San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-24
PRIZE FIGHT CARNIVAL.
THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS COMBAT.
Everard and Abbott TO Fight-The
Tournament to End With the
Great Battle Between Fitz-
simmons and Creedon.

other great tournament for this
week, and the sport is to begin to-
night with the Plimmer- Murphy
fight. Plimmer is the feather
weight who defeated Spider"
Kelly when he first came here from
England. He defeated Joe Nc
Grath, the Irish champion, and his
most famous battle was with
George Dixon, whom he practically
bested in four rounds. Johnny
Murphy, private boxing instruc-
tor at Harvard, has met Dixon, Cal
Mccarthy, and others as well
known, and demonstrated that he
had splendid fighting capacity.
To morrow Stanton Abbott and
Jack Everhardt meet at 1873 pounds,
the American lightweight limit.
Abbott is English champion in his
class, and Everhardt has stood up
against excellent men here. He
defeated Abbott two months ago,
but claim was set up that the
American had repeatedly fouled
the Englishman.
But the great battle of the tour
nament is that Of the middle
weights FitZSimmons and Creedon.
The record of Bob Fitzsimmons is
well known. In this country he
has never yet met defeat, and such
men as Hall, Maher, Dempsey and
others as well-known have gone
down before him. Creedon has
conquered Hall, Costello and Alex
Greggains.
An excellent authority gives
this as the difference between the
two men, showing that the odds
should be largely with Fitzsim-
mons. "The lanky Australian has
several pronounced advantages
| over his more stocky, sturdy coun-
tryman. For instance, his exact
height is full 5 feet III inches--in
fact nearer feet III inches than 5
feet III while Creedon measures
5 feet 81, a difference of three
inches In favor of Fitzsimmons.
AS to the advantage in reach, the
Creedon men concede slightly the
best of it to Fitz, but he will not
have as much advantage as some
of his admirers think, for Creedon
is deceptive in that particular, and
in fighting position throws him.
self into such shape as to give him
a wide sweep with his left and a
chance to land short but effective
blows with the right. In weight
there will be no advantage on
either side. If any, it will be in
Creedon's favor. Creedon can be
at the weight in ring costume
strong as lion and fit to fight for
a kingdom. do not know about
Fitz. That he is freak all lovers
of the sport know, and it may be
that he can drop to 15S pounds in
ring costume, which, means 1861
without costume thrown in, at the
ring side, and put up great fight;
but it is questionable, and upon
his ability to reach the weight
much depends in the approaching
battle. 1t has been said that he is
far shiftier and far cleverer than
Creedon, but this is not true. Cree
don is wonder on his feet, and
with his hands he is every bit as
strong as Fitzsimmons, if not
stronger, and if it comes to
give and take-FitZ will quickly
| find himself in imminent danger"
"The gentlemen connected with
the Olympic Athletic Club, of
Nom, Or1oopc ora Xatoranc in tba
blu STRESS. They wou' d not hang up
the purse of $4,000 in order to pres
ent it to FitZsimmons or to any
other boxer. They certainly eX-
pect battle royal, or they would
not give that much money to
secure the services of Fitz and
Creedon. That is what l expect to
see, and while / know FitZsim-
mons would be a strong favorite,
and while i know bettors on form
will naturally pick him to win, yet
l would not be paralyzed with sur
prise were Creedon to become
champion middleweight Of the
weight of the world on the night
of September 26, next. Crackers
will please recollect that this is
not a prediction that Creedon will
win. On the contrary, it is an ad-
mission that the majority of fol-
lowers of the ring will look upon
Fitzsimmons as the victor, while
the unreasonable will shake their
heads and sagely remark that Cree
don is whipped before he enters
the ring. 1 do not go with either
class. No man would travel
thousand miles to witness con-
test, the result of which was a
foregone conclusion. 1t would be