The San Francisco call., 1895-11-03
Corbett and Fitzsimmons to Be
Released on Condition of
Departing.
GREAT DISGUST AT THE FIzzLE.
No Longer Do the Pugilists Train, and
They Even Cease to Talk for
Publication.


thing is off. The Governor wins. There
will be no fight in Arkansas, nor will there
be one anywhere else, for that matter, un-
less the complexion of affairs undergoes a
total and altogether unexpected change
within few hours. The pugilists have
made an unconditional surrender, and the
long-looked-for battle for the champion
ship of the world passes into history as
izzle without a redeeming feature. The
would be principals are again separated by
several miles of Arkansas territory.
Corbett returned to Hot Springs this
afternoon, presumably to make arrange
ments for his journey eastward, while
FitZsimmons remains in Little Rock, pet
ting his tame lion and preparing for his
athletic show at Glenwood Park Monday
night.
The ring followers who journeyed from
various parts of the country to Hot Springs
and from there to Little Rock have all de-
parted. So have majority of the new
papermen. The bewhiskered Arkansans
who were attracted to the capital by the
presence of the two renowned sloggers
have returned to their cotton gins and
corncribs, and the rotunda of the Capitol
Hotel, which has been swarmed with all
sorts and conditions of men during the
last three days, is as deserted as country
schoolhouse in harvest time.
1t was 2 o'clock this morning when the
Hot Springs Athletic Club people became
convinced that they were waging q hope
less fight against the Governor and the
courts. When they had reached this de-
cision Colonel Murphy and City Attorney
Martin of Hot Springs, who represented
the cub, called upon the Governor at his
residence.
Despite the lateness of the hour he re-
ceived the visitors, and when he learned
that they came to sue for peace he entered
heartily into the spirit of the conference.
Despite his assertion earle in the even
ing that the matter was before the courts
and consequently out of his hands, he
expressed a willingness to do what he
could toward securing favorable terms for
the pugilists, and Acknowledgement Kins-
worthy was summoned to join the con-
ference. 1t was nesrly daylight when the
talk ended but the terms of peace were
concluded.
1t was agreed on the part of the State
that the proceedings on the peace war
rants should be withdrawn, and the Hot
Springs people, speaking for the pngilists,
undertook that there should be no attempt
to pull off the fight, and that the rival
sloggers should leave the State as soon as
they could conveniently arrange their
effects.
The injunction issued by Chancellor
Martin was to stand, and it was under
stood that any violation of its terms would
entail the severest penalty that could be
n q n
terms were ratified in a subsequent con-
ference held at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
The news of the surrender was kept very
quiet, but when the Fitzsimmons case
came up before Judge Martin in the Cir
cult Court at half-past 9, and the Attorney
General asked for postponement, stating
that arrangements were in progress to dis
miss all the cases against the pugilists,
every one knew that the last hone of
bringing off the fight in Arkansas had
t1ickered out. After that the release of
the prize-ighters and their managers was
merely matter of legal details.
Both men are out of training. They
make some pretense of doing light work,
but neither is in any sort of condition. and
their Indifference to this important feature
is a sure indication that they have given
up the idea of fghting-certainly at any
time within the near future.
HOT SPRINGS, ARK, Nov. 2.-Corbett
and Brady returned from Little Rock to-
night, having stopped off for several hours
at the Spring Lake training quarters.
Brady says he has made his last effort. and
will make or listen to no more proposi-
tions concerning fight. According to the
statements made by both friends and op-
ponents of FitZsmmons, the latter's atti-
tude is due to the fact that he is dead
broke. 1t is even said that he has not got
money to get out of Little Rock unless per-
mitted to give show.
1t is urged that in view of this disclosure
the fighter is entitled to sympathy rather
than dehunciation, although it is admitted
that he should make a clean breast of the
matter if he does not wish to hereafter be
regarded as funk. Parson Davies and
his company left for Chicago to-day,
thoroughly disgusted. The trip from
Detroit on the "sure tip" cost the ''parson"
about $500.
MEMPHIS, TENN, Nov. 2. - What
smacks of new tack in the effort to pull
off the Corbett- -Fitzsimmons prizefight is a
guileless appearing telegram received by
the sporting editor of the Commercial
Appeal tonight, dated Hot Springs and
signed Brady. 1t announces that Corbett
and his training party of fourteen will
positively be in this city and give an
athletic exhibition Monday night next.
Meantime Fitzsimmons is announcing
similar exhibition at Little Rock on the
same evening.
1t is positively known that emissaries
from the prize-fighting combination in
this evening and asked few general ques-
tions of the manager concerning terms,
etc. There is well-defned suspicion that
the scheme is to go ahead with the al
legged athletic exhibition and at the proper
moment ring in Fitzsimmons, and thus
pull off the great fight.