The evening times., 1895-09-16
HONEST JOHNS BOLD Def
1t Looks Like the Coolest Kind
of a Bunco.
Some Observations and Suggestions
Pertaining 10 Jack McAuiiffe's
1000 Challenge.

The sudden coming to the front of Jack
| McAu,irfe with an off er Ia fight any man
in the world at 135 pounds for $4,000 a
side, has an air of mystery about it that
makes il very interesting.
| At intervals of Il week or two for year
/ or more il has been given out that McAuliffe
was about done for as pugilist and short
time since it was announced that Jack
himself, having come to realize that he
~as no longer in it as a fighter, had quit
the ring for good.
A number of reasons for Jacks alleged
determination were given. One was that
lie had grown so big that he could not
] again get down to weight and fight in his
old class. and that lie did not care TO go
into any other.
Another reason given was that Jacks
hands had gone wrong, and that he could
! not get them into u shape that would
warrant trusting them in another champion
ship battle.
All of the time, however, that this talk
has been going on, McAuiiffe has been laying
back out Of sight, living more quiet and
exemplary life than he ever lived before.
He was around Washington for n couple
of months In the early part OF the year,
doing light preliminary work, il was said,
for a limited affair with Griffo, which II
WAS freely predicted by wcll-posted ones,
would never take place. While here his
way of living was of the most regular and
strengthening kind.
Then Jack suddenly disappeared. 1t
was said he had gone West Ia play the
races or something of the sort Afterward
it was found that he was at Mount Clen-
ents, Mich, going through regular and
rigid course of sprouts but the stories that
his fighting days were over still kept find
ing their way into the newspapers un what
appeared TO be good authority.
or course, these reports of Jacks unfit
ness for further ring work filled the half
dozen or more would be light weight cham
pions with burning desire 10 fight him.
With the now heavyweight champion 'ssuc.
cess in whipping has beens" before them,
Kid Lavigne, the Michigander; Griffo, the
Australian, and Valentine, the Englishman,
have Unloading the newspapers with chal-
lenges to fight McAuliffe, and apparently
there is money behind all of them.
And now that these aspiring pugilistic
buds and their hackers, all of whom have
been making more or less capital out of
their alleged consuming desire to get at Nc
Auliffe, have arrived at the point where
they will have to come forward with their
money and fight, or make clean, uDadul-
terated funk, Jack emerges from obscurity
with an able body, clear head, good hands
and sec, 900 at his back that says he can
whip any man of his weight on earth. 1t
looks a little bit as though Honest John"
and his syndicate had been working the
bunco game.
Reports from the West are to the effect
that the railroads that have been expecting
to make a good thing OF. the Dallas boxing
carnival. and that have got into squabhle
over rates, are still at log gerheads, and that
there now seems to be little chance of their
settling their differences. This will not be
unpleasant news to Northern and Eastern
sports, for those no attend the fights will
in all probability get to Dallas and back
for about one half what it would have cost
them if the roads had continued peaceful.
Kid Mccoy, who has been cutting some
thing OF swath in pugilistic affairs for
several years, but who seems to think
that his recent defeat of Dick Moore was
the greatest event of his life, is now ready,
he says, to meet any middleweight in the
business for from $4,000 to $4,000 a side.
What a picnic this would be for Fitzsim
mons if he didn't have the Corbett affair
on hand.
Johnny Griffin has been matched to
box Australian Billy Murphy twenty rounds
at Louisville the latter part of this month.
Their match means a good deal for both of
these famous little men. To Griffin de-
feat means pugilistic obscurity, while to
Murphy victory means another go with
George Dixon.
A special dispatch from Dallas to q st. |
Louis paper says that Dan Stewart and
others interested in the coming boxing
carnival in that city are apparently ner-
vous over private advices they have re-
ceived concerning Corbett's condition and
movements, and that they have been max
ing anxious inquiries as to their truth. In
answer to a message sent by Stewart, Brady
is said to have wired that Corbett had
trained consistently for six weeks" and
that he was in thorough pugilistic condi-
tioD." II Brady sent such a dispatch as
this it is not surprising that the Dallas
people are dubious.
Chicago paper, commenting on the re-
ports that are flying around, says that
"Corbett's movements lend color to the
growing suspicion that he is not sincere in
his intention to meet Fitzsimmons, and that
his apparent carelessness of consequences
is doing more to destroy public faith in the
ability of the Florida Athletic Club to bring
off the fight at Dallas or anywhere else
than the threats Of interference on the part
of the authorities. Corbett has lost thou
sands of his most ardent admirers through
his matrimonial mix-up, and it may bethat
that is preying upon his mind" Il
Bradley and Downer, the two English