The evening times., 1895-10-07
LAYIGNE And GRIFRO BOUT
For the Nom snt It Puts Corbett
and Fitzsimmons in the Shade.
1t Is Expected to BE the Greatest
lightweight Battle of the Year.
Winner WIN Be Challenged.
lSne,.ial TO The Times.l

setto is To :ake place before the Active Atm
letic Club, Of Bayonue, n. j., tonight, and
for the moment even the Corbett and Fitz-
simmons affair is laid iu the shade.
1t has been long time since as much in
terest has been shown in a lightweight con
test as this one has awakened. IL is not
only an internal ional affair, but many of
the best judges of pngilists regard the
Michigan boy and The Austra as Tie very
best pair in the lightweight class of the
present day. and II great bout is looked for.
Griffo is conceded wonderful cleverness
with his hands and his magnificent ring gen
eralship is expected 10 he a stand-o1f for
Lavigne' great strength and hitting powers.
but even with this the Kid seems to have
the preference as the winner.
Griffo is i'll good condition, and is not at
all worried over the outcome. He is
as confident as any man Gould be that he
will down Lavigne. He asserts that he
will teach his opponent a trick or Two about
the boxing game that may he OF service
to HIM herea fter hut that viii prove
very troublesome to him tonight.
A good deal of money is going up, with
Lavigne slight favorite. Critic money
is plentiful and is forthcoming by the ask
ing This fight is looked upon as sure
leader TO a right for Jack McAuiiffe Tor
the ligh, weight championship or the world,
and this is what gives it so much interest
for the followers of pugilism. McAuliffe
will be at the ringsde to challenge, and it
is said already has big forfeit III the hands
OF a well il-known sporting man TO bind
match. Jack is very bitter against Griffo,
and openly says he hopes he will win, be
cause that will make him his opponent,
and he would sooner whip him than any
other man in the world.
aorace Leeds has posted a forfeit with
Philadelphia paper to bind match with
Charley McKcever. There has been much
bad blood between Leeds and McKeeyer
ever since their draw of a year ago.
With all that has been said aboGt the
Knockout that Gov. CuIberson gave the Flor
ida Athletic Club and the hunt 'ha, Dan
Stuart is on TO find another battle ground
for the Corbett and Fitzsimmons affair,
nothing has been heard of intentions with
regard to the Maher-O'Donnell and Ryan
Smith bouts. 1t has not been given out
whether the club and Stuart intend TO go
ahead with these fights or whether they
don't. 1t is likely that they will phll off
the three fights according to the original
plan, if fighting ground can be found. but
it is not likely that the fights will be held
in the order laid 1t by theurg inal schedule.
1t was the intention to bring off ihe Cor
bett and Fitzsimmons battle first if the ear
nival at Dallas had been Il lowed 10 get
under way. Under present conditions il is
likely that Stuart will do with the fights.
if he does anything with them, as the small
boy does with his apples-keep she hest
until the last. This way he could % ID his
crowd.
The purpose of bringing off the big bout
first, if the programme had not been inter
fered with. was to insure those who made
the trip 10 Dallas that there would ne no
failure in it, at least by the carnival heing
cut in two after it had been started. I'm
der existing conditions, if the club takes its
entertainment to Mexico VIII ich now seems
to be the objective point, it will do so with
out the possibility of further hinGfance.
and its attractions will be billed so us to
cinch the sale of ticket for each of the
three bouts, aud by holding the Fitzsimmrns
and Corbett meeting over for the w;nd-up
the club would have a pret sure yIIing on
accomplishing this purpose.
Ted Alexander has shaken the dust of
Washington from his feet and sought new
field fer his talent in New York. AieXan-
der was unlucky here. First he brought
Jerry Marshall, and he and Johnny Van
Heest got share and share alike out of
a poor paying exhibition. Then he brought
Billy nooly and he was defeated by Jack
DAILY. Then be helped TO get Paddy Cor
man in trim for his bout with Mcmillan.
and this, too, went wrong. SO his labors
here Were disappointing and unprofitable.
Tony Stanard. who came TO Washing
ton or Thursday, dropped into The Times
office 10 say that the coming bout be-
tween Johnny Glynn and Joe Batefnan was
bound to be a corker, but that unless he
missed calculations. 1t would terminate
differently from the former meetings of
these two clever boxers. Stanard is conf
dent that he can trim the Washington boy
up SO that he viii take Glynn's measure in
good style. Tony is not in love with
Glynn. There is no love lost, if reports are
true. on GlyEn's part. Tony is therefore
determined to make Bateman whip Johnny
if it lie in him TO do il, while Glynn is
just as strongly determined to disa ppoint
both Joe and his trainer by showing them
that the Washingtonian can't down hrn.
There promises to be an interesting time
at Louisville tonight. Gov. Brown is dc
termined that the Murphy and Griffin
fight, scheduled to come off there. shall not
take place, while the mayor and other city
authorities say that they viii do nothing
to interfere with it. and that when they
want the advice or aid of the governor. they
will ask him for it. 1t is more than likely,
however. that the city officers will ac-
cede to the governors wishes before they
get through with the matter and that the
match will be stopped.
Parson Davies is having about the worst
streak of luck that a fighting man manager
has run against in a long time. If the
Stuart carnival fails to come off the Parson
will have had three good paying matches
stopped by the law i'll less than two months.
The first was the Choynski and Godfrey
bout, which was declared off after VOL
colt and O'Brien were arrested at Boston.
Then the match he made for Jimmy Barry
with Kid Madden was stopped by the New
Jersey officials, and now Governor Cul-
berson, SO far as Texas in concerned. has
put a quictus on the match he made for
Tommy Ryan and Billy Smith, W hich would
have been worth something like $4,000
to the winner, and the Parson figured. as
many others have, that his man had the next
thing TO a cinch on the long end of the
money. 1t is no wcndcr that the Parson
is discouraged, and that he is threatening
The speculative boom that has struck
South Africa recently has turned the eyes
of about all of the fighters in England and
Australia toward that country, and now
the fever is attacking the fighters here.
For the last couple years there has been
good picking in Africa for boxers. The
ring has become popular there, and purses
of $4,000 ard $4,000 have been hung
up to be pulled down by the commonest
kind of pugs. Charley Mitchell, Frank
Slavin, and other prominent pugilists of
England are alking of invadi that country
for as against the men now there they
would have a veritable picnic for these