Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-12-31
SPORTING LETTER.
Goddard Says Fitzsimmons is
 Much 0Verrated.
A Match between 300 Founders:
 Yaching Circles.
NEW YORK, Dec. IS, 1872.

I
 Joe. Gooddard has something to say about the S40,000 purse. He too has whipped Peter Maher, the much over- rated Irish champion and in much less time than it took Bob F'itzsimmons to do that little job, and therefore he feels that he has a perfect right to speak his mlnd freely. He thinks 1t is an outrage that a S40,0e0 purse should be hung up for such duffers as Hall and Fitzsim~ mons. Ot the two he considers Fitz- simmons t6e better man, but even ! then he does net consider hIm a fighter, | GOdd8rd claims to have a sung bank account of his own and that be does not need a packer, but will back his assertions with his own hard earned money. To prove that Fitz IS not the great man ke is cracked up to be God 1 dard stands ready to bet S5,O0O that he can knock lanky Bsb out in five rounds. Whether Goddard will be able to ac- complish this feat in so short a space of time is a problem yet to be solved, but 1 am rather inclined to think he would lose bis 5000 There is no question as to Goddards ability to do Fitz in a finish fight, but for five rounds Fitz should be able to keep out of Goddards way, for as he is slowerithan an ice cart, Goddard would have to do all the fighting and hn .. knows bis book too well to ever let God dard get him in close quarters. A fight between those two would be like an elephant chasing a deer. Goddard IS about as clumsy a man as ever set foot in prize ring and the only reason he does not get tangled up with him- self IS because be Is slower tbau a snail. | Of course he is an unmerciful hitter wbeu he lands and the man IS a lunatic who will attempt to stand up in front of him and give and take. He has not got the slightest idea of science, however, and depends entirely on his brute strength. He IS glutton at taking punishment
 
 minutes rest between rounds, but along side of good quick man like Jim Cor. bett he would be worse than passenger car on the back of freight train in comparison to limited express train. Goddard has high aspirations and is willing to fight any man in the world, but if he ever fights Corbett he will be kept guessing in a pretty lively manner. The Coney Island Athletic Club. which as yet IS not a year old has cleared
 about S1O0C0O. The managers fully
 realize the fact now that there is money ID prize fighting and the better the men the more they will make. They have sized up the public and know just what 1t will stand. Two entertainments a month are not too many, so they will hold their next pugilistic entertain ment Wednesday, evening Dec. 2S. There will be three good fights on that occasion, for independent of the finish fight bstveen Btlly Trimmer, champion bnDte'n of tho world, and Joe McGrath, the 11p.p pssEnd cEarapfon of Ireland,
 there viA ee a tc.s 2und ''<6r bst~een
 Connie Sulfivans ot zizizI tzi<. and HuRh.| Boyle, Of Elizabeth. and 1l5Q so eiokk q round contest between lack M6<3 <3usSft e Boston, and Billy Reedham, of Ph{Io- delpla- The free flow of dollars into the cotfers of the COney Island Athletic Club has had the desIred effect of whet- tlng up their appetite5 for more, So they are now constantly on the hustle for the best men that can be found. Billy Baxter, the English featherWaight h. f N-h T,L ~
 S0,OtO purse and S200 has been forward GU to him for expenses to this country. They will doubtless fight ln February.
 The arrlva! of Burge in thls city yes- terday caused no little sensasi siop. Burpe Is the champion light weight or Eng land and he came over to thIs country for the purpose of meeting Jack Me Aulltfe, light weight champion of Amer. ica. The sensation was not caused through the object of his visit, but for he fact that the pair are wanted by the Crescent City Club of New Orleans for Mard Gras week and they gre also wanted by the COney Island Athletic Club. Some very lively bidding is ex- pected. It was through the reckless ! bidding of these two rival clubs that the purse Hall and FltzsImmOns battle for | reached the enormous amount of S4O.OOO | McAulitfe and Burge will be a great ! drawing csrd and neither club can af- | ford to give away to the other, unless it | be the Crascents. They have had one enormous purse saddied uT on them and | they can least afford a reI @ itiCn. The | COney Islanders lost no time Tn commu- l nicating with Jack McAUliffe, who ans wered that he was willing to fight Burge in March for the purse offered by the 1 New Orleans people. The Islanders l do not intend letting this match slip | through ther fingers. They have al- |