The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-04
WITH THE FIGHTERS

Fred Began, who was matched to tight
Frasier before the Athletic Club on March
9th, writes the following letter to the
sporting editor of The Herald, dated at
the Hotel De Lyons, March LIST:
Sporting Editor of The Herald Il am
still out here training for my match with
Jack Frasier. | went in to see Frasier's
hacker last night and he told me that he
would have new articles of agreement for
me to sign, the contest to take place two
weeks from signing. 1t is to be. a finish
also told me that there is to be another
club in Los Angeles, and that the public
of Los Angeles would see good contests
for good-sized purses If this is a fact it
will be good move for this city.
I. w. Lyons has an unknown out here
whom he is willing to back for from $500
to $1,000. He is a fine, big-looking colored
boy only Is years old, weighs It's pounds
and is feet 10 inches.
He is a good, clever fellow; | box with
him every day. He is to be tried out
with big negro Sunday afternoon. If
any heavy weight wants to make a match
he can find man and money at any time
at the Hotel De Lyons, Mission Road.
Fred Began.
There is another hitch in the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight arrangements. Fitz-
simmons is in bad way financially and
has not been able to raise his third in
stallment of $500 for the big stake, which
was due on Friday. Fortunately for him
Philip J. Dwyer the financial stakeholder,
is in Florida, and this fact will give him
some additional time in which to hunt up
backing. He hustled about New York the
greater part of last week trying to get
former friends to put up the necessary
amount, but without success. Ftz is such
a Ia nj ma IN m or that thpN al1 fyht
shy of having business dealings with him,
He has already had two managers during
the past year-his brotherinlaw, Martin
Julian, and Captain Glori-and split with
both of them. However, failure to put up
this third installment of the stake will
hardly prevent meeting III the ring, for
Corbett has declared that he would fight
the lanky ahtipodean for satisfaction and
a bone button, If there is nothing
else in sight to fight for.
A critic of Quincy, H., with an unlim-
tied vocabulary, writes as follows of Fitz-
simmons recent appearance in that city:
Professor Robert de Fitz Simmons, the
eminent fin virtuoso appeared to a big
audience at the Empire last night The
professor has ears like wings on Rubens'
cherubs 1t looks as if it would be an
easy task for Professor Corbett to take his
ears in hand and hold him against the
wall while he hammers his face till it
stovepipe and arms like dray stakes. He
wears at the south end Of each arm Il
hand which resembles a porterhouse roast
i'll area and form. He would never do to
pose as physical model before the
acadomy-he looks rs if he slept in fold
ing bed. -
George p. Green, better known as
Young Corbett,' arrived in the city
yesterday morning from San Francisco.
! He will remain here few weeks prior to
going East to join the Corbett Company.
Corbett has always manifested the keen
est interest in his protege, and in his re-
! cent interview on the merits of the differ
ent fighters of the day stated that his
| namesake was the most scientific man of
his class in the world.
In speaking OF the proposed contest be-
tween himself and Billy Gallagher of this
city Green said that the whole matter
was in the hands of his manager and any
arrangements which he might make would
be satisfactory to him so long as he can
! reach New York before the 18th of April.
1t is generally conceded by those who
know the qualifications of both men that
in case the contest is patted off Young
Corbett will have to look well co his lau-
rus as Gallagher is hrst-class welter-
weight and will make an interesting study
for the best of them. He is a clever, game
fighter and "a very hard puncher.
Green has only one defeat booked
against him. He fought Paddy Smith at
Roby, Indiana, twenty-nine rounds, when
Champion Corbett who was in Green s
corner threw up the sponge. Green had
the fight SO well in his own hands at the
end Of fifteen rounds that bets OF three to