St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-08
NOW, WHO WILL WIN?
Betting Men Cautiously Lay,
ing Wagers on the Fitz-
simmons-Hall Mia
Great Display Of Confidence
by the Friends of Both the
Australians.
Bantam Thinks FitZSim~
mons Will Maui His An
tagonist Out Of Shape.
" Macon" Says Sullivan AND
Slavin Will Meet in the
Ring in a Year.

cleS than any pugilistic event that ha
taken place III America since the Kilraiu
Sullivan affair at Rich's farm, Miss
sippi. The inserest is not confind to
the land of the stars and stripes either,
as almost daily inquiries are coming
from the clubs of London, and occa-
si0nal dispatches find their way to the
Minnesota capital from Sydney and
Melbourne. The betting men are
just getting ready to place their
loose change, and the indications are
that the Doodle will be put on the men
at about even money. ''Parson" Davies
ran down to Chicago from Beloit Mon
day. and assured everybody IN the
would pull Off the major portion
of that $4,000 without half try
ing. Yesterday at White Bear
Fitzsimmons said with great confidence
"All l want is to get Hall into the ring.
He is my meat. shall have him under
the ropes in dozen rounds. There is
apparently no lack of confidence on
either side, and this exhibition of cour-
age presages a great mill. OF the two
pugilis.s from the land of the Kangaro
Bantam" the welI-known New Or.
leans correspondent says:
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The rumor to the effect that JacA
Dempsey will Seconn Jim Hall against
Robert FitZSimmons at st. Paul, Mimi,
next Wednesday two weeks, has not
caused the representative from Timarue
any apparent alarm. When one recalls
the fact that these two Australian
fgeters know each other bet
ter than Dempsey knows Fitz-
simmons or his methods Of
dom in obtaining Jacks services as
coach, is not plain. 1t might be that
clever ParsOn Davies had secured Jack
TO help hall because of the good feeling
which the former enjoys from the Ameri-
cans, Of which the spectators
will entirely be made up. But
it is mistake to imagine that
because the American champion
middleweight fell into the cons0mme
when he tackled the red headed rooster
from Timarue, that the entire American
sporting community is dead nuts'
down on the latter. Not so; Fitzsim-
mons has, or should have, more friends
by his merciful handling of the
GA-NOHpdIGl jiluIl COuIu DUSSiUlY
dislike him for the mere fact
There is no one who has more kindly
regard for Americans or anything that
is United States than |, but | have
never been able to see American supe-
riority in the middleweights sticking
out against odds like FitzsimmonS
showed prior to meeting Dempsey. l
do not think that if Hall had house
full of DempSeyS attending him they
could make him whip his brother
countrymen unless it be in him, in
which case he could demonstrate his
ability without hardly any seconds at
all. The fact that Dempsey will be in
Halls corner will not save the latter
from the licking that is in store tor
him. He is about to go into
the hottest twenty-four feet of
enclosed territory he ever found
himself within, and the humping he is
going to get. if | am reckoning right, is
awful to contemplate. l do not think
that Dempsey was hit but two hard
thumps during his fight at the Olympic
club last January by his kind-hearted
opponent, but Hall will find no mercy at
the hands of the man he is supposed to
have followed from the AntipodeS to get
a fight out of.
Hall is longer in the reach than Fitz-
simmons, and is taller, too, by a small
margin, yet his 154 pounds, when ne
weighs that much in the ring at st. PauP
on July 90, will be almost all in
his lower parts-that is to say,
his legs and thighs are heavy
and his body not so stout; FitZ-
simmons. on the other hand, is just the
opposite in build. His ''spindles" weigh
little or nothing in comparison with his
shoulders and chest. His arms are long.
too, but heavier than his prospective
opponents. To my thinking, Hall, in
consequence of his build, will not be
able to punch for punch" with FitZ-
simmons, and | can see little else than
blackened eyes, broken noses and badly
damaged ribs awaiting jim Hall. L
know that the latter will get to FitZ-
simmons on head and body, which will
be great improvement upon the eXhi-
bitiOn of how Dempsey failed to land on
his long-armed New Zealand opponent.
The battle should not be long one. for
| think FitZSimmon'S wrath will not let
him 90 slow, and great scot! when the
latter gets to going fast Hall Will have
to travel or tumble.
Whatever may be the honest differ
enceS of opinion as to John l.. Sulli-
vans fistic abilities, there is none as to
his news value, says Macon" McCor-
mick. He is not only himself prolific
source of news, but he is also the cause
of news in others. Well, he is
on the high seas, and the next
that we shall hear of him will
be from Honolulu, where he tarries
day Oil his way to Australia.
~
The result of the bout has convinced
me that, while Sullivan has undoubt-
eddy gone back on his 1886 form, he is
still the premier pugilist of the world
at the QueenSberry game. Paddy Slavin,
since his arrival in London, declares
that he will never rest easy until he
faces Sullivan in ring. After he does,
he says, he will consent to retire from
am inclined to think that
he will. There is not the slightest
doubt i'll my mind that if both are alive
and we'll next winter they will fight.
After the talk that he made in Cali
fornia Sullivan must fight if asked, and
Slayin will surely ask him. AS
the Aurania, an hour before
he sailed: There's no trouble in
bringing two men together who are
willing to fight, and the Lord knows
Pm not only willing but anxious. l am
sure Sullivan means business, too" So
am |, especially after he was appraised
by telegraph of the showing Slavin
made against Kilrain. 1t is true that
he really had Jack done for in
the third round, as would have been
shown had the timing clock been in
working order, but the number of neck
and head blows he received from Kill
rain in the first two rounds demon
strated clearly to Sulliyan's friends
that Frank is not hard man
to land on, especially at the be-
ginning of fight, and we
all know that the man that Sullivan can
swipe ON the jaw at the outset of fight
has all the belligereney knocked out OF
him in short meter. When they do
meet, l venture the assertion that the