Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-11
THE GREAT BATTLE.
Latest News About the Feeling in
New Orleans Regarding the
Championship Fight.
BOTH PARTIES VERY CONFIDENT.
The Friends of Fitzsimmons Want to Bet
the Contest Will Not Last
over Ten Rounds.
BOTH PARTIES VERY CONFIDENT.
HANLOS ELECTED LOCAL MANAGER.
An Interesting Challenge From Ftsburget to Pugiss
Elmer Grant
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPArcH.l


New ORLEANS, Jan. 1o.-Next Wednes-
day the Dempsey. Fitzsimmons fight comes
off here before the Olympic Club, and
already the city is beginning to look very
much as it did in the days just preceding
the Sullivan-Kilrainm match. A large num-
Der of sporting men have already arrived
and looked over the field. The battle
will be seen under the most favorable
circumstances. The match is held under
a city ordinance which alloys glove
fights, so that there is no chance of
police interference. A detail OF as police
will be present to preserve order. The fight
is fixed for P. NJ. There is, of course, not
the slightest chance OF now calculating its
length, but Fitzsimmons' friends are betting
that it will be a short fight and offering to
wager money that it does not last over ten
rounds.
The merits of the two men are still under
discussion with no conclusions reached.
Fitzsimmons is much the taller, and with
the longer reach; but his hips are narrow and
his legs thin, and there are many who think
they cannot carry him through long fight;
moreover, his wind is an unknown quantity, for
he has never had long fight and has gen.
orally knocked ou: his man in three or
four rounds. He has been training largely
for wind, walking and running a great deal
and has been at il two weeks longer than
Dempsey, and without interruption, whereas
the latter stopped his training to run up to
Dallas, and has been present at number of ex.
hinitions. The match will cost the club in all
about $50 coo. of which sl2C0O go for the prizes.
The building will hold S45.000, SO that the club
will make handsome thing out of 1t if 1t can
sell all the tickets. as it hopes to do.
Any profit 1t may make will be saved for
other purses for fist fights, purses so large as
10 attract the best talent in this country or
England. George Lablapche who gave Demp-
sey his only defeat, is on his way to New Or
leans, and says he will challenge the winner of
the Dempsey-F FitZsimmons fight. 1t is an open
secret that the Olympics long ago intended to
match the winner of the Dempsey-Fitzslmmons
fight against Ted PriJchard the English cham
pion. There are at least half dozen
iren here who would like to chal-
leEge the winner of next Wednesday S
fight. Among the matches proposed and for
which it is said the Olympics or other clubs
here are willing to put up good purses, arc be-
tween Jim CorbcuJ and Charlie Mitchell; be-
tween Jimmy Carroll, the lightweight, and
Jack McAuliffe; between Bowen and Nc
Auliffe and between FizsImmons and Ted
Pritchard.
Among the arrivals to witness the fight are
Bob Farrell, Larned Tracey, Steve Brodie and
Abe Levy. of New York. and Jimmie Carroll,
of Brooklyn. a telegram has been received
from Ed kearney advising that he would ar
rive on Sunday with carload of New Workers.