Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-02-25

| the COney Island Club called the fight | eff. Burge. instead of going home in i disgrace as he shOuld have done, sneaked ! back in coward manner and tries to | shoulder all the blame on McAulifie. ! BuIge claims 10 have many friends in ! this cOu9try, but the course he is pur- 1 sung in running down McAuliffe, is not ! the p Oper way to hold them. The peO- , pie here were sorry to have the prop sed | battle fall through in tre maober 1t did, as they would have been more than | pleased 10 see the twO men fight, but it | wO1ld have to be on the level.
 The C1ney land Athletic reaped | rich harvest On their two htte fights ! Monday righ-. They only hung up i S5,0O0 ID purses, and there were fully ! six or seven thousand people present ! The tickets sold st 8 and s for general admission and reserved sea.s, while the ! private boxes Id at S2j each and there | are 68 O. them. So at the feast calcU a. | tioD, making a liberal allowance for dead | he }ds, the club must have cie1red ! from Sl5N)O 70 S20O00. There are 2O00 | reserved seats and tn re were but few of | them that were not Occuped. hile there
 Were not ov-r 300 os the $500 5 seats ! that remained vacant. The first fight | of twenty rou d, between Dolly Lyons | and Kid Hogan, was dull and unIntsr- | esting. Neither one d.d as much fight l ing iu the twenty rounds, as they used | t. do ID amateur c Tcles in three rounds. | The ether contest between Johnny | Griffin and Australian Billy Murphy | was a cyclone affair and was, anybody's | hatte during the first three rounds. | Murphy had C. .iffiu out in the third | round, but the call of t.me saved him. ] Murphy broke right hand durirg ! .he round and from that Ort was at the | mercy Oi Griffin. The fact is Murphy | was fighting out of his class, as bis best | weight, when in condition, 112 | pounds. He did not train for this fight | but merely tired to take on weight and | get strong. When they weighed lem at | o'clock the day of the fight. Griffin | tipped the scales at 122 pounds and
 6ur hy weighed 117li pounds. After | th- fight Griffin we ghsj 129 pounds and l Murphg but ll4 pounCe.
 Now since the baseball magnates have
 gotten the players in line they are
 sereneiy hapoy and are building air
 castles with he money they contem plate l co ming during the fast approaching season. The player have been forced l to stand the heaviest kind of a reduction
 ID their salaries or get out of tue bu5i-
 ness. One oy one they have been starved
 into submi sion until there are but few
 of them who are yet to be subdued
 H retOfore the bsllplayer swelled
 around during the winter in a p-Incely
 manner like retired merchant, on the
 advance money he was able 10 get out of
 the ccff IS of the club that employed
 him, but all thqt graft is cut off now.
 The magnates played their game good
 and strong aud the players have put in
 a had win CT on snow bal 8. How con-
 forting 1t must be for many of the boys,
 who have hockei their overco4ts, to
 nestle up close to the fire these days and
 th'nk back over he good O times when
 there was plenty of opposition and the
 great baaeball moguls gathered about
 them like flies around molas es jug
 and fairly turned their heads with the
 style in which they run up t5e prices
 and oaded them down with advan ce
 money. JUNE RANKIN.