The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-22
IT WILL NOT COME OFF
THERE Will he NO FIGHT BE
TWEEN CORBETC AND
FITZSIMMONS.
UNLESS IT BE AN IMPR0MPTU ONE

COrbett Wants TO Fight but FItz,Im.
mons Doesn't--The COrnlshman Has
Accomplished what Gov. Clarke
Failed to Do-.rhe Athletic Club has
Declared the Fight Gff.-COrbett In
dulges in Some Cgly Talk About Ills
OppOnent--StuaTt sked for Time.
HoT SPRINGS, Ark, Oct 2t.-There
will be no contest between COIbettt and
Fitzsimmons unless it be an impromptu
one, shcrn of purse offerings, ring rules,
referee and seconds, for Ccr0ett says
that unless FitzsimmOns acts the man
and accommodates himself to circum-
stances he will send him to q hospital
the first time he meets him and he will
go quite away cut of his scheduled thea
trical route to meet the attenuated
Cornishmau. What Gov. Clarke has
been making such a display st doing,
Fitzsimons has done easily and without
much flourish Of trumpets TIE Florida
Athletic Club, at 1890 o'clock declared
the contest between James J. C9rbett
and Robert Fitzsimmons off.
Martin Julian, Fits mmODs' manager,
| refused to agree to the postponement Of
| the date, as desired blythe club. He said
FitzsimmOns had trained to fight OctO-
Der 3lst, ard was unwilling to train two
weeks longer, moreover, FitzSimmons
had contracted to fight Corbett to a
finish and he was unwilling to change
the programme to boxing match for
points. The proposition was then made
10 have the m n fight in private for the
| main stake, so 900 a side. Here Stuart
| iuterje cted an offer of an added $40, goo.
| Brady was again willing but Julian de
INJURED His opinion that the club, if
it pulled the fight eff on the 31st of Oc
toDer, would have to make good its full
promise of $41 900.
In all equity, in the face Of the entan-
| clements which have beset the path of
Dan Stuart and Joe Vendig, this cannot
be dooe. Where month ago hundreds
of excursion parties were being organ
| lied to 90 to the fght, there are none
| to day. Stuart asked for time. Corbett
granted it, FitzsimmOns has exacted his
| full pound of flesh. AS matters stand at
this moment, to use the words of Howard
B. Hackett, the highest pugilistic author
| Try in America, Oorbett wants to fight,
| Fitzsimm0ns does not
1t is given out that Julian will have
Fitzsimmons in Dallas on the 3lst,
where the contract stipulates the fight
shall occur, anu claim the forfeit Of
50, 500.
This is the latest status of the case and
the most decisive Knockout in the whole
proceedings. Any amount of disgust
and disappointment is visible on all sides
over the turn affairs have taken.
7. @ programme low is to substitute
Peter Maher for FitzsimmOns in a con
test with Corbett, and another man TO
be found will be depended en- to enter
tain Steve ODJnnell.
Jimmy Barry ard Jack Madden.
MAsPETH, N. Y, Oct. 21.-Jimmy
Barry completely -classeis Jack Mad
den in their bout in the Empire Athletic
Club arena tonight and was awarded
the decisin II in the fourth round although
the fight was to have been twenty
rounds. There was preliminary affair,
a ten-rOund bout at catch weights be
tween Jimmy Handler and Harry
Fisher
Handler was knocked down twice but
Fishers strength saved him once from a
knock out and the decision was draw.