The record-union., 1895-10-31
DISAPPOINTED SPORTS.
Little Likelihood of C0rbett and
Fitzsimmons Meeting To-day.
THE AUSTRALIAN REPORTED TIC
HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.

Two Students Expelled and Fourteen
Others Indefinitely Suspended for
HazinG by the State College Faculty
at BeIlfonte, Pennsylvania, and in
Addition Many, or All. May Have
to Appear In the Criminal Court.
HOT SPRINGS (Ark.), Oct 30
James J. COrbett is safely housed under
a friendly roof in Hot Springs. BY the
articles Of agreement which bear his
signature he guarantees to be in this
city tomorrow to contest for his pres
ent title of champion heavyweight
boxer. He is here and prepared to fill
his part of the bargain. On the other
hand, Robert .Fitzsimmons is speeding
on his way to Little Rock in the Gus
tody of officers of the law acting for the
Governor, and into whose hands, if ad-
vices received here be true, he surren-
dered himself in preference to accept
ing the protection of those who would
have brought him safely to Hot Springs
and Corbett's vicinity.
This is the condition of affairs on the
eve of the day of what gave promise OF
being one of the grandest pugilistic
contests of modern times. Excitement
IN the city reached a high pitch to-day
Little else than the prospects OF F1tz-
simmons arrival was talked of on the
streets, in the stores, about the hotels
and around the Courthouse and Post
office Even the country folks and
laTIT
weekly mail seemed to have caught the
contagion and piled the clerk at the de
livery windows with queries as to
whether the fight was sure to come of
with as much earnestness as that eX-
hfbited by the true-born sports.
During the morning news from the
lCOrnishman's party was a scarce COM
modify, but after dinner, when dis
patch announced that the party was
then between Marshall and Texar-
kama, and that Sheriff Houpt of Hot
Springs, with his package of friendly
warrants in his inside coat pocket,
was their privileged guest, the spirits
of the members of the Hot Springs
Athletic Club and of the visiting sports
who by this time had made quite g
respectable crowd, scared high, and
JOY was uncOnfned.
But as on every day for a week or
more past their jubilatiOn was snort
lived, and the numerous talk that pest
cred everybody who would listen tC
them with the story of how they had
said so all along" in reference to FitZ-
simmons being on the ground to-mor-
row, found their tongues suddenly tied
A private dispatch came in with the in
} formation that FitZsimmOnS had given
the Hot Springs Sheriff the go-by, pre-
ferring to intrust himself to the care
and protection Of the officers from Lit
tie Rock This was at first received with
incredulity, both by many of the
friends of Corbett and by the Fitzsim-
nous following, but when it was con-
firmed by later advices to other par
ties, there was weeping and wailing and
gnaShing of teeth, and the folks who
have been persistently declaring that
the kangaroo was a buffer, etc, and
would not be seen tomorrow within a
good many miles of this ridge of the
OZarks, We're able to raise their voices
high, and find none to contradict them
Naturally enough, the members Of the
local athletic association, which is prac-
tically the Citizens Committee, Were
the ones the most disturbed by this un-
expected eleventh-hOur addition to q
, ten days record of comics and cOmpli-
/ cations when those rendezVoused as
usual at the Arlington Hotel met al
night there was an anxious look or
their faces, and for the first time since
the proposition to bring the fight of
was rnooted they were inclined to be
considerably reserved and uncOmmu1i-
cative.
After views and opinions appeared tC
have been freely exchanged, one of he
principal members of the club was
asked what steps would be taken tC
meet the latest emergency. To this he
replied: I'VE are in a quandary. It is
hard to believe that Fitz has played i;
false. Our latest information is to thC
effect that Sheriff HOupt was also ar
rested, and if that it is the case, then il
ould appear that he was overpowerec
| by superior numbers and had to givy
way to the Pulaski County officers anc
their Miller County contingent. Al
any rate, we shall do nothing definite
in the case until we know what actually
transpired at Hope, or wherever the ar
rest ItOok place We had a specia.
/ tain in waiting at that place, ana eX-
pected the entire party here this even
inc without molestation. If F'itz and
Julian are blameless in the matter, OF
course we will see to it that peace
bonds are furnished at the hearing to-
morrow in Little Rock, but i, on the
other hand. it is shown that they de-
likerately tried to do us up,-Wel
then And here the speaker
turned on his heel as though the pros
poets of q committal of the pugillst anc
his. manager would not be particularly
distasteful to him.
Naturally the news was received
( with grim satisfaction in the COrbett
camp. What the champion himself
thought or said on the subject IS
known only to himself or Brady. and
the latter individual alone Of the crowd
in the rOtunda knew where his princi-
nal was housed, even the champion S
{ Il nj, "a fr
point. John Donaldson, Steve O'DOn-
| nell. Billy Delaney and the other we'll
known pugilsts who have been assist
ing in getting COrbctt into condition
together with scores Of local and visit
ing sporting fraternity, congratulated
each other upon the fact that they
had insisted from the start that Jul
ian was simply engaged in a big bluff
: ing act, and had no intention at the
: time he left Hot Springs last week OF
bringing Fitzsimmons to the city
Defenders of the latter were few and
! far between.
AS for Brady his set teeth and lips
and the wicked look in his eyes
, showed that he was mad through and
through Thrice had the champion
overruled his proposition to pull ur
stakes and go East, and thrice as many
times has CoTbett declared that he
; would wait till October 31st, and take
r his opponent at his word. That date
was but a few hours off, and the pros
poets that Corbett's belief in the good
. faith of FitZsimmons would be real
i3ed was simmer than ever. When o.,
length his equanimity had been re-
stored, he said to a reporter: at is tc
be hoped that the country will under
, stand that we have acted In good faith
and with honesty from the start We
brought Corbett into the country
weeks ago, when we were under nC
compulsion to do so. and we have al
lowed him to be dragged from court to