
THE BIG FIGHT OF THE AGE.
Interest in the Coming Contest Between
Dempsey ard Fis8immtns.
THE RECORD OF THESE FISTlc STARS.
Shannon on the RustIc-G Gossip OF the
Wheel Clubs--Among the ANA
teurs - Miscellaneous
Local Sports.

Probably the most notable prize fight OF the
decade will be that between Jack Dempsey,
the Non 0arcil, ana Bob Fitzsimmons, the big
Australian. The battle will come off before
the New Orleans Athletic club next Wed.
nesday night, and is for purse
of $1,000, the most money ever hung up
by any club in the world. AS there is 50
much speculation over the fight just now, q
word or two about the two men will surely
be found of interest. If Fitzsimmons had
-trr pounds OF beef 90 his spindle shanks he
would be Il fulliedged heavyweight From
the hips up he is a twelve-stonc man and
eighty years ago the famous English sport
Ing authority. Captain Barclay, said that
twelve-stOne man is big enough to fl ght any
thing human" Fitzsimmons has height and
reach Tar in excess of the average twelve.
stone mans, and while Dempsey will weigh
within four ,,ounds of his avordupos. he
Will look like a boy in front of a man when
he faces him in ring.
lie has fought twenty-five battles and
emerged the victor every time. His exploits
In this country, however, have been but few.
He finished Billy McCarty in California in
niue rounds, and wound up Arthur Upman
In ii,,o NGT Orleans in still shorter
smifh se ne with is arms siNiSoter 6SS lea. black c
those of gorilla, but twenty y-eght years of
age and undoubtedly tough nut to crack
AS to Jack Dempsey, every school boy knows
that he Is the prince of pugilists. He is sev
eral inches shorter than the Australian and
not nearly so long in reach, and fully four
years ms senior His record includes ii ftv-
three battles, all of them victories save one,
that with La Blanche one year ago last
August. This fight Dempsey undoubtedly
LOST by the VericSt chance blow ever deliv-
cred AS usual the sports haze already de-
clded the battle, but the trou ble is they are
not unanimous in their decisions. One set of
them are as sure as they are alive
that Jack Will never be in it, while another
Is Just as positive that the NOnpareil will
lick his man to dead certainty. As the
country pumpkin remarked: 'Its well every
feller don't think alike for if they did, I'd
never got Mary Ann for wife,
III all sports thought alike there would be
no matches and no fights have received a
number of letters from local sports inQuiring
whether | think it would be safe
TO lay little money on Dempsey. To these
1t is announced that The BEE is no tipstcr it
never advises man to bet q dollar on any
\ thing. 1t merely states its ideas, giving rea-
ons for the faith within it, leaving the re-
bllt 10 time. Though it is freely admitted
<Inat t1tZsimmons Is a rafting good man,
can see why bis admirers think that
ne Is going to have picnic with Dempsey.
Inc Australians actions show that he re-
CARDS Jack as the most dangerous antagonist
he ever had. There is one thing that can be
depended on and that is it will be fight to a
finish. When the men once enter the ring
there will be no leaving it until one is the
victor and the other victim.