The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-10-10
THE PRIZE FIGHT PUZZLE
Finally Solved by the Selection OF
Hot Springs, Ark.
DATE OF THE EVENTS UNCHANGED
Martin Julian, Fitnsimmons Manager,
Gains His Point That the Name Of the
Referee Shall Not be Known Untm tho
Day of the Fight.

DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 10.-The Florida
Athletic club yesterday moved its head
quarters to Hot Springs, Ark, where it
will hold its pugilistic carnival Of three
days, commencing Oct 81, the date orig
finally selected and already given out. All
the parties to the contest have fully agreed.
and the matter Is settled
Conditions having changed 80 quietly
and positively, the dato and place Of the
mill being named In less than twenty five
hours after the conference, though the
club had forty eight hours from Tuesday
night to decide In, there were lots of
things to be done including the arrange
ments for getting to work on building
and preparing for transportation. How
ever, a great many matters were arranged
in the conference Tuesday night. The
question came up at the conference whether
or not Julian and Brady would agree to
fight outside Of Texas. There was no diff
flculty on this score. That being settled,
the question was would they consent to
moving the date to Nov. 20. Both opposed
this. Their men, they said, wcro alrcady
on fighting edge, 80 to speak. Julian in
sisted particularly on this. 1t seems, there
fore, that a concession WAS made In this
regard by the club.
Brady sprung q telegram from Phil j.
Dwyer, of New York. tho official stake
holder, that Fitzsimmons' stake money
had been attached, the amount involved
being ss, 100. Brady and Julian had d dis
cussion over this, ending in Julian prom
Using to make good the amount ON Oct. 18.
Julian blamed Attorney Friend, Of New
York, for the attachment proceedings, as
serting that he forced himself on Fitzsim-
mons, and otherwise, as Julian charges,
used Fitzsimmons as a handle to keep
himself before the public in connection
with the Australians affairs. A claim was
put In by Julian for the forfeit Of - 500
II the mill docs not take place on Oct. 81.
This was silenced by the proving of the
fact that the club had the right to pull the
mill Off any time after July 1, 1895.
The big event Of the conference was the
question as to whether or not q referee
should be selected at once. The club de-
manded IL as their right that The referee
be named without delay Brady demanded
the same. Julian stood pat on his old
proposition that tho referee should be
named on the day of the fight There was
o hot discussion between Julian, Brady
and Vendig, the latter declaring for the
club that unless referee was named at
once they would declare the fight off. Ju-
liam said 1t would have to go at that then.
Julian argued that the safest way to pre-
vent referee from being tampered with
was to keep his name secret until the day
of the fight. Brady said Corbett would
never again sign articles of agreement
until the referee was named in the same.
Julian finally consented to consider the
proposition that he and Brady should each
select name from six, the same to be
kept secret until the day of tho fight, and
then, If the names were not the same, the
decision between the two should be de-
cided by a toss up. 1t is learned on good
authority that all conditions as embraced
in the original articles of agreement will
be carried out at the new location for the
triple fistic carnival.