Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07
BIG FIGHT OFF.
OR AT LEAST POSTPONED IN
TIL NEXT WEEK.
4 Crowd Assemblies to Hear Corbett's
Def But He Don't Show
up-Hot at Clarke.

Hot Springs, Nov. 1.-The big fight
Is put over until next week and there
is no chance OF CcrDett ard FitzSim-
mons meeting in the ring before Tues
day at the very earliest. The chances
are that anybody arriving here next
Wednesday will see the fight, if it
comes off. There Will, however, be a
fight Monday afternoon, when Maher
and O'DOnnen viii meet with five
ounce gloves in Wilmington Park,
two miles from the center of the
town. This match is indefinitely set
tied, and unless the state interfereS
in forcible manner, Ut will be fought
out according to program. Smith and
Ryan will probably be given a chance
Tuesday. The fight committee came
to the conclusion yesterday afternoon
to have the Maher-0'Donneu fight on
the receipt Of an order from Little
Rock that it would be impossible to
get FttzsimmonS out of his legal Ell
tanglements and have him in Hot
Springs for the fight this week.
COrbett was scheduled to appear in
the ring at Wilmington park at high
noon yesterday, throw off his cap and
sweater and announce to those pres
emit THAT he was champion of the
world and that, as FitzsimmOns was
not there, he was ready, willing and
anxious to defend the title against all
comers. This was the program, ac
cording to Manager Brady. AT the
appointed time a crowd of men and
boys gathered in the park to see Cor
bett, but as he did not appear after
Waiting some time they abandoned
all idea of hearing the champion defy
the world. In Hot Springs the fee
ing i'm favor of the fight is growing
stronger every hour and that against
the governor increases at like ratio.
He is an exceedingly unpopular man
in Hot Springs just now and so we'll
is this appreciated by his friends that
Attorney General Kingsworthy said
whine it WAS supposed Gov. Clarke
would come down from Little Rock
with the militia: ''It will be just as
we'll for him not to come here at pres
ent. l do not apprehend any per
sonal violence to him.
Little, Rock, Nov. lit was gieVn
out last might ON good authority that
the FitzsimmonS and Julian cases
Will again be continued when they
come UP in Judge Martins court TO-
day 1t is Gov. Clarke's purpose to
have the case continued from time to
time until the pugilists become thor
orlgi1ly Disguised and the fight is fin
ALLY declared off.
Hot Springs, Nov. Harry White,
trainer for Fitzsimmons, said last
night that he did not believe that
there would be amy fight at all be
tween his man and COrbett. ''The
fact is" said White, ''Fftzsimm0ns is
afraid and span of oxen will not
drag him into the ring. i know this
is so and I've told FitzsimmOns that |
will train with him no longer. Pm
Disguised with HIM and the way he
acts. Fitzsimmons does not mean
business this time"
Little Rock, Nov. 2.-There lis now
a probability that the big fight will
come off The time will be within a
week and the location somewhere in
the state Of Louisiana, the exact spot
to be determined later This much
was decided upon late yesterday after
noon after the trials of Corbett and
Fitzsimmons had been adjourned.
Brady was cross and out Of temper
with all the trouble and delay he had
been Through. His interview with the
governor upset him still more and the
announcement that Dan Stuart had left
Hot Springs for Little Rock with a
proposition to have the fight come off
in Il Paso for q purse Of $4,000
aroused his. ire TO 2 greater pitch.