St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-25


Wrestlers Were on the Bill
Five Thousand People See the
Entertainments.
New YORK. Feb. 24.-It was known
that jim Corbett would not be at the
Ma liSon Square garden until nearly
midnight. because he had to appear III
Gentleman Jack" in Harlem, but
here was nevertheless q crowd OF l.OO0
people around the garden doors soon
after dark this evening, who wanted
10 see the champion fighter and give
aim one more greeting. This wish was
enhanced by the knowledge that
James j.. was to put up his hands
at the same time that Charley Mitchell
presented his, in a scene that was, ac-
cording to the homogeneous promise,
to be a reproduction of surroundings in
a certain recent event at Jacksonville.
The show had been arranged by the
New York World to augment that
papers free bread fund, and a fine pro-
gramme had been arranged. Boxing
bouts comprised the majority of the
numbers, but the strong men, such as
Attlla, who has given Corbett points
OH how t 0 get strong and stay so,
wreStlerS like Muldoon and Polher
and Hugh Leonard and Prot. B. A.
McFadden. of st. Louis, and broad
sword scrappers, Duncan c. Ross and
Prof. Zarlimi, were on he bill.
Among the others announced were
several ton-notchers in their respective
classes, including the Kangaroo, who
was down to spar Tom Tully, his duSky
Australian cOmpatriot, so there was no
easou why there should not have been
\ BIG CROWD.
Reason or not, the big, brilliantly
lighted arena held nearly 5000 persons
at S o'clock. OF course all the regular"
sports were there. Muldoon and Roeber
wreStled III GT1eo-Roman style for ten
minutes, without scoring a fall. The
next was catch-as-catch-can wrestling
between Hugh Leonard, instructor atthc
New York Athletic club, and Prot. b. A.
McFadden, St.LouiS. This bout appeared
to be or the level. Leonard was the
aggreSsor and the cleverer. He had the
St. Louis man alott several times, but
he could not accomplish a fall within
the ten-minute limit. A period of in
tense disgust followed when the middle
weights, Frank Craig. the Harlem coffee
cooler, and jim Foley. of the West Side
A. c., did three rounds in gymnasium
practice style.
Another display of friendliness was
made by Tommy Kelly, the Harlem
Spider, and Dolly Lyons, the 115-pound-
Ell, for two rounds, and the onlOokerS
made more remarks of disapproval.
Bill and Jack Slayin, brothers of
Frank Slavin, came on next, but they
hardly touched each other.
Two %105-pound New York lads, Jack
Levy and Casper Leon. went through
three tiresome rounds, and then the
Kangaroo did his act with FULLY. There
was laughter over this, if nothing else.
a good go was looked for when
Tommy Ryan, of Chicago, the champion
welterweight. and Billy Vernon, the
haverstraw lightweight, were an
nOunced. Both are clever men, and
they did some fair work while the set-to
lasted. Ryan had the better of the
touching in the total, but in justice to
Vernon it should be said that he spared
with
n BiOhEN THUMB.
Duncan Z. Ross. in clad. en-
gagged III a brOadsWord combat with F.
S. CuStellano, of Brooklyn. Prof. Ear
limi, the Italian, having failed to show
up. Ross easily scored five body blows
in succession. Then it was announced
that Dan Creed0n, the Australian mid
dleweight, could not come TO spar Billy
Mccarthy, also of Australia, because he
had an engagement to fight Ill Boston
next Tuesday night, and had caught a
cold.
George Dixon got a rousing reception
when he was introduced to spar Eddie
Loeber, OF Brooklyn. They created the
first rousing enthusiasm of the night.
LOeber looked scared and acted SINH
larry when he took the center, but
after a bit took courage anu hit the
featherweight champion of the world a
couple OF times, and the mob at once
lost its head. Loeber was cheereG
and told 10 go in i'll vigorous tones. And
he did try in the second round and got
more cheers. The third round was all
at mixing it up. -Four arms were mov-
Ing necessarily during all the three
minutes, and 5000 tongues urged the
Brooklyn boy on. Loeber did very we'll,
but when the round was over he was
breathing hard, while Dixon retired TO
his corner easily and smilinglY. But
the shouters were happy. T..
Young Critic, the Australian, was
Introduced as an opponent to Jerry
Barnett, of this city. Barnett did not
show up, and Critic offered to meet
anyone within six pounds of his weight.
He did not say what that weight was,
but he looked like a $50 pound man.
Then he SAID he would fight
y FEATHERWEIGHT
III the world for $1,000 a side. 1t should
be mentioned that in Australia feather
weight runs up to l4S pounds. George
Dixon was sitting by when Critic had
his say, but retired to the dressing room
without replying.
COrbett, in pink shirt, white knicker-
bockers and blue stockings, nowmounted
the stage, and the crowd received him
royalty but no more cordially than they
did Mitchell, who followed him. When
the menwere introduced they were again
cheered about equally, and John Kelly,
the jacksonville referee, and Snapper
Garrison, the t~lmekeeper, also came IN
for a whack OF the applause. A speech
was many times demanded from the
champion, but jim would only bow.
The TWO men spared four friendly
and short rounds, during which
Mitchell was scarcely able to
touch Corhett at close quar-
tiers: The Englishman was repeatedly
advised to get all AK" but things
went OF smoothly. Between the rounds
announced Burns yelled out that Wal
ter Campbell, the Philadelphia l3O-
pound champioe, had offered to spar
Young Critic, and would bet 800 that
he weighed no more than Critic. The
Australian said he had M mOney IN hot
1t was also announced that Fitzsim.
mons had challenged Peter jackson,
and that Parson Davies had replied that
he would match Joe Choynskl against
Fitzsimmons for $1,000, or against Den
yer" Ed Smith Tor the same amount.
After that the big house, which had
welded s., Geo to the end desired dis