St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-23
HALL HAS HACKERS.
Australians willing TO Risk $50
600 Upon Him.


600 Upon Him.
BALTIMORE. Md. March 22.-William
Muldoon, who arrived from san Fran
cisco with Jake Kilrain last night, will
tomorrow publish a challenge to Fitz-
simmons. the present champion middle
weight of the world. to meet Jim Hall,
the Australian middleweight. Null
doom says he is authorized by Joe
Thompson and Joe Harris, the Aus
tralian boOkmakeIs. to back Hall for
from 5000 to So, 600 Fitzsimmons is
now in this city, and said tonight that
he would probably accept. A pnrSe of
$4,000 for the fight has been offered by
the san Antonio. Texas. club.
A reporter tonight got FitZSimmOns'
opinion of his fellow cOuntryman. FitZ-
simmons gave it thus:
Hall should be ashamed of his con-
duct. He knows that | am under q con-
tract: but, as soon as that expires.
which will occur in q few weeks, in
tend to make it hot for ali of them 1t
IS very probable then that Hail will
turn tail and take the next boat for
Australia. [ have known Hall all nv
life. both OF us being raised in the same
place. For a long time he posed as
to work at the forge and exc
out a living for myself and wife. | dis
liked nOtOriety, and was averSe to going
into the ring. About two years ago /
grew desperate and arranged to fight
Hall. beat him in five rounds and was
given ten ShillingS for it. When [
picked uD my street clothes I found
that they had robbed me of every cent
had, including the studs in my shirt.
Fake tights were then all the 90. and
Tor a mere plttance scores of young fell
lows would allow Hall to stop them in
four or five rounds. | was a greenhorn
at the time and sadly in need of money.
We had fake fight, with the agree
menr that l was to fail in the Sixth
round. When the third round had
been finished Hall was so weak that he
could scarcely hold uD his hands. | be-
came disguised, but i'll order TO keep up
my part of the contract | took pity on
Hall and dropped to the floor at the be-
ginning of the next round. | can defeat
Hall to a Standstill with anything in nv
hands from pillow to Sledge ham
mer / then determined to leave
home and try my fortune in America.
L worked my passage over. fell
into good hands and made a match
with Mccarthy. This chance was
gOdsend. l defeated him easily. and
with the winnings paid off my old debts
and brought my wife to America. Then
followed my fight with Dempsey. which
made me a rich man. | never saw Jack
until l faced him in the ring. neither
have l seen him since. Dempsey made
a game night, showed wonderful cour-
age, but was outclassed We in Aus
tralia thought him invincible. | found
him an easy target.
My next fight continued FftZsim-
mons. will in all probability be with
Ted Pritchard, the present champion of
England, and who recently defeated
Jack Burke III the Pelican club at Lon
don. The Troy people offer $25, 900 for
match. and If Prltchard will accede
TO the terms he will find me eager for
the fray After the interview FitZ-
simmons wanted to find barbershop.
When told that the good people OF Balti-
more prohibited such doings as shaving
on Sunday. he remarked that it was
"blOody7 outrage.
CHICAGO, March 22.-The prospect of
fight between Hall and FftZslmmons
appears TO be dim. A dispatch from
Halls hackers intimated that Fitzsim-
mons forfeit posted here would be COW
cred by last Wednesday. Up to to-
night. however, nothing further has
been heard from Hail or his hackers.