The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-07
READY FOR THE BIG FIGHTS
Hall and Fitzsimmons in Good C0nGi.
tion for Wednesday Nights Mill.
Daily and Gibbons TO Meet in the Crescent
Club Ring this Evening-The Latter and
Hall Now Fevorites in the Betting.

NEW ORLEANS, March 6-Gibbons and
DAILY will come over from Bay ST. Louis
tomorrow morning for their fight before
the Crescent City Club in the evening.
Both men are reported to be in the best
possible condition and each very confident
of success. Daily has got down to weight.
and Is taking light exercise only. Jim Hall
and his party arrived here tonight at 1890.
twelve hours behind schedule time. Hall
claims to feel no bad effects of the trip,
and expresses confidence in his ability to
whip Fitzsimmons.
A dispatch from Bay st. Louis says the
residents of that section of the South are
nearly wild over the contest between Hall
and Fltzsimmons. which will take place on
Wednesday night. Mostly ell of their
sympathy and money are for Fit zsimmons.
Last week q kind lady in New York made
his fighting clothes. His trunks will be of
wine-cOlOred silk, the same color as those
he wore when he met Jack Dempsey and
Peter Maher. His belt will be
q % the stars s and nd stripes OT1ss
eyed son Charley, who will be costumed
in black velvet. Fitz laughinGly says that
IT Hall licks him he will 20 to the front
and say: Gentlemen, have fought once
too often. but | am glad | am licked by a
there seems to be some doubt about his
having experienced men In his corner. II
will have to do the fighting" he says. land
no one knows how to do il better than my
self" He was told that some people had
an idea that he could not take pun
ishment. His reply to this was: There
are big lot of stiffs who think
that before man can become great
boxer he must stand up and get beaten half
to death. Now. my idea is TO give and TO
get away from punishment. like to avoid
anything like good punch. Hall will get
lick for every one he gives me. l am GO
ing TO be with him at every stage of the
game. and # / can help myself his gloves
to-day how he intended to fight; whether
he would rush or make Corbett and
Mitchell affair by getting ont of the way
for the first few rounds. He said he could
not tell until he got into the ring.
When - train carryin Jim Hall passed
through Bay st. Louis there was very
large crowd in waiting eager to see Hall.
but he was being rubbed down at the time
and the only strangers allowed to see him
were Alex. Greggans and Miss Avery. a
and other prominent sporting men who
came on from the East on the Hall train
will back Jim against FitzsimmOns to the
full extent of the large bank rolls they
6to CoIiyiuk Will sncus DlCA ROACH put
up several Thousand dollars on Hall before
leaving New York, and he Kelly and Cald-
well took the long journey principally to
reach q point where there were plenty of
FitzsimmOns men and they could get the
rest of their money on Hall. who has many
from the vicinity of New York.
Fitlsimmons will leave Bay st. Louis
Wednesday morning He weighs 166
pounds, and will enter the ring at l65 Hall
has picked MP during his trip and weighs
115. He Will weigh about 40 in the ring
Hall was taken TO Mitchells room in the
81. Charles Hotel, given supper and put to
bed. Mitchell will care for him from
now on. HalPs arrival has had tendency
to make him q favorite in the betting, espe-
night, offers to bet $4,000 on him. Dave
Gideon. of New York. bet 81. 600 to $500 on
Gibbons to-day. and he has become strong
fayOrite in his match.