The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-13

chief man. and has the advantage, more
over If the gymnasium of the Galveston
athletic association. His chief amusement
seems TO be ball, and those who have seen
him at the bat express the opinion that II
he hits Fitzsimmons as hard rs ne nits the
ball, it will soon be over with the Austria
liam.
Jack McAuliffe, champion lightweight,
will act as Dempsey's second, and Jimmie
Carroll. who also has an excellent light
weight record, viii back Fitzsimmons, and
there will be host of other pugilists on
hand. A large number OF them have WIN
tered down here, finding that the Gulf
states. in most of which there are no laws
against prizefghting, or at least against
glove contests. offer them the largest
purses Both of the men, therefore. will
have the best skilled advice, and il will be
battle of generalship such rs has not been
fought for many years. Ii will be the best
attended fight also, for arrangements have
already been made for special train that
will bring the large delegation from the
Pacific coast which expects to attend,
while special cars will come from nearly
every leading city in the country.
The betting has been brisk, generally at
even figures, or with slight odds for Demp-
sey, on the ground that he has Ii record
and Is known, whereas Fitzsimmons is an
unknown quantity, and therefore entitled
TO the odds.
The present fight has attracted attention
throughout the country, as an attempt to
elevate the prize ring. The money put up
is small fortune, ST., 900, and as il is I'M
derstood that there is to be big bet at the
ringside, the winner will pocket the net
undreamt of in the days of old, ought GER
tainly to encourage pugilism and bring
out the best men. The prizefght as con-
Quoted before the Olympic Club does away
with all the old-time secrecy. The pugilists
are not compelled to hide away, train in
secret, TO slip off to the appointed meeting
place before daybreak The crowd present
is not the audience 10 be seen about the
ring in old days of toughs, roughs and
criminals.
There is no danger of police interference,
or that partisans of the defeated men will
Chamber over the ropes to interfere in the
fight-this is no longer possible.
On the contrary, the battle takes place
in a comfortable club house in the center of
the city, laid off like theater, with num-
bered seats and private boxes. Around
the ring proper are forty proscenium boxes,
comfortably arranged, and each seating
six; back of these are the seats for the
general public. A large force of police
will be detailed to preserve order, and
around the ring, as an additional precau-
ton, is barbed wire fence TO prevent any
too enthusiastic supporter of Fitzsimmons
or Dempsey clambering over and interior
ing with the light. The prize ring is thus
renned. The audience no longer consists
of the toughs and roughs, as the price of
admission to this athletic theater. $40 to
SIC, will shut out the undesirable element.
The amphitheatre IN which the night
takes place will scat $40 persons in the re-
served seats and 4. $50 in the ordinary ones,
so it will be seen that if the club can sell
all its seats it ought to take in over $40, 900,
and have nice balance after paying the
prize money-and the club is quite con-
ndent that it will dispose of every seat,
having sold all, and rather more than all.
at its last fight between Andy Bowen
and Jimmy Carroll If this new style of
conducting the prize ring is success, it is
likely to prove very popular. Clubs will
gladly take hold of these meetings if they
can see so much money in sight; and their
management assures the success of these
meetings, gives them responsibility and
guarantees order. The prizefghters them
selves are interested, as the rewards of
their prowess are so much greater than
ever before. 1t is new departure in
pugilism to make it more like it was in the
days of the Olympic festivals than it has
been In the last two centuries.