The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-10-18
ORBETT- FITzSIMMONS.
WHAT LEADING THUGS THINKS
OF THEIR ANTICS.
1t Is the General Opinion That Both Par
ties Are Talking for Advertising
Purposes and Do Not
Want to Fight.

CHICAGO, Oct. 12.-The match be
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons wa
the principal subject of gossip las
night at all places where sporting mel
and those interested in boxing are il
the habit of gathering. The genera
opinion was that the match-what.
ever of sincerity there was behind it
had the advertising advantage to bt
derived from newspapers gossip prom
inently in view.
Parson Davies said: "The fight will
not take place in year, that is GER
tain. The Florida people cannot
bring the fight off in summer time.
They have to wait until favorable
season. That means sometime winter
after next"
Asked if he didn't think the whole
affair might be hippodrome for adj
vertising purposes, Mr.. Davies replied:
No, and would not say so if | did.
If had any views Of that kind !
would keep them tO myself. The pub
lie can't be fooled all the time. ALI
the newsboys are watching how affairs
are going and they are liable to have
some opinion to express on the SUBJ
ject."
When told that the arrangement
was for the Florida club to put the
entire $4,000 purse into the stake
holders hands to be divided, fight OF
no fight, Mr.. Davies declared: They
will never do it."
Referee George Siler said: II Sc.
riously doubt if the fight can be pulled
off in Florida. They have had so much
trouble in getting away with the Corr
bett-Mitchell fight that it looks very
strange to me that this fight would be
arranged for Florida"
Said Jim Hall: "Fitzsimmons does
not need to wait a year to get on q
fight. l will meet him in six, yes eight
weeks. would like to make the same
proposition to hi Il that he made to
Corbett-that is to fight for points, |
will get backing for $5000."
Billy Meyer: 'There is no doubt
that Fitzsimmons is dead anxious to
meet Corbett. Of cou Sc they are go
ing to get lot of advertising out of
this"
Sol Price: 1.-THE whole business is
to advertise their shows. Instead of
fighting and showing on the strength
of it, they intend to ask the public to
come and see them because they are
matched to fight.
Prof. G. o. Duplessis: 1T looks as
if they had the advertising end in
view. Corbet should win if they
meet"
OPINIONS FROM florida.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 12.-Un-
less there shall be radical change in
public opinion there will be no oppo
sition here to the fight between Cor
bett and Fitzsimmons. Mr.. Richard.
son, one of the principal hackers of the
Florida Athletic club, said that the
club would not embark in the scheme
if there was any chance of opposition
by the governor or hostile legislation
at Tallahassee next spring. Governor
Mitchell's failure to stop the Corbett =
Mitchell fight last winter will, it is
thought, deter him from any attempt
to interfere with the Corbett-Fitzsim~
mons fight when the tue comes, If it
ever does.
Some surprise is felt by the publica-
ton in The Citizen, paper which
took no stand in opposition to the
Corbett- Mitchell fight when IL was
pending, of an editorial article as fol-
lows: ALLOW us to remark right now
that the preliminaries for this so'called
glove contest may as well be aban-
doned at once. Jacksonville is not a
candidate for any further notoriety in
this line. The scientific glove contests,
as the parlance of the ring has it, are
nothing less than brutal prize figh s,
in which one of the principals
undertakes to punch the others head
off according to fixed rules. AS soon
as the legislature of next spring shall
have been organized and some mem
Der can get the attention of the
speaker we shall have an ironbound
anti. prize fight law that will cover
every phase of this subject. There is
no mistake about this, and Corbett
and Fitzsimmops may prepare to take
their show to some less civilized and
more lawless country"