Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-06-22


two eminent pugilists and the Texas peo-
pie who are putting up for the fight were
arranged 1t is all settled and secure. The
battle will come off at Dallas October 81.
The purse will practically be $4,000. 1t is
stated as 81 900, but 5000 will be paid to
train the men. There is doubt but the
fight will be a go There is a sentiment
against the scrimmage, as there always is
against violent set encounters between
men, but the business feeling will favor
proceeding with the game. 1t is expected
that it will land 100000 in Texas, which
We'll run our brand on before it gets away.
do Corbett and Fitzsimmons want to
fight? 1 should say they did. They use
bad language whenever they hear each
others name and exhibit every proof of
rabid hostility. L spoke to Mr.. Fitzsim-
mons when l saw him in New York the
other day.
80 you are willing to fight Mr. Cor
bett" l remarked, merely to test his tenn
per
mons. Say, I'll fight him for 10 cents in
an ash barrel. That's how bad L want to
get at Corbett.'
II regarded this as satisfactory, and told
Mr.. FitZsmmons so. He followed these
assurances with perfect freshet of pro-
family, which he meant, no doubt, for
make weight AID to add to the general
proof touching his hostility to Mr.. Corbett
However, IL wasn't needed l could see he
abhorred Mr.. Corbett and thirsted to pull
verize him.
Worries the Corbett People.
This Mr.. Fltzsimmons has the Corbett
people more less scared. They think
Mr.. Corbett will put him out, but their
confidence doesn't soar beyond 100 to 81
on Mr. Corbett which would not repre-
sent the difference in their weights. 1 took
good look at Mr.. Fltzsimmons when he
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Rrady and the other Corbett folk. 1 wait
ed until Mr.. FitZsimmons had turned his
attention to something else, for l didn't
want to embarrass him, and then 1 sat
down and looked at him for ten minutes
He is as narrow between the eyes as a
knife. His head is about the size-maybe
trifie bigger-of marrowfat pea. All
he knows is fight. Those who love him
best describe him of narrow and sus-
picious nature, with a profound natural
taste for punching the heads of his fellow
men. They say that he's as irritable as
Welt If stranger goes near him he bris-
ties like cur dog and growls from in
stinct. But you can pet him down and
gain his confidence. Once you gain his
confidence you can beat him with a club,
albeit l saw none of Mr.. Fitzsimmons'
confidants VINO had actually done so. Pos
sibly it was metaphor.
After the preliminares were arranged
ana papers signed Mr.. Dan Stewart, who
handles the Texas end of the negotiations,
asked Mr.. Fitzsmmons where he wanted
II train. That parsonage expressed a wish
to train at Galvest ton.
"'All right said Stewart. I'll rent you
a house there and fix you up all right.
Who do you want to train YOU?
'Nubbudy,' replied Mr.. FftZsimmons.
TIL train meself 1 get up without
calling and run forty miles day, and
take me baths and pU0ch the bag. l knows
what to eat and WI t to drink, and what
to 10. and don't want nubbudy to train
me-
Modest Fitzsimmons.
II don't care whether l has seconds or
no. replied Mr.. Fitzsimmons. If you peo-
ple'n give me a couple of black men in
me corner of the ring at the time of the fight
with towels to rub me between rounds and
to carry me off if this sucker does lhc, it'll
be all I'll awsk.'
Now. [ take it that this fashion of talk
exhibits great hostility to Mr.. Corbett on
the part of Mr. Fitzsimmons, and it very
much fosters my confidence that the bat
lie VIII come off. This gentleman Stewart,
who has affairs in charge for Texas means
thorough. straightforward business. He is
Vermont man, transplanted TO he genial
soil of Texas at an early age, and now COM
bineS all of the cool, steady saSaciJy of
the Yankee with that romantic ardor of the
native Texan which aids to pull eff a
scheme, once it is proposed"
Il know this gentleman Stewart" re-
marked Capt. Wyle of Galveston, intre-
rupting Mr.. Sterrett. Hes a deadgame
game call thousand-dollar raise on a
pair of aces against pat hand; he won,
too; there was nothing in the pat hand.
1t was a cold bluff. That's the way Stew
art sized il up but it showed he had nerve
with him. Calling thousand-doilar tilt
on pair of aces would start the sweat
on heap of folks who think they are able
to protect themselves at poker"
THAT is true conceded Mr. Sterrett, as
Capt. Wylie ceased. Il know nothing Of
the device called poker beyond what I've
tfaIT tU-F
but L nCede from what / myself am
aware of that to call a pat hand for a
thousand dollars on pair of aces would
require great vigor of thought and point to
the possession of deep Intelligence But TO
return to Corbett and Fitzsimmons:.
Jealous of Dallas.
There IS only one chance to face In pull
ing off the proposed fight, and that is the
narrow jealousy of Galveston and San An
ter 10. This latter camp can't say much
frcm moral point. because aside from the
Alamo, where Crockett, Bowie and Travic
died, San Antonio's chief boast Is that she
once had fight between lion and bull.
To my opinion it was an excessively Cheap
John affair. Bulls are by no means a luxu-
~ in Texas. They are within the reach of
the most humble purse. Lions are not so
rife; but this particular animal was back
Number, job lot lion that the San Antonio
sports had picked up a some fire sale, and
cat. But San Antonio always tells stran-
gers about her terrific combat between The
Pride of the Pampas, meaning the bull,
and the Jungle Monarch meaning the lion
She has Dragged about that fight and put
1t all over Dallas for years on account of
1t; and accus I'd the Dallas people of being
too mean and parsimonious. too short on
public spirit, to buy lion and have a
scrap.
las for Galveston. which the natives call
Galveston she isn't in any better shape
to make a kick than San Antonio. Any
body would know it was mean envy on the
part q either.
Galveston has on two occasions owned
boxers of her own and printed columns
touching their proves. The first was a
person named Al. Marx. He loaded cotton
aboard boats and thought he could fight.
The Galveston people led him to this view
by ill-adviSed adulation. One day Sullivan
AID his combination made a knockout tour
of the country. At Galveston Pat Sheedy
In modest, lowly way, the same he turns
faro with, came to the front of the stage
ard said that Mr.. Sullivan would be so
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