The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-17
LOTS OF BRUTE GORE
MeIicans Cheer Loudly the DisembOw-
cling of Dumb Animals.
BUT PRIZE FIGHTS, OH, NO
M aher and Fitzsimmons Are as Far
Apart as Ever. Possibly a Little
Farther-All Small Fry Is Off
-Corbett Makes a Speech.

Ell Paso, Feb. 16.-There will be no
fight tomorrow. That much is certain.
no matter what comes later i'm the
! week. Maher's eyes are still improving.
but he viii be in no condition to enter
the ring tomorrow. Julian will un-
doubtedly claim the forfeit tomorrow.
but he declined to-day to express an
opinion as to what he would do. Buck
Connolly came in from the Maher camp
at Las Cruces to-day to attend a con-
ference arranged yesterday between Ju-
liam and himself. Julian, in common
with about everybody else, was at the
bull fight at Juarez. Late in the day
Connolly met him and asked him to
agree to postponement until Friday.
Julian would agree to nothing. He de-
manded that Maher be brought In from
Las Cruces and submit to another ex-
animation. He is somewhat fearful
that Maher's eyes may be getting we'll
more rapidly than reported by his
friends, and that he will work in sew
eral days conditioning between now and
Friday.
"Maher simply cannot fight Monday"
said Connolly. His eyes are better.
but he is not able to endure a strong
told Julian that it would be of no use
for him to claim a forfeit, for If he at
tempted it 1 would have Peter at the
ringside and prevent him from getting
the money. He cannot get any forfeit
If Maher appears at the ringside. The
articles say that the forfeit can only be
claimed If one of the men fails to ap-
pear. They do not say that the man
in nFHnV 10
of the forfeit. If / have my man at
the ringside there is no show for Julian
to get any forfeit; and / tell you he will
not get it. We will take Maher to the
ring, blind as he is, and then refuse to
fight If Julian insists on claiming the
forfeit. He will have appeared at the
ringside and fulfilled all conditions"
Continuing, Connolly said that he
would positively refuse to allow Maher
to enter the ring in his present condi-
tion. Julian and Fitzsimmons are
much disgusted over the outlook, and
have no hesitancy in expressing their
opinions.
The managers of the fight are con-
fronted with new obstacle. The por-
tion of the purses subscribed by the
citizens of El Paso expires by limita-
tAOAA NO-iiOiiphs II lilt llBHl Is not OH
by that time. Some of the subscriptions
are unpaid, and the chances are they
never will be paid. All the small fights
have been declared or. There never
has been a strong probability that they
would be pulled off, and Barry and Dix
on stopped work this morning. The
management will pay all forfeits on
small lights, $3.50 to each man, and the
lighters are at liberty to go home as
soon as they like.
Nearly all of the prize fighters went
over 10 Juarez this afternoon to attend
the bull fights. Four horses, worth
about 80 each, were gored to death, four
bulls were tortured and slain, and the
arena was covered with blood. The
Mexicans, as usual howled with de-
light at the spectacle of a horse being
ripped open, but the fighters came back
disguised to the last degree.
During the fight one of the horses
was disemboweled by a bull and was
galloping around the ring with his en-
trails hanging out. Fitzsimmons, who
sat near the box of Governor Ahumada.
rose, and walking up to the governors
interpreter, said: ASK him how he
likes that sort of thing" The governor
replied that he saw nothing bad about
It,
well" said Fitzsimmons, TASK him
If he thinks fighting with gloves is any
where near as brutal as this bloody
thing he is looking at"
The governor replied that he did not
exactly approve of killing horses. but
would say nothing regarding the prize
ring. Fitzsimmons put several more
questions, but the governor lodged
them all, and the fighter went back TO
his seat denouncing bulls. bull fighters
and all who approved of them.