The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-17

Ell PASO, Tex, Feb. 16.-There will be
no fight tomorrow.
That much is certain, no matter what
comes later in the week.
Makers eyes are still improving, but
he will be in no condition to enter the
ring tomorrow
Julian viii undoubtedly claim the for
felt tomorrow, but he declined today to
express any opinion as to what he would
do. Buck Connolly came in from the
Maher camp at Las Cruces today to at
tend the conference arranged yesterday
between Julian and himself His train
was late. however and Julian, in COM
mon with nearly 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. Connolly then asked him to
come over to Ell Paso and hold a con
ference tonight. Mr.. Julian had friends
invited to dinner. and dinner would be
late. He therefore, reluctantly, declined
Mr.. Connelly's kind invitation to con-
fer Some more talk ensued, but no
agreement was reached. Julian prom
Used to come over to I'll Paso at 10
O'Clock tomorrow morning and said
that he would then decide upon his
PLAN OF ACTION.
He demanded that Maher be brought
IN from Las Cruces. and that he submit
10 another examination. He is some
what fearful that Makers eyes may be
getting We'll more rapidly than reported
by friends. and that he will work in sew
eral Gays conditioning between now and
Friday Connolly objected strongly to
bringing Maher to the city, but finally
necessary
"Maher simply cannot fight Monday"
said Connolly. His eyes are better, but
he is not able to endure strong light
Julian that it would be of no use for
him to claim a forfeit for if he ATTEMPTED
it | would have Peter at the ringside
ana prevent him from getting the money.
he cannot get any money if Maher APP
pears at the ringSide. The articles say
that forfeit can only be claimed if one
of the men fails to appear. They do not
say that man must fight in order to
prevent the payment of the forfeit. If
have my man at the ringside there is no
show for Julian to get the forfeit, and
l tell you he will not get it. We will
take Maher to the ring. blind as he is,
ON claiming the forfeit. He
al the ringside and fulfilled the condt-
Continuing, Connolly said that he
would positively refuse to allow Maher r
to enter the ring in his present condi-
ton or until his eyes were well
Julian and FitZsimmons are much dis
Eusted over the outlook and have no
hesftancy in expressing their opinions.
Ihey claim to have been ready at any
time TIM during the past month, and that
the other side was not. They have en-
easements in the east for the latter part
OF February and are anxious to keep
them Whatever is the outcome of the
conference tomorrow, there is certain to
be warm time While it lasts
StuaGts confidence is still supreme.
He is doing no talking these days, but
simply replies to all questions: Il am
ready to pull off the fight any time and
ter | will be pleased
The managers of the fight are con-
fronted with
A NEW OBSTACLE
The portion of the purses subscribed bv
the citizens of Ell PaSo expires by limita-
ton tomorrow night if the fight is not off
bV that time Some of the subscriptions
that they never will be
All the small fights are declared off.
There never. has been strong probability
that they would be pulled off and Rar,
There was for time a chance of the
observation-disclosures match being brought
off. but the management refused to take
chances ON giving away the secret of
their battle-ground and everybody agrees
that one fight viii be the limit. AS only
one can be had, it was decided that the
big one should stand. The management
will pay all forfeitS on the small fights
$3.50 to each man, and the fighters are
at liberty to go home as soon as they
like ny
THE BULL FIGHT.
Nearly all of the prize fighters went
over to Juarez this afternoon to attend
the bull fights Four horses wortb
about four dollars each were gored To
death. four bulls were tortured and
slain. and the arena was covered with
blood. The MeXicans. as usual, howied
with delight at the spectacle of a horse
being ripped open, but the fighters came
back Disguised to the last degree Fitz-
simmons, Leeds, Barry, Walcott, Ever
hardt. and Dixon were there and ali of
them are still trying to figure out how
sight of the bull pen can object to prize
fighting with gloves.
F1ghtng is golf to this blooming,
bloody game, remarked Fitzsimmons, in.
wrath, after he had seen the third bun
butchered.
There are very few sporting men left
in FL Paso now. al Smith, Jimmy Wake
ly. and few others, are at Hot Strings
the others have gone home
The Olympic club of New Orleans has
wired Captain Glori, hacker of Hor-
ace Leeds. asking if he will consent to
have his man meet Everhardt in that
city. II the details are satisfactory, the
fight will be arranged Everhardt has
been slack in training for several days,
and is now much over weight Glori was
1or time disposed to claim forfeit for
Leeds, but finally let it go.
During the fight one of the horses
was disemboweled by a bull and was
galloping around the ring with his
entraiIs hanging out. Fitzsimmons.
who sat near the box of Governor
Ahumada, arose 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,
We'll" said Fitzsimmons, ASK him
if he thinks fighting with gloves is
anywher near as brutal as this bloody
thing he is looking at
The governor replied that he did not
exactly approve of killing horses, but