Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28

| real business one. Mcbr1de mas some
hackers who believe him equal to any 12o
pound man in the country. They are pre-
pared to put up q good stake for him tt
fight either Van Heest, Sol Smith, Pearce
Siddons or anybody else in that class a
forfeit of $3.50 is up, and Mcbride is eager
to face any of the little fellows named.
Now Siddons, Pearce, Van Hest and So
Smith have all been declaring their anxiety
lately to face Dixon. The latter has stated
that win or lose against Skelly he will moi
fight any more for long time. 1t is use
less then for the men above named to try
and secure a contest with Dixon. Any one
of them can secure a match with Mcbride,
and depend upon it Mcbride is very likely
to defeat any one of them.
/ certainly think ne can defeat Van
Heest There is much to laugh about when
one reads of Heest's challenges to Dixon.
Mcbride is very anxious to meet him, and
| if Heest is willing to work for his desired
laurels there is no reason why he should de.
cline to meet Mcbride. The Coney Island
Club might do we'll to offer purse for the
pair to contend for.
Some More Prospective Battles
As the week of big battles approaches
there is more-and more talk of other con.
tests being arranged. Goddard, jackson,
side" to challenge the winner of the Sulli-
van and Corbett contest For the life OF
me cannot see why there should be any
serious thought about two of the above
named being matched to fight the winner OF
the big battle. If Corbett is a better man
than Sullivan it would be complete farce
to pit Goddard or Choynski against Corbett
and most assuredly they cannot defeat Sui
livan.
At best, Goddard and Choynski are rough
and-ready fighters. There is little or no
cleverness about them, and they are pre-
pared to have their jaws broken If they
think they can return the compliment to
their opponents. But it is different with
Peter jackson. He is a first-class man,
and it is q pity that Sullivan declines to
meet him. The only hope there is Tor Jack
son to contest tor the championship is for
Corbett to win. Should that unexpected
result come then there will certainly be a
great contest between Corbett and jackson,
and it would be characterized by tine heav-
lest betting seen for many years
And if Sullivan should win matters will
be in very unsatisfactory condition. We
will not know definitely who is the better
man between the two. There will always
be many people who will estimate Jackson
as Sullivan's superior, and, OF course, there
will be large number who will continue to
think that sullivan is the best man the
world has seen, just as they do now. One
thing emphatically maintain, and that is,
if Sullivan defeats. Corbett and declines to
fight jackson, Sullivan cannot any longer
be regarded as champion.
The EaII aud Priichard Battle.
The contest between Hall and Pritchard
came off a day or two sooner than expected.
and the result was somewhat of surprise;
not because the Englishman was beaten,
but because he was beaten in four rounds
Last week I declined to express an opin-
ion as TO the result of the battle, because
there was not sufficient publicly known
about Hall to guide me. True, he had
shown up we'll in Australia, but so had
Pritchard in England / also remarked
last Sunday that in Hall Pritchard would
meet different kind of man to any man he
had met before; Pritchard would have to
race a taller man and q clever man with
style of boxing that Pritchard had never
faced before.
1t was these features that were new to
Pritchard that defeated him. Only once
did the Englishman get close enough to his
tall opponent to have any effect, and then
Hall was knocked down. But that expert
guide, Charles Mitchell, kept Hall out of
Australian had to do was TO stop Pritchards
rushes, which he easily did, and soon
knocked the hitherto unbeaten man out.
Halls victory shows that England is en-
tirely out of it as far as heavyweight pugi-
lists are concerned. Hall is heavyweight,
and he is inferior TO the best heavy-weights
here and in Australia. He defeated Pritch-
ard easily, and the latter just as easily de-
feated Smith, the English heavyweight
champion.
The great question is: Who is the better
man between Hall and Fitzsimmons? Each
man has a strong following, and the Hall
stock has gone up considerably since he
beat Pritcnard. But there is a great differ.
snce between Fitzsimmons and Pritchard,
and doubtless Hall knows that There will
always be great controversy about the COM
oarative merits of the men until they have
net
1t is very likely that fhey will meet, but
lot as soon as FitZsimmons desires He
wants to fight Hall on September g. This
request, TO saw the least, is unreasonable,
md it is very improbable that Hall will |
lgree to any such date. Besides, Fitzsim-
mons demands that Hall weigh 15S pounds |
1t the ring side, and this is a condition that |
certainly Hall will not agree to on Septem- |
Der s. With the most careful training Hall |
will have difficulty in getting down to 15S |
pounds, and it is not to be expected that |
liter an ocean voyage he could get down to !
hat weight in few days.
1t may be that Fitzsimmons is making his |
challenge in order to advertise his show. |
The show business comes in again, you see |
At any rate, FitZsimmons never forgets to |
MENTION his show whenever he issues a |
hallenge. He has declared that he will de- |
eat Hall in four rounds. Let me go on record |
lere as saying that he will DO no such |
hing.
Local Football Prospects, |
Local football players continue to be |
ctive in preparing for the fall. The first to |
,e fairly before the public are the Associa- |
ion PLAYERS. During the last few days they |
lave secured the use of Exposition Park for |
he fall and winter, and this is really good |
business step Tor them to make. They will |
rave a team on the field practicing shortly, |
md it is expected that their team will |
,e better this year than it was last sea-
on.
The team will be thoroughly profession
i one. The PLAYERS claim they cannot af- !
ord to lose work and play for nothing. |
They speak what is true when thew say |
hat They will, therefore, demand guar
Intees to play outside the city and give
guarantees to other teams who come here.
The club is very wise in declaring itself ON
his point, as it prevents all misunderstand-
ngs. There are many amateurs, so-called,
Who are every bit as much professional as
he football players in question will be.
In another week or two the local Rugby |
cam will get into something like ship
hape and dates will be arranged. The
ooner the better.
Fast Time Among tn. Trotters
The trotting world is still discussing the
feat of Nancy Hanks in trotting 7
he mile in 2:07H. Although there have
zen many attempts to detract from the