The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-04
to stop it if any attempt is made to have
the contest come off here

the contest come Off here"
Baltimore, June 3.-The long neralded
ter round fight between Joe Choynski, of
California and Jack Cattanach, of Provi-
dence, r. l., proved to be the greatest
pugilistic fiasco ever presented to the
Baltimore public The first round demon
strated the fact that Cattanach was sim
ply an easy mark for Choynski. The sec
ond round was a. repetition of the first
and light tap on Cattanachs neck
ended the contest.
Dallas. Tex, June S.-In pugilistic and
sporting circles it is regarded as certain
that the Corbett-Fitzsimmon fight will
take place in Dallas. The following dis
patch was received here today:
New York, June 3.-Am almost GER
tain everything will be closed our way
tomorrow night. Am trying hard to make
terms that will leave the Yankee money
in Texas.
"a S. STUART"
The fight will take place during the
state fair which begins on the 18th of
October and ends on the 31st. An i'm
mense building enclosing an amphitheatre
with a seating capacity of 10000, will
have to be erected for the occasion. This
building will probably be erected just out
side the fair grounds.
New York, June 3.-Fitzsimmons, Joe
Vendig and Dan Stewart called on Law
yer Friend at his office this afternoon
and discussed the pros and cons of the
big mill. They all agreed that everything
looked promising for the meeting between
Corbett and F'itzsimmons. Lawyer Friend
said he was quite satisfied with the guar
antees and that the affair would go
through. The Corbett end of it, accord
ing to Manager Brady, is also satisfied
with the guarantees given by the Texas
man.
Later the hackers of the pugilists met
in an uptown sporting house and they
repeated after the conference that they
are confident the fight would pull off in
the latter part of October at Dallas. AS
preliminaries to the contest for the cham
pionship it is proposed to watch the win
ners of the Maher-O'DonnelI and
Choynski-Hall fights soon to be decided.
Tommy Ryan, of Chicago, and Billy
Smith, of Boston, and the best man at
the weights against Billy Plimmer or a
limited or finish fight are also mentioned
Boston, June S.-One thousand persons
saw two excellent boxing contests at the
Suffolk Athletic club tonight, in which
Leslie Pearce, of Philadelphia, was given
a decision over Stanton Abbott of Eng
land, at the end of the twentieth round
contest, and Patsy Fenton, of Boston.
was declared the superior of Jimmy
Powers, of South Boston, in a ten round
go. Both contests were clean and scien-
tific and Referee DAILY decided them upon
strict scientific points.
The Pearce-Abbott contest was hard
fought throughout. Both men were in
excellent condition at 135 pounds. For the
first five rounds Abbott did the best
work and showed his cleverness in jab-
bling Pearce apparently at will. From
that until the seventeenth round Pearce
was the aggressor and fought like a
tiger, but the English lad was too clever
to take all the punishment and this alone
saved him from receiving the final touch
several times. Abbott was as cool as an
iceberg and fought as if the contest was
not limited by rounds, and from the
seventeenth to the close of the twenti-
eth round he showed his ability and stay
ing powers by almost smothering Pearce
with a shower of blows from right and
left.
Abbott rallied too late, however, to re-
cover lost ground and the decision was
regarded as a fair one in Pearce's favor.