The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-10-24

Sides over the turn affairs have taken.
The program now is to substitute Peter
Maher for FitZsimmOns i'll contest with
Corbett and another man to be found
will be depended on to entertain Steve
O'Donnell.
THE SITUATION.
Hot Springs, Ark, Oct. Il. Unless
Robert Fitzsimmons recounts, and
through his manager, Martin JULIAN, &C
cepts the extraordinary condition which
confrOnts the fight situation here, there
will be no contest between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons, unless it be an impromptu
one, shorn of purse offerings, of rules, of
referee and seconds, for Corbett vows
that unless FitZsimmOns acts the man
and accommodates himself to circumstan-
ces he will send him TO hospital the
first time he meets him, and he will go
quite a ways out of his route to meet
the attenuated Cornish man.
Today there was conference between
Dan Stuart, Joe Vendig and the fighters,
the latter by proxy, Brady representing
Corbett, Fitsimmons' alter ego being his
brother-in-law, Julian. Tomorrow the
ruling of Chancellor Leatherman is to
be taken before the supreme court by
the attorney general and the tribunal of
last appeal may consume several days in
handing down final hearing. In view
of this fact and anticipating favorable
decision, Dan Stuart called the parties
in interest together and stated the con-
ditionS.
Mr.. Stewart wanted a postponment until
November IL. He argued that even
though the court of final resort sustains
the decision of the chancellor, it would
take that long to restore confidence and
get the crowd to Hot Springs.
Brady, for COrbett, was willing. Ju-
liam was not Despite the fact that Cor
bett went into training a week before
his prospective opponent, Julian contend
ed that his man was too fine" and that
to train for several days after the original
time would initiate against his physical
condition. The proposition was then
made to have the men fight in private
for the main stake of $4,000 Il side
Here Stuart interjected an offer of an
added $4,000. Brady was again will
ling, but Julian demurred. He opined
that the club, if it pulled the fight off
on the 31st of October would have oo to
make good it's full promise of $41 900.
In all equity, in the face of the entange-
ments which have beset the path of
Stuart and Vendig, this can not be done.
Where month ago hundreds of eXcur-
sion parties were being organized for
the trip to to the fight, there are none
today. Stuart asked for time. Cor
bett has granted it. Fitzsimmons has
exacted his full pound of flesh. AS mat
tiers stand at this moment, to use the
words of Howard B. Hackett, the high
est pugilistic authority in America, Cor
bett wants to fight; Fitzsimmons does
not The fight is divided between Little
Rock, Hot Springs and Corpus Christi.
The local part of it is before the supreme
court at Little Rock, while the pugil-
istic is on long range between Corbett
in Hot Springs and Fitzsimmons
in Corpus Christi.
There is even more doubt from indica-
tons at this writing about an agreement
between the fighters than there is be-
tween the courts. What Lanky Bob is
yearning for is a chance to lick James
Corbett, and he is not inclined to think
that the new arrangement will afford that
beyond peradventure. He does not care
SO much about scientific points" as he
does about jabing Corbett. He wants Il
go under conditions which will abso-
lutely determine the superiority of the
two, in fighting parlance, which is the
best man.
Governor Clarke was expected to throw
a bomb today with sensational effect.
1t has been broadly intimated that he
has one loaded and primed ready to hurl
and the general opinion was that it would
be military missile. He has not yet
thrown it, however, and the indications
now are that he has concluded to be a
little more careful about handling it than
was supposed two days ago. He has
concluded to await a delivery from the
supreme court upon the review of Chan
cellor Leatherman's decision. With that
end in view he dispatched the attorney
general to this city yesterday morning
to get up the transcript in the case and
endeayor to get it before the supreme
court today. The attorneys i'll the case
with official stenOgraphers were engaged
on the transcript until Il late hour last
night, and Attorney Trustworthy and the
other attorneys went to Little Rock this
morning.
The concensus of opinion here is that
the supreme court will be obliged to con-
firm Chancellor Leatherman as to the
prize fight law upon the record of facts.
In that event the only course left to the
governor to prevent the mill will be to
call the legislature together and ask
that body to enact a law against such
affairs. Whether he will do this, hav-
ing declared that he would not, is mat
ter of speculation. The prevailing opin-
ion is that if that be the only remedy
he will adopt it. Few people can be-
lieve that he would adopt so dangerous
and revolutionary measure as calling out
the military in the face of the highest
judicial tribunal of the State, in case
that body should affirm Leatherman's de-
cision. Should he 30 to such extremes
it is not believed that the citizens of the
State would respond to his call and over
ride the constitution and the supreme
court, upon which their most sacred lib
critics depend.
It's no doubt COrbett and Fitzsimmons
will not fight in this city.
into the probability of the said Corbett
engaging in such a contest and to re-
strain, him, if such turned out to be the