Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-04
THE BIG EVENT.
The Sullivan-corbett Fight at
New Orleans.
HOW THE MEN ARE TRAINED.
A Hard Lie 10 Bring Man to His Best Con-
dlllon- Sullivan a Stubborn Man
10 Train, and Hard to
Manage.

Special TO the Gazette
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 3,-The big
pngilistic carnival Of the Olympic Club
begins tomorrow night, and for three
DAYS New Orleans will give itself over
wholly and solely to pugilism. by
Wednesday the great tournament at
New Orleans--a variation on that Mt
Ashby de 10 Zoucae, which Sir Walter
Scott 30 POLITICALLY and rapturOusly de-
scribes but tho same in principlc-will
be decided and the victorious crowned
and rewarded. The heavy, light and
feather weight championship OF Amer
lea, will be settled, and we
will know In L. II. parlance, who
are "the best mon In America; and
some millions Of dollars, which cnthus-
lasts In "the manly art OF sell-deience'
have wagore1 on their respective fay-
critics will have changed hands. IL will
be determined, also, whether il
Is possible to make the prize ring as
refined and respectable as the Olympic
Club thinks II can be made, for dozen
other clubs arc awaiting the expert
ment here, and will follow In the foot
steps OF the Olympic II the fights go OFT
well, without scandal Of any kind, and
leave a handsome money balance be-
hind.
THE PREPARATION,
Tho Olympics have awakened 20 tho
fact that their pugilistic carnival is Of
greater magnitude than they imagined.
They thought thoy would have every
thing in order IN a month; but they
have got through with great difficulty.
To put their arena In condition for
the fight cost more and took n longer
time than they expected. The roof and
the galleries had 10 be rebuilt; and this
rough work was not completed until
Wednesday. The carpenters arc still
Engaged In the arena, arranging the
decorations within and II will bo u close
grnze 70 get everything in frstc'ass
order by tomorrow. The electric clock
which was to ring out the seconds, to
nnll the pugilists TO their rounds, and
announces when one Of them was knock
ed out cnrld not be completed in time,
and the club will have to depend on the
old-style electric gong, which has FREE
quently given rise TO confusion In the
past.
All the rest OF the programme, how
over, will be fully carried out. Tho club
has some %, 900 tickets yet to dispose Of,
and as a majority OF them will be sold
to-day and tomorrow no less than five
ticket Offices have been opened IN con-
tral localities In the city. For the con
venicnce of the visiting journalists, who
are already here to the number OF
couple Of hundred with probably as
many more 10 arrive IN the next two
days, two new bureaus have been estab-
lishod, whore all the information tho
club possesses about the pugilists, their
locations, condition, standing, etc, is
furnished. Tho newspaper men have
established a third news bureau Of their
own IN the rOtuuda Of tho st. Charles
Hotel whore thoy congregato in the af-
ternoon and talk prize ring and nothing
else. News, gossip, scandal-nothing
escapes them.
NOT IN A HURRY.
II Is the presence OF 30 many news
paper mon In New Orleans which has
mudo the pugilists hesitate about COM
Ing hero Ia advance of the fight. Never
have they boon 80 late In arrlW ny. Nc
Auliiio and Ssally will not como until
tomorrow, and McAuliue fights the
Same oyoning. Corbett arranged TO ar
rive Tuesday morning, but the club has
begged him 10 rcnoh here day earlier
as there is u big crowd with him who
VIII be prevented from attending tho
II tho train waits until Tuesday.
In former affairs tho pugilists have
always boon on hand week on 20 in ntl-
vance OF their appearance in tho ring,
to survey the field aud accustom them
selves 10 the change In climate, and
the Olympic club has urged this early
arrival because IL enabled "the lighting
committee to sec the men and learn
whether they were 'tlth and In good
condition. sullivan, however, who has
fought here twice before, once In sum
nor, set the example OF not coming
early. He ridiculos the idea of accli-
mati2ation, and thinks a pugilist who
comes down here and fights ut once Is
In bottor condition than one who trains
hore not so likely to bo out OF order.
All he wants Is couple of DAYS to get
oYer the fatigue OF railroad travel.
Formerly some little Inconvenience
was suffered from tho pugilists
picking up weight ON their way down
horc, Aitor u man has trained down
1t is astonishing how everything goes
TO fat the moment he stops his training,
Two days OF rest win easily add five
pounds TO his welght-aud these live
pounds are Just So much handirap to
him in tho ring, This difficulty, how
ever, has boon obyiated by tho fitting
up OF training quarters on the cars.
Sullivan, Corbett and Myer arc provid-
ca with everything they need on their
trip here. Their private coaches on
special prize fight trains arc rs coinfort-
able and grand as any railroad inagnate
IN the country can b0ast Of They have
their bathrooms, their reception rooms,
their gymnasiums, htted up with every
appliance for trimming, 20 that whom
thoy step from the cars they will be In
perfect condition 70 enter the ring al
once,
10 AVOID HERO WORSHIP.
II Is probable that the pugillsts STAY
away from here, notwithstanding ito
Olmpic clubs request 10 the contrary.
50 as to escape the correspondents and
tho excessive and somewhat Oppressive
adulation Of the mob From the day
tho pugilist arrives until the aght
comes oil he is a hero decidedly too
much OF a hero. When sullivan waa
bore before for tho Kilraln fight, there
was, night and day, q crowd OF from
1000 10 400 In front OF his boarding
house on Rampant street, SO obstruot-
lng passage that the police had TO in
tteriere and frequently disperse them.
u was impossible for him to take a
walk or an airing in the evening, He