Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-10-25
CLARKE IS EMPHATIC
Declares the Fight Will Not
Take Place in Arkansas.
MILITIA MAY BE CALLED UPON
The Governor Says ne Will Not allow
The Pugilists to Meet Even
to shake Hands.


to shake Hands.
Little Rock, Oct. II. - Governor
Clarke's determination to stop the Cor
bett-F Fitzsimmons contest was empha-
sized today in the presence Of General
Taylor, brigadier- general of the Ar
kansas state guards, who was sum-
moned here by telegraph to confer
with the governor, in regard to the
strength of the state militia. General
Taylor was in conference with Cover
nor Clarke, for an hour this morning,
and when seen by reporter was pre-
pairing to take the train for Hot
Springs. General Taylor said the fight
would not occur. His purpose in going
to Hot Springs, he said, was to warn
the people there against the danger to
which they would subject themselves,
should an attempt be made to have the
contest. The state guard, he said, was
in good condition and amply sufficient
to cope with the case in hand. He
could, he said, with few hours no.
tice, land $50 well-drilled and fully
equipped men in Hot Springs. General
Taylor will return here tomorrow and
advise Governor Clarke as to the situa-
tion in Hot Springs, and the result OF
his visit there.
| Governor Clarke, when questioned
in reference to his consultation with
General Taylor, was not disposed to
talk. Asked if he had confidence in
the ability of the state guard to carry
out his plans, he said the militia was
matter of secondary consideration;
that he could get all the force neces-
sary outside of the militia. He reiter-
ated his former declaration that the
fight would not be permitted to take
place and said he could make no dis
tinction between prizefght and
glove contest.
Suppose, Governor Clarke" sug.
gested the reporter, 'Corbett and Fitz-
simmons should desire to give an exhi-
bition of physical culture in Hot
Springs, October 81, in which large
soft gloves were to be used, would that
also be stopped by military force?''
"Corbett and Fitzsimmons shall not
meet in Hot Springs in any kind of
contest, said Governor Clarke, en-
phatically. "If they ever meet, they
will fight, and they shall not fight in
Arkansas. They shall not meet in Hot
Springs, either in or out of ring.
They shall not even shake hands. "
When asked if Cobrett would be ar
rested upon his arrival at Hot Springs,
Governor Clarke said that good gem
eral never discloses his plans to the
enemy. Information came from pri-
vate source today that the Florida Ath-
letic Club is considering a plan by
, which it hopes to overcome the obsta-
cles placed before it by Governor
Clarke. The scheme is to turn the
whole affair over to the Hot Springs
Association. That association was in
corporated by William Babcock, John
G. Lonsdale and Charles II. Weaver,
all of Hot Springs. According to its
,, charter, the association was organized
to ''carry ON the business OF maintain
: ing a park or place of recreation in OF
; near the city of Hot Springs, wher'
. races, athletic sports and games coult
: : be practiced and exhibited, and means
i of entertainment furnished either tt
' the public or to such persons or associ
: ations as may be admitted thereto. "
% Under the charter the people inter
ested believe they can conduct boxing
:: match limited to specific number o
u rounds, with soft gloves, without vic
u lating any state law. When informe
!. of this scheme, Governor Clarke state
le that the state chartered corporation
and associations for legal purpose
70 only, and that no violation of the lay
II would be tolerated under the guise c
W amusement. He was not prepared
however, to state just what legal etfee
:. the proposed change would have.