Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-03
cABELL IN THE RING.
THE SHERIFF, WITH A POSSE, AR
%5ar THE FIGHTERS, REF
e,$.sE AND aANAGER.
1t Is Under. hint HaSea. corpu.
Proceeding. III BE Instituted
at Once.

Dallas, Tex. Sept. 2.-(speciai.)-
This afternoon the Dallas Athletic
club rendered Tax Collector Jacoby
S9OO for license to pull off glove exit
bltion to take place this evening be-
tween Jess Clark. former boxing in
structor in the Pacific club In San
Francisco, and Tom Cavanaugh, the
Well-known welter-weight. formerly OF
Bunalo, n. Y, at the clubs headuuar-
tiers, 40i Main street.
Collector Jacoby explained that he
would very willingly make out the IL
cense, but he had no blank; in fact no
plank had ever been printed for that
Kind of license. He then turned to
the law which In substance says that
any collector shall give a>nanuscript
or any other species OF receipt for taxes
except the regular blank furnished by
the comptroller, such collector shall
De guilty Of u misdemeanor and on
conviction fined from 800 to $500, and
may be dismissed from office
Manager Bates said he had done his
part. and If the Comptroller had failed
10 FURNISH the blanks 1t was his own
look out.
The gnoney was rendered by Fred
Hubbell of Galveston, hacker OF Tom
Cavanaugh. After the refusal to issue
a license Manager Bates announced
that the men would fight tonight per
announcement and take the conse-
quences
One thousand persons gathered Mt the
Dallas Athletic club arena tonight to
witness the Cavanaugh-Clark fight to a
finish. Manager j. ]. Bates was chosen
referee. AT $3.50 the men shook hands
and time was called. 1t was a hot
match from the start, but more OF a
scientific match than a hammer and
tongs set-to. At the close of the TWEEN
tN-gprnul round Ghaplff VI
posse of deputies entered the arena
and stopped the fight. Referee Bates
declared II draw. Cavanaugh and
Clark and their seconds and the ref
cree and manager were placed under
arrest. Bates gave bond and the 9TH
ers were jailed. Cavanaugh and Clark
have engaged Robert Il. Cowart and j.
X. ICELAND to defend them and 1t Is
understood that habeas corpus pro-
oeedings win be instituted.
On the first Monday in July Judge
Charles p. Clint opened the July term
of the annual district court empounded
the jury and adjourned to today. The
Judge and the jury were on hand at 10
o'clock when the court proceeded TO
charge the jury. With the exception
of the two or three Immediately fore
going Jures Judge Clint said he had
never failed to change with reference
to prize-flghting. For a long time se
said 1t was notorious that the to'Sl
was full of the lowest grade OF monkey
mugged sluggers and that prize fights
were boldly advertised and of nightly
occurrence but no indictments we're
ever returned against any Of these
people, for the reason, he presumes,
that there is no law against prize
fighting.
Judge Clint then referred to the ex-
hibition of the manly art TO be given
by Corbett and Fltzsimmons, and said
he wished the jury to be conservative
and prudent in reference thereto. adj
ding that there were those who re-
garded II as a manly art and to be en-
while others were very much
prejudiced agaist 1t and called II a
relic of barbarlsm, but that 1t was not
for the jury to take sides, or let their
carry them away. The law
is what they are to look to. Judge
clint said he understood a test case
was to be taken into the courts In the
next few days. when 1t would be de-
cided whether there is any law against
the event, and that this decision would |
be handed down In ample time for the |
Jury. II, he went on to say, the jury |
should become satisfied that there Is
a law agaist such exhibitions as Is pro-
posed to be given by Corbett and Fitz-
simmons and that such law has been |
then IT will be the duty of |
the jury to return bills of indictments
against the Offenders But in the
meantime he counselled the jury to
await the action OF the courts.
At the ministers meeting today Rev. |
]. irving Carroll OF the Congregational |
church intimated that the preachers
were wrong when they appealed 10
officers to suppress glove contests and
other Objectionable and worldly pur-
suits. In his opinion the teachings OF
Jesus Christ never appealed to the
law TO aid Him. This created red
moi row, and finally the ministers al
lance adjourned without taking addi-
tIonal action. Rev Carroll does not
believe in ministers plunging head
first into every issue that comes to
the surface