The San Francisco call., 1895-11-02
And the Lengthy Australian
Returned the Salutation
With a Grin.
AN OMNIBUS INJUNCTION JOKE
Now the Pugilists and Backers Would
Gladly Leave Arkansas if
They CouFd.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK, Nov. 1.-Corbett
and Fitzsimmons will not fight in Ar
kansas. This proposition is settled as
nearly as anything can be settled that is
not an accomplished fact, and when it is
added that the pugilists themselves admit
that the game is up it may be conceded
that the courts and the Governor have
won.
1t is altogether safe to say that Corbett
and his rival would be glad to be any
where out of this State with a promise to
never revisit it. This conclusion was not
reached without great deal of noisy talk
on the side of the pugilists and display of
renewed vigor upon the part of the authori-
ties. Much old straw was threshed over
verbally by the pugilists and their hackers
in their rooms at tie hotel to-day. Propo-
sitions and counter propositions few fast
and thick. Offers of fabulous purses were
heard from various points Of the compass
and discussed with unabated heat by the
prize-ring followers who had drifted up
from Hot Springs in the wake of Corbett
and his party.
There was conference of one kind and
another going on every minute of the day,
except while the prize-fghters and their
attorneys were in court wrangling over
the peace warrants.
Not only the sporting contingent but
the natives of the town had caught the
fever, and one would have thought instead
OF being engaged in a grapple with the
courts and the Governor of Arkansas for
their liberty the two pugilists had only to
agree OH terms and pull off the long
advertised match in the suburbs to-
morrow morning. The result of all this
parley was II striking contrast to the vari-
Gus stories that flew through the air all
day. Fitzsimmons, Corbett, Brady and
Julian are tonight asleep in their re-
spective hotels guarded by a Deputy
Sheriff. The judiciary has not only main
tanned its hold upon the pugilistic con
tingent but has added fresh meshes to the
web in which they are entangled, and Gov
ernor Clarke, looking more like Henry
Clay than ever, sat in his Office and in q
smiling way declared that he has only
begun his campaign and that his strongest
cards are still in reserve.
The chief events of the day were the ar
rival of Corbett and his party from Hot
Springs, the peace-warrant proceedings in
the Circuit and Chancery courts, and last,
and most important of all, the issuance by
Chancellor Martin of a sweeping omnibus
injunction restraining nearly every ybody in
Arkansas from having any part in q prize
fight at Hot Springs or elsewhere in the
State of Arkansas. 1t is this legal docu-
ment which has destroyed the last hope
OF the tight-agitators and caused the prin-
cipals and their hackers to throw up their
hands and admit themselves bested.
The postponement OF the hearings in
the peace-warrant case by Judge Martin
and his namesake, the Chancellor. was e1-
pected and discounted. The attorneys
for the fighters expected nothing else, and
so informed their clients. 1t was antici-
pated that the Attorney General would
play for delay, and no one was surprised
when the cases went over until tomorrow
but the injunction was another matter.
1t was not alone unexpected, but it was
stunning in its force, and when the news
of its issuance became current it was ad-
mitted on every side that Arkansas was
no longer debatable ground, and that if
COrbett and Fitzsimmons were to fight at
all it must be in other territory than that
so jealously guarded by Governor Clarke.
The recognition Of this fact at once set the
matchmakers at work afresh and late to-
night there is a prospect that if the pugi-
lists can make their peace with the Ar
kansas authorities on the condition OF
getting out of the State they may yet
meet in the ring before select company
for side bet of $4,000 each. This propo-
sition will be treated of later on.
The story of the day is a simple one,
divested of the wild talk and senseless
rumors that seemed to engross the atten-
tion of most people around the hotels.
Corbett and his party, consisting of Man
ager Brady, Billy Delaney, Jim McVey
and John Donaldson, arrived at 10 o'clock
this morning from Hot Springs.
They were nominallv in the custody OF
Sheriff Houpt of Garland County, who had
served the warrants issued by Chancellor
Martin of Little Rock. The party regis
tered at the Capitol Hotel and Corbett at
once repaired to the opera.house, where he
went to work in an improyised gymna-
siam. His antagonist, the elongated Au-
stralian, had arisen early, and in company
with the two deputy sheriffs visited the
gymnasium of the Little Rock Boat Club,
where he punched the bag and had bout
with the gloves with one of his custodians.
Thus it happened that, although the
rival sloggers were registered at the same
hotel, they did not encounter each other
until dinner time. The meeting was
rather in the nature of disappointment
TO those who imagined that the men would
fly at each others throats like bulldogs.
Nothing, on the contrary, could have been
more amiable, not to say frolicsome, than
their actions. Corbett, who had entered
the dining-room some time before Fitzsim-
mons made his appearance, finished his
dinner, and in leaving the room passed
close to the table at which the Australian
was seated.
There was glance of mutual recog-
milton. Then Corbett stopped for minute,
gazed benevolently at his rival and per-
formed the dancing movement known as
"chassez ALL" being rapid side step in
quick time. Having executed this feat he
stopped. smiled again and waited kiss
from the tips of his fingers to Fitzsim-
mons, who grinned amiably in return.
The champion then put his hand to the
side of his mouth and in a stage whisper
elaculated the single syllable "Boo,"