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ABSOLUTELY pUESE
NO MONEY, NO FIGHT.
Fitz Says He Has Been Shut Out by Cor
bette Combination.

bette Combination.
Here is the story Pugilist TitZsim-
mons told a reporter the ether day:
well, i don't care about saying toe
much i'll thu newspapers about my griev-
ance have one, though, and have had
it for u long time had fully made up
my mind to keep quiet OH this subject
i'll the hope that the people who have
been arranging this kaleidoscope affair
would see the error of their way and
make a fair arrangement with me- But
they have not, and now that the fight is
only six weeks off and they have shown
10 disposition to consult me i'll tho
matter can see no good reason why
the public should not he made familiar
with the facts.
About fo,lr months ago, when was
showing Will, my speciality company III
Cincinnati, ~ gentleman named Latham
called OH me and unfolded Il scheme for
the reproduction Of the coming fight.
We talked the matter over thoroughly,
and to say that was much pleased at
the idea is putting it mildly. We part
ed With the understanding THAT wc We're
to meet the next day and agree us to
what should receive for the permission
Of being eidoloscoped the world over
"Well, to make long story short,
Mr. Latham never came back the next
day, nor did any one connected With
him or his invention. Now. this of it
self does not constitute much of !: griev-
ance, but you will see the point before
finnish.
CHOW, this concern proposes to take
pictures of the championship fight. of
each round, and to exhibit them in all
the big cities of this country and
abroad. Their scheme is to hire the
ater or large hall i'll eacl, place and give
u reproduction of the fight.
"No man can fail to SEQ the big mon
ey that is i'll this thing for the people
controlling it. 1 don't, at all events,
and now those who control this thing
must step up aud pay right handsomely
too. :"
"What do you expect?" asked the re-
porter.
Twenty thousand dollars, and not a
cent less, said FitZ firmly.
"There was no figure mentioned at
that time, but name mine now-S2O, :
600 or no pictures and no fight
"No fight? Why. what has this ma
chine got to do with the fight" queried
the reporter.
''Oh. sec you don't catch the drift
of this thing. Well, I'll tell you. Do
you know who OWLS the Florida Ath-
letic club? Joe Vendig. All, yes, i'll my
eye. You know who made Nendig, don t
you? Well, what is the use of saying
more? Now, further, don't you know
that Vendig g. Co. are going to share
the receipts of the fight and that Corbett
and Brady have 10 per cent OF the club:
Doesn't that tell good deal: Further
than that, when this Mr. Latham saw
me i'll Cincinnati he told me that he
came to town to see Corbctt and Brady,
who showed i'll Cincinnati the week pre-.
yioHs TO me, and that he was about to
leave tho city when lie learned that /
you'd be in town the following Mon
day, and he therefore decided to wait
over to soc me OIL this subject.
''Thcre must be 100000 for me if
they want to bring their apparatus il,
the building as Dallas. I will see Dan
Stuart personally, just as soon as l get
TO Texas, and unless ! am paid this
.noney I won't 80 in the ring to fight.
Mr.. Stuart must give me every assur-
ance that these people will not he per-
mitted to make the pictures without my
sanction. will trust Dan Stuart if lie
gives mo his word, for l believe he is
All honorable man.
"Some people may think that my fig
ure is high, but don't. Stop for mo.
ment and think that when this fight was
being arranged the Edison kaleidoscope
company bid $50, 900 for the contest to
be fought for them i'll private, and their
kinest0s:ope will only permit of one
person" viewing the aght at one time,
while this kaleidoscope can portray the
battle to 10000 people if they can get
ini4 the building where it is exhibited
.M:.fhese people, Yendig, Brady and
Corbett," concluded Fitzsinlmons,
'tknow a good thing Of conrse, but they
eaa pct their lives that II these folks
persist in making the pictures they
WON'T peed any procla9ml9!aatinH la9ml ri from Gov
crnor Culberson or any one slsa to pre-.
vent our battle, for / simply WON'T
fight. New York Journal