The evening times., 1895-10-05
TOO MUCH TALK KILLED IT
Corbett and Fitzsimmons the Vic
tins Of Unguarded Tongues. q
If the Dallas Affair Had Been judi.
ciously Ha ndled There Would Have
Been No Law Passed in Texas.

California was formerly Mecca for the
fighters. There Corbett fought Joe Choyn-
ski four times, and in San Francisco he
built his reputation as n really great
pugilist by fighting Peter Jackson sixty
odd rounds, the battle lasting more than
four hours and a half. California also did
away with boxing year or two ago, but
there is also every prospect of Its revival
there in the near future.
The bout between Abe Ulman. of BaltI-
more, and Kid Mccoy, of Youngstown, Ohio,
is to take place before the Baltimore
Eureka Club on Monday night. There has
been good deal of talk about this go, as
one that will test the merits of Mccoy. II
Ulfnan can put McCoy to a test of his merits
as a boxer. the Kid had better lay aside his
ring aspirations. kilrain announces that
IL Ulman wins he will tour the country with
him and stack him up against all coners.
There is great deal being said these
days about laws that will make relons and
penitentiary occupants of prize fighters.
The prize ring has been pretty busy insti-
tuition for something like 200 years. In
England and Australia and America, where
1t has tbrived the best, spaSnodic efforts
have been made to crush ID, but Ii still
flourishes. In many parts of England there
are strenuous laws against 1t, yet In the
very heart of London fights that attract
the attention OF the world occur, az they
do I'm Birmingham and other cities over
there.
In Australia the cities OF Melbourne and
Sydney have long been havens for the
pugilists In nearly every State of the
United States there are laws to prohibit
fighting, but fighting goes on in them
Massachusetts cong gratulatedtbe Governor
of Texas the other day on the heroic stand
ne had taken TO do away with prize light
Ing down there, and encouraged him by
informing him that I'm his State, Massa-
chusetts, there was n la W that sent fighters
to dungeon for ten years. On Thursday
morning Leslie Pierce, of Philadelphia.
and Martin Suee, OF Haverhill, Mass, met
in fight at Lowell, which was TO have
gone to finish, but which was declared
draw at the end of thirty rounds. because
the men were unable to go any farther.
Two weeks ago Joe Wolcott and Dick
O'Brien, who fought In Boston. were ar
rested, but the court turned them both loose.
In New Jersey on Thursday two pugs were
before court on the charge of prize fight
ing, OF w hich they were be yond doubt guilty,
but the court said they wasn't and they
were liberated. Two years ago the Legis
laturc of Louisiana made IL crime to
indulge in prize fight in that State. Two
weeks ago two pugiists fought twenty-frur
hard rounds before the famous old Olympic
Club of New Orleans, and there is every
indication that fighting will flourish there
again in the near future.
In every instance where boxing clubs have
been attacked by the law the attack has
been brought on by the brazcnness of their
promoters, and to this more than anything
else can be attributed the downfall OF the
Texas enterprise.
About every day since the Corbett and
Fitzsimmons match was made Stuart and
his partners have been defying those who
are honestly opposed to the ring, and on
every opportunity they have insuited and
angered them by branding them as a lot OF
hypocriteS and sniyelers whose worth apd
influence were OF no Importance.
They have repeatedly sent it broadcast
that even Gov. Culberson was a nonentity,
to whom no attention need be paid. Had
these people been more judicious and more
ronsiderate of the feelings and rights of
their opponents and given the Corbett and
Fitzsimmonsaffair less notoriety the chances
are it would not have been driven out Of
Dallas.