St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-25
TO Be A GREAT DAY.
The Derby and Australian
Encounter Both on
July %.
st. Paul to Have an Athletic
Club That Will Lead the
West.
No Signs Of Weakening Shown
in the Cornice Makers
Strike.
Last Night Very Gay With
Last Night Very Gay With
the Sound Of Music and
the Dance.

Derby Day, which will fall on July %
next, will be great day for st. Paul,
and incidentally for Minneapolis and
the Northwest. 1t is doubtful if any city
in the world ever held such an array of
sporting talent as will be gathered in
the SANITY City on that day. There
will be two great events, so arranged as
to present their attractions consecu-
tiyely-the Derby for the day and the
Fitzsimmons-H Hall fight to a finish at
night. The Derby will be run by about
ten of the crack three-year-olds of the
country for prize tempting enough for
the best, and is of itself sufficient to
draw to St. Paul an immense outpouring
of people. 1t will open the running season
of the Twin City Jockey club, now reeog-
nized everywhere as one of the most
attractive, most successful and best
| managed turf association of the coun-
| try. When to this is added fiStlc en-
counter that for interest cannot be par
alleled by any ring event in the world,
the result is dual sporting attraction
that will turn the eyes of the world to
! st. Paul for that day at least. Secre-
tary Shaw, when he went to Chicago,
said he would bring the fight to ST.
Paul, and has been as good as his word.
| He returned yesterday flushed with sue
cess. Said he:
Il have got the star attraction for the
| Twin Cities in the contract for the Hall
and FitZsimmonS; contest. Thousands
| from all parts of America and Canada
will come here to witness i'll could
| have placed hundreds of tickets in
| Chicago the day we signed articles. l
am not decided which city would be
| best for the contest to come Off in, but
am going to get propositions from each
| one and will accept the most favorable.
| OF the men | am most pleased with
| Hail. He is an inch and half taller
| than the Kangaroo, and is all in all a
remarkable man."
The arrangements for the FitZSim-
| monS-Hall fight for st. Paul means a
new era for sporting aventS in this city,
and the conSummatiOn of plan which
has for some time been under considera-
ton. The plan is nothing less than the
organization of an athletic club on a
scale that will completely overshadow
anything of similar character that has
ever been attempted in the Northwest.
| Associated in the plan are score of
men, whose standing would insure not
only the character, but the per
manency of the undertaking. 1t
is proposed to lease ground in the
center of the city-prObaOly be-
tween Wabasha and jackson, and not
further north than Seventh strickland
erect thereon a commOdious and COM
| pletely equipped athletic club house, to
be conducted after the best approved
methods of the successful clubs of the
East and of the Pacific coast. The
membership will be limited. and all Oh
jectionable elements will be rigidly eX-
Guided. The plans have not assumed
absolute shape, but the club has been
determined upon. 1t is understood Gov.
Merriam will be foremost in the organ
iZation. and that Secretary Frank Shaw
who has so literally stood behind the
Twin City Jockey club, will back the
new venture with cash contribution
up INTO the thousands. The clut
plan has been thoroughly, though
quietly, discussed, and everything but
the minor details practically agreed
upon. The officers and directors viii
be all prominent business men, and the
club managed and handled upon correc
business principles. When the proper
time comes the GLOBE will give all tint
details.
1t is possible the new club house can
not be arranged in season for the Fitz
simmons Hall fight, which, it is reason
able to presume, will occur in st. Paul
but temporary arrangement is nov
being formulated which will provide
for suitable theater for that event il
an auditorium capable Of coDtainiD!
10000 people and giving each OF them
full view of the stage.