The evening times., 1895-08-26
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Dan Stuart and his colleagues are sale
10 be much surprised over the declaration
of Gov. Culberson, that he proposes to stop
/ theF FitzsimmOns-C Corbctt fight, whether
| there is law or no law for his action. If
the Stuart outfit hal shown a little more
| good common sense and been less talkative
IL is more than likely that Gov. Culberson
would not have taken the stand that he has
If there Will be no law In Texas after the
lstof September that viii prohibit boxing,
as many good lawyers claim, no one, per
| haps. knows this feet better than Gov Gull
berson. Ir those VINO say they know the
| governor well are 10 be relied on. he is by
| no means OF the straight-laced order He
| would have taken no step toward stopping
the fight that the Ia W did not force himtotake.
In fact, Gov. Culberson has been looked
upon as friendly TO the affair until re-
Gently. The reason for the change i'll his
feeling is not hard tosee. ltwould have been
brought to any man in Gov Culberson's po-
sition who possessed an ounce of spirit or
pride. From the very start of the controversy
over this battle Stuart and his partners have
treated Gov. Culberson as a nonentity.
They have ignored him and belittled every
thing said or done by him or other Texas
officials on every occasion that has pre-
sentcd itself. and many times when there
was no occasion for il, they have delibcr-
ately insultcd the whole State government
of Texas by sending broadcast over the
world over Stuart's signature the assur-
ance that the opinions and attitude OF the
State authorities cut no figure in the mat
ter: that no attention need be paid to them;
that they amounted to nothing, and that the
fight would come off whether the governor
and his associates liked it or whether they
didn't Gov. Culberson has simply been
made antagonistic to the mill by the ignor-
ance and insolence of the Stuart outfit, ard
If he carries out his threat the Stuart com
blnation can blame nobody but themselves
Big Joe McAuliffe, who at one time was
thought by the Pacific coast people to be
the coming worlds champion, but Whose
championship aspirations were nipped in
the bud by Peter Jackson, is again anxious
10 get into the ring. He is out with an offer
10 box anybody who Will take him. What
he wants is another start.
Billy Duke, of Baltimore, is to box
Indian Frank Wongo before the Ariel
Club of Norfolk next Thursday night The
bout is said TO be for $3.50 a side and
$3.50 purse, and the club has promised TO
give the winner a match with the best
13S-pounder it can obtain. Thursdays.
bout is TO be TO a finish.
John L. Sullivan has been offered an en-
gagement to make Il tour of England. The
greatest fighter that ever lived says he
doesn't like England much, but, as there
seems to be money in such a trip, he thin ks
he will take il.
W. II. Clark, of Texas, partner of Dan
Stuart, is authority for the statement
that Fitzsimmons is regarded by South
ern betting men as the likely winner of his
bout with Corbett. and that it is his be-
lief that Bob will be 10O-to-90 favoritc
when the men enter the ring.
Peter Mahcr's recent easy victroy over |
the English boxer, Johnston, at Dublin |
has raised him greatly in the estimatio |
of English ring followers. Formerly they |
didn't have much of an opinion of Peter, |
Now they say he stands right up among |
the first rank Of boxers.
When a man once gets mixed up in the |
boxing business it Seems hard for him TO |
get away from II. Clever Jimmy Carroll,
who has been in Mexico for two years or
more, doing prosperous saloon business,
announced some time ago that he was
out with the short-haired fraternity for
good. Now the news comes that he is to
be the hacker and trainer of Bill Smith,
the recent English importation, whom he
will match against any man in the world
in the middle weight division. Carroll
will soon come To the States with Smith